Warm Barley Salad with Grilled Veggies is a hearty pantry clean out dish that is delicious for lunch or dinner side dish! These days we all seem to be digging a little deeper in our pantry and I am no exception. Long days at home and no good reason to leave have me going through all of those ingredients that I have bought in the past with good intentions, but never ...
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Ginger Peach Barbecued Chicken Legs
A classic chicken leg is the perfect food for summer grilling. Coat your next legs in delicious ginger-peach glaze and rock your next grill-out! There are few dishes as well suited to the sport of “grilling” than a barbecued chicken leg. This affordable and abundant cut of poultry is loved by children and adults alike, with it’s built in handle for easy ...
Grilled Spinach & Mushroom Stuffed Pork Tenderloin
My husband of 14 years works weird hours. Sometimes he doesn’t leave for work until after lunch, other times he is gone before sunrise. His days off are rarely in a row and almost never on weekends and when he is home, we try to let the poor man sleep. This is no easy task in a house with two kids, a needy cat, a smelly dog, and a wife who likes to get up early and make her ...
Black and Blue Steak Salad
Black and Blue Steak Salad is a hearty dinner salad full of savory steak and cool homemade blue cheese dressing perfect for light summer dinners. Salads are…not always my favorite thing to eat, but now that summer is here and a strong urge to eat more vegetables with it, I find myself eating a lot more salad. The tough part with any kind of dinner salad is that sometimes ...
Grilled Lemon Garlic Butter Salmon Kebabs
Now that Spring has finally decided to show up, our grill is in full swing (and it goes great with dinner al fresco on the brand new deck!). Grilling season is something that we look forward to every year and since this season was a little late to start we are going gangbusters on it now. I’ll be honest, manning the grill isn’t my greatest skill. I can do it and I ...
Bacon Queso Stuffed Burgers
Bacon Queso Stuffed Burgers are a deliciously different variation on a the classic American burger. Fresh and creamy queso fresco and salty bacon are at the center of an all-beef patty that is just waiting to ooze at first bite. The all-American burger has really become part of the psyche of the country. Probably more American than apple pie and only slightly less ...
Hot Dog Toppings 5 Ways
Turn up your next backyard cookout with these Hot Dog Toppings 5 Ways. Enjoy them individually, or combine these hot dog toppings in endlessly delicious variations. It only takes about an hour to make all 5 of these, and you can even prep these the day before if you like. Sure, the kids will only want ketchup on theirs, but the adults at the party will appreciate these hot dog ...
Grilled Maple Bacon Pork Tenderloin
Grilled and bacon wrapped, this Grilled Maple Bacon Pork Tenderloin looks as good as it tastes. The glaze is simple and comes together before your coals can get hot, and it also doubles as a sauce for the pork. The bacon weave is the icing on the cake here, completely over the top and unnecessary but for the sheer beauty of it all. This might be the prettiest thing to come off ...
Broiled Flank Steak with Red Onion Marmalade
Broiled Flank Steak with Red Onion Marmalade is an easy a fast dinner dish. It's a great weeknight dinner or company dish! Flank steak with a sweet/sour red onion marmalade is an excellent recipe! I don't know if you knew this about me or not...but I cook a lot. And in cooking a lot, there are not a lot of dishes that I make more than once or twice. I just don't have that ...
Saucy Barbecued Chicken Wings
Ladies and gentlemen, I need you to pray for us. I need you to pray that we don’t run out of food or money during the next several years of feeding the bottomless pit that has become my son. I’m not sure when it happened, or who flipped the switch that turned my sweet baby boy into an eating machine but I feel that there is no going back. There haven’t ...
Grilled Ribeye Steaks with Blue Cheese Butter
I would venture to say that most hard-working Dads out there don’t get all of the credit they deserve. I mean, they go to work every day to provide for their families only to be tackled by their children as soon as they walk through the door and commanded to then proceed to be the most entertaining toy in the room. My husband in particular must perform the duties of “the fun ...
Pineapple Ginger Pork Kabobs
Pineapple Ginger Pork Kabobs is a wonderful recipe for a grilled dinner! The sweetness of the pineapple pairs perfectly with juicy pork! With the weather finally nice enough to be outside, at our house, it is time to fire up the grill! Besides the usual hamburgers, steaks, and hot dogs, kebabs are an affordable dinner option that works well with just about any kind of meat. ...
Spicy Southwest Salad with Creamy Cilantro Dressing
Spicy Southwest Salad with Creamy Cilantro Dressing is a quick and easy dinner salad to whip up from the contents of your kitchen.Make it a healthy lunch or dinner! Happy New Year!! 2013 has arrived despite all of the Mayan prophecies and many people are making all of the usual promises to themselves. I don't know why we feel compelled to make all of these changes on the ...
Blue Cheese Stuffed Burgers with Red Onion Marmalade
Memorial Day weekend for many is the rope drop for Summer. I don't even have to look at the calendar to know when Memorial day weekend is, I can tell it's close by the throngs of cars parked on the side of the road by the creek just above me. Come Memorial Day, screams of terror followed by a loud splash fill my yard as teenager after teenager jump off J.H. Barber bridge. And ...
Asian Marinated Flank Steak and Bok Choy
The beginning and the end of the growing season can sometimes be challenging for those who are intimidated by green stuff. Fall and Spring veggies are nothing but green. Fall veggies are slightly more varied with the appearance of winter squashes and pumpkins, but this late in the season lettuces, cabbages, spinach, and greens make up the majority of any CSA basket in the ...