Confetti couscous and vegetables.
If you’re fatigued by lousy pasta salad drowning in dressing, soggy potato salad or other sad, sad side dishes, give this vibrant and full-flavored side a try. Perfect with grilled chicken, fish, even BBQ.
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Farro and summer vegetable salad.
This healthy summer salad is a wonderful way to use the season’s best ingredients: corn, tomatoes and basil (mozzarella, too!)
Peach crumb-top bars.
Here’s a wonderful summer dessert, great for a crowd for your July 4 bash. This crumb-topped peach streusel bar is buttery, easy and stores beautifully. A real winner! Get the recipe!
Pan pizza with zucchini and cheddar.
Sounds a bit unconventional, but trust me: it’s awesome. Perfect for supper on a busy night. And so easy, especially if you have pizza dough on hand in the freezer, which I totally advocate.
Truck stop corn chowder.
I mean, c’mon: Who wouldn’t love a recipe called Truck Stop Corn Chowder? This recipe, which I presume my Grandmother Dorothy clipped from the Indianapolis Star and stashed in her recipe file, is a real winner.
Seasonal vegetable gratin.
This recipe is a take on traditional succotash—the combination of beans and corn—and it calls for both green beans and shelled beans like limas or favas. A great vegetarian main or hearty side for grilled meat.
Spinach frittata with fresh herbs.
Spring’s finest ingredients — farm-fresh eggs, spring greens and tender herbs — come together in this beautiful frittata recipe. Great Meatless Monday dinner option with fat slices of buttered toast and a glass of white wine.
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 …
Super versatile herbed orzo salad.
You’ve had what I call “sad pasta salad” — that takeout deli stuff with corkscrew pasta and way too much bottled Italian dressing. This pasta salad is NOT sad pasta salad! It’s the only pasta salad recipe you need.
