salad

Succotash salad screams summer. This colorful, light, and fresh salad is full of vegetables like corn, Lima beans, scallions, and cherry tomatoes. Pickled okra does double duty for our succotash salad providing a nice crunch to the salad, but also making a briny and delicious vinaigrette that brings it all together. What is succotash?  Have you ever eaten succotash or even heard of it? Succotash is a side dish that’s made from a blend of cooked corn and lima beans.…

Colorful, crunchy and fresh, this deliciously easy Old Fashioned Kidney Bean Salad makes a perfect cold side dish and takes just a few minutes to make. This easy bean salad has such a fond place in my memories. When I was a little girl you could be certain you’d find a bowl of this tangy, crunchy cold salad at the little country church potlucks I attended with my grandma. Check out my other church potluck favorites:  Layered Cornbread Salad Slow…

Apple coleslaw is crisp and crunchy with fresh apples, celery and cabbage and topped with a tangy homemade poppy seed dressing. I’m assuming that you’ve probably brushed off the barbecue grill and pulled it out of storage, because from the smells I’ve been smelling on my evening walks…all my neighbors have been grilling. We’ve been grilling too, which for me means it’s time to bust out my easy summer side dishes and salads. Today I have a really simple and…

Layered cornbread salad is so bright and colorful. Fresh veggies are layered high with cornbread, cheese and ranch dressing. It’s crunchy, creamy, savory, and with the cornbread, just a hint of sweet as well for a combination that can’t be beat. The first time I ever heard of cornbread salad I was pretty sure it was something that Missouri corn farming wives had made up just because they had an abundance of corn! This salad is a rural church dinner…

This Frito chili cheese corn salad couldn’t be easier, or more delicious! Crisp veggies, crunchy Fritos corn chips, cheddar cheese and a zippy creamy dressing. After this week, we’ll officially be on summer time so it’s time to let loose and relax a bit. Enjoy the slower pace of life. Maybe fire up the grill and have some friends or family over.  And I’ve got the perfect recipe for a get together like that. This Fritos chili cheese corn salad…

Cool and creamy. Spicy and fresh. This Sriracha Shrimp Pasta Salad is an easy make ahead main dish loaded with colorful crisp veggies, shrimp, and a bold sriracha dressing. I started this blog just over a year ago. If you’re familiar with my story, then you probably know that I started blogging because I was at a low point in my life. I’d recently lost a part of my identity, after being a stay at home for 15 years my…

These harvest turkey salad pitas combine turkey, fresh spinach, apples, pecans, tangy feta, tart cranberries, and red onions with the easiest homemade raspberry vinaigrette. Stuffed into pitas this fresh take on your leftovers that will have dinner on the table in less than 15 minutes. Hey, that’s something to be thankful about! I will get to the recipe, I will, and if you want to skip down to it that’s fine. But first I have to tell you this week…

I don’t know about you, but I’ve seen so many Facebook posts, and blog posts that are all like, “we went on vacation to this beautiful lush, tropical locale and I drank all these fun fruity little cocktails with umbrellas’ and I liked them so much that when I came home I had to make my own version.” And then I’m over here like, uh I went to Wal-mart and bought raisin bran, and I was really good, I even…

As I said on AHB’s Facebook page, today I am sharing some lighter fare, Chicken Parmesan Salad. I have been a yo-yo this week. Up and then down, then back up again. You get the idea. I couldn’t do my post on Monday like I’d planned because my daughter’s eyeglasses broke last weekend and she’s blind without them. We spent most of Monday morning trying to get into the eye doctor and then a few hours there at the office…