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BLT Bruschetta Recipe | Great Game Day Appetizer!

August 3, 2017 by Mindi Cherry

This BLT Bruschetta recipe is the perfect snack for game day. Bacon, lettuce and tomato mixed with a tangy sauce sit atop toasted ciabatta bread…or you can even just eat it as a delicious salad! We do a lot of entertaining during football season and it is usually the same 5 or 6 people/couples.  Because…

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Easy Watermelon Salsa Recipe

May 27, 2017 by Mindi Cherry

Try this easy watermelon salsa recipe and you will be hooked. It’s great served with pita chips or you can just grab a fork and dig in! Oh – how I love summer!  My tomato plants are starting to bear fruit, my daughter’s watermelon plant is FINALLY starting to grow (this is the first year…

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Sesame Noodles with Chicken | Delicious Warm or Cold!

April 22, 2017 by Mindi Cherry

These sesame noodles with chicken are so easy to make and can easily be tweaked to suit your family. They are delicious hot, warm or cold! My mother makes the most amazing sesame noodles with chicken – really better than I have ever tasted in any Chinese restaurant.  It is one of her go-to recipes…

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Creamy Poppy Seed Dressing | My Absolute Favorite Salad Dressing Ever!

February 25, 2017 by Mindi Cherry

This creamy poppy seed dressing recipe is the perfect mix of tangy and sweet. I have yet to find a salad that doesn’t taste better with this dressing! The weather is heating up and if you are like me, you find yourself eating more and more salads!  I have been making this salad dressing almost…

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Creamy Cilantro Lime Dressing

February 11, 2017 by Mindi Cherry

This creamy cilantro lime dressing can be used as a dressing for salads or as a light sauce for meats. It's absolutely delicious drizzled over fish tacos!

This creamy cilantro lime dressing can be used as a dressing for salads or as a light sauce for meats. It’s absolutely delicious drizzled over my blackened fish tacos! With the weather being so unseasonably warm recently, I have been thinking about salads more and more. Soon I will be planting my herb garden and…

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Harvest Chicken Salad Recipe

November 4, 2016 by Mindi Cherry

This chicken salad recipe is like a flavor and texture explosion. With cranberries, smoky bacon, blue cheese and pecans, it is sure to be a favorite! As much as I hate to say this, I never likes my mothers chicken salad recipe when I was young. Everyone else loved it, but I didn’t. I think…

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Quinoa and Mango Salad With Edamame

June 4, 2016 by Mindi Cherry

If you need a side dish to take to a picnic this weekend, or even just an easy salad to make for lunch, you are going to love this quinoa with mango salad and edamame.  It is just so easy to make and is absolutely delicious!

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Easy Pomegranate Balsamic Vinaigrette Salad Dressing

July 28, 2015 by Mindi Cherry

One of my favorite things about the summer is the it is so much easier to “eat lighter”. When the weather is warmer, you really don’t WANT to eat anything heavy so a salad becomes a perfect meal! My favorite salad dressing is still my creamy poppy seed dressing, but sometimes you just want something…

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Eating From Your Garden – Spinach Recipes

May 23, 2015 by Mindi Cherry

Are you planting spinach this year?  Spinach grows so fast that you are going to need to have plenty of recipes to use it.  After all – what is the point of growing it if it is just going to go bad on the vine? For the next few weeks, we will be exploring all…

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Spinach Salad with Orange Balsamic Vinaigrette Recipe

January 1, 2015 by Mindi Cherry

Remember when I said that, once you made my homemade blue cheese dressing recipe that you would never buy it at the store again? Well, the same goes for this balsamic vinaigrette recipe!  The addition of orange juice concentrate and a touch of honey gives you just enough sweetness, yet still manages the calorie count…

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Broccoli Salad with Bacon Recipe

December 27, 2014 by Mindi Cherry

Come to any party at my house (and anyone in my family’s house) and there is one thing that is guaranteed to be on the table – Broccoli Salad with Bacon! We serve it at barbecues, as a side dish at Thanksgiving and Easter and just about any family gathering. We go to Indiana to…

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Strawberry, Walnut and Spinach Salad with Homemade Dressing

November 16, 2014 by Mindi Cherry

You know how we talked the other day about how to grow your own strawberries? Well, my strawberries are already coming in (just picked a few off this morning – delicious!) and this Strawberry, Walnut and Spinach Salad is sure to be on my lunch menu all summer long! The best part about the dressing…

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