Summer

All the classic flavors of the famous dish, Chicken Cordon Bleu Pasta is pure, tasty comfort food, topped with a creamy, cheesy Dijon sauce.

A beautiful party punch for a crowd! Fruity and effervescent, it goes with all types of foods and party atmospheres, from cozy holiday gatherings to cookouts and birthday parties.

Corn Chowder gets super-charged with wood-smoked corn and chile peppers, and a fragrant homemade corn stock.

Fresh, local corn, wood-smoked on the grill, creates an deeply flavored corn stock that’s perfect to use in corn chowder, vegetable soup, and even risotto.

We’re nearly to the peak of tomato season, and if you’re enjoying daily tomato salads, you’re doing summer eating right!

Celebrate summer’s fresh bounty with a perfectly seasoned, veggie-stuffed, beef fajita salad, topped with a light and creamy, Tex-Mex-inspired salsa dressing.

The color of sunshine and powered with healthy vegetables, this superfood soup is super easy to get to the table, and filled with flavors your family will love and ingredients you’ll feel great about serving.

A super easy, all-season weeknight meal, turkey sloppy joes are a gently spiced, healthed-up version of the classic sandwich favorite!

Get the grilling season off to a crowd-pleasing start with grilled chicken sausage naan pizzas with basil pesto and fresh mozzarella – so easy to prepare grill-side, whether for a holiday party or a weeknight gathering with friends! This post is sponsored by Coca-Cola®. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Rich, meaty, cremini mushrooms sauteed in butter with a sweet balsamic glaze, and served over tarragon-accented rice, balsamic mushrooms with tarragon rice are weeknight easy but weekend decadent!

A simple way to create breakfast or brunch with hash browns, sausage, and eggs. Crispy sheet pan hash browns bake up in the oven, hands-off – pan to table in under an hour!

A crowd-pleasin’, all-season dish that’s easy to prepare and absolutely craveable. The saffron-scented socarrat is the highlight of paella, of course, so serve with your favorite veggies and create a meal all will love!

The perfect party snack, game day snack, after school snack, or I-just-need-a-salty-snack snack, homemade Cheez-its are so addictive and cheesy and delicious, you’ll want to make a double batch!

Preserving summer’s amazing heirloom tomatoes this month? Don’t toss those beautiful, flavor-rich tomato skins! Instead, use them to make homemade heirloom tomato salt with freshly dried basil.

A fun fusion of the Italian and Mexican favorites: black beans and vegetables in a savory enchilada sauce, spooned into XXL pasta shells. Stuffed pasta shells are da bomb!

The perfect dish to bring to picnics, potlucks, grill-outs — all your summer gatherings. This vegetable-loaded tortellini salad with homemade buttermilk dill dressing is an easy weeknight meal, too!

Avocado and bread never tasted so good! The secret is fried bread — not just toasted! — which produces a crispy crust with a tender inside. Top avocado fried toast with a yolky poached egg, and lunch is in the bag!

This super easy weeknight meal comes together in under 30 minutes. Loaded with veggies and a richly flavorful refried black bean salsa sauce, vegetarian Mexican pizza will be your go-to dinner all summer long.