recipe for roast chicken salad with seasonal vegetables

Roast chicken and seasonal vegetable salad.

This super easy main-dish salad is going to be in our weekly dinner rotation pretty much any time. This is kind of a no-recipe recipe: steam a bunch of seasonal veg, toss with a stupid-simple garlicky lemon dressing and add some shredded cooked chicken. Make it your own …

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summer vegetable casserole with cheesy breadcrumb topping recipe | writes4food.com

Summer vegetable gratin.

This Summer Vegetable Casserole recipe is the perfect summer-to-fall transition dish, to make while summer produce is still abundant and the weather cools off enough to where you’re OK with the idea of using the oven to make dinner. We love it as a main dish with a sliced tomato salad, but it’s also a great side for grilled chicken or steak. Get the recipe on writes4food.com!

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Arugula green garlic pesto.

A glut of overgrown arugula in my garden — combined with some beautiful green garlic I scored at the farmers’ market — went into a big batch of spring arugula and garlic pesto this week. It’s fantastic over pasta, or as a condiment for grilled Italian sausages and new potatoes. Get the recipe!

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arugula garlic scape pesto recipe | writes4food.com

Garlic scape-arugula pesto.

Wondering what to do with garlic scapes while they’re still in season? Try this arugula-garlic scape pesto recipe; you can freeze the pesto to enjoy later.

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best chocolate chip bar cookies EVER | writes4food.com

Recent favorites.

Looking for a new chocolate chip cookie recipe to try? Perhaps a new favorite salad or pasta recipe? Here’s a roundup of my very favorite recipes from recent weeks.

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What to do with garlic scapes.

I’ve spotted them—in my own garden and at farmers’ markets—just in the last week: Garlic scapes. Hooray! What is a garlic scape, you ask? The scape is the little curlicue sprout that shoots from the top …

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