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Share Your Favorite Summer Recipe
Kaesha's summer menu help post got me craving one of my all time favorite pasta salad's and I would love to share the recipe with all of you! Do you have a summertime favorite? Dessert, salad, marinade, appetizer, anything you enjoy making and serving during the summer... I'll start with:
Eclaire?s Orzo Pasta Salad
1 box orzo pasta
1 sm red onion diced
1 sm jar sundried tomatoes packed in oil, julienne cut ? lightly drain before adding to salad
1 jar artichoke hearts, drained and sliced
1 pkg tomato/basil feta cheese (sometimes called Mediterranean)
1 pkg baby spinach leaves, keep whole
12 fresh basil leaves, cut into small pieces
Girard?s Light Champagne dressing.
Optional ? diced chicken breast or shredded chicken
Cook orzo,drain. Rinse orzo, let soak for 30 mins, rinse and drain again. Fluff orzo. Put orzo in Ziploc bag, add 1 cup dressing and refrigerate for a couple hours or overnight. Put pasta in large bowl, add everything else just before serving, fold all together and add more dressing if you like.
Re: Share Your Favorite Summer Recipe
This is truly the BEST lemonade ever! Don't shortcut and just mix the sugar and water together instead of making the simple sugar (by boiling the sugar and water together). It is absolutely delicious and refreshing!
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Best-Lemonade-Ever/Detail.aspx
1 Hamilton Beach Commercial Blender
1/2 full of frozen strawberries
1/2 container Hagen Dazs Mango
http://www.haagen-dazs.com/products/product.aspx?id=3
2-5 oz. Bacardi or good vodka (blitz vs flavor factor)
Odwall Mango Tango (fill until blender is 2/3 full with liquid)
1/2 cup whole organic milk (we like Horizon... if you don't have it, any milk or vanilla ice cream will do)
Fire up the blender on high for 1 minute. Stir. On. Off. Stir. High for another minute. Low while you pull out the glasses and straws. Pour and garnish.
Newlyweds since 2007
ooh, great idea! can't wait to see all the suggestions
i make this corn and tomato salad *all* the time in the summer. it's super easy and yummy.
I have a really simple marinade for veggies on the grill. I basically slice up peppers and zucchini, drizzle them with soy, balsamic vinegar, and sesame oil, marinade for a few hours, and then grill until they get marks on them.
I also make a noodle salad using rice noodles (the skinny kind) or vermicelli.
Cook noodles according to package. Drain, and toss with a little sesame oil to prevent them from clumping.
Thinly julienne peppers, cucumbers, and carrots and toss with noodles so that they are well-mixed.
Make a dressing with 1/4 cup of soy, juice of 1 large lemon, 1 tbsp of sesame oil. If you like it spicy, you can add dried chili flakes and 1 tsp or so of chili oil. I usually leave the dressing for ppl to spoon on themselves b/c the noodles and veggies get mushy very quickly if they sit in the dressing for a while.
*to change it up a bit, you can sub the lemon for 2 limes and add some fish sauce and sub crushed, roasted peanuts for the sesame seeds. Extra garnish could be mint and cilantro leaves.
**you could also add shredded meat or strips of tofu to make it more meal-esque.
***for ginger fanatics, you can add 1 tbsp of grated ginger to the dressing.
OMG yes, I've made this recipe and it's sooooo good! The simple syrup definitely makes it.
Alyson & Phil | Planning Bio | Married Bio!
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I love to just slice up summer fruit (strawberries, peaches, nectarines, etc.) into a bowl and eat it. YUM!
When it's super hot I'll make a cucumber salad with sliced cucumbers and sour cream and a little salt and pepper...so refreshing!
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Emeril's Cold Noodle Salad
Directions
In a small bowl, whisk together honey, soy sauce and sesame oil. To the noodles, add green onions, bean sprouts, carrots, cucumber, cashews, cilantro, sesame seeds, and the soy mixture and mix thoroughly.
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Corn Saute
Vermont Burgers - but just do the turkey ones!
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strawberry shortcake
blueberry sour cream ice cream
love this salsa
I also just made strawberry sour cream ice cream and it's sooo good. need to post to my blog soon but here's the recipe
Strawberry Sour Cream Ice Cream
from The Perfect Scoop
by David Lebovitz
Makes about 1 1/4 quarts
1 pound fresh strawberries, rinsed and hulled
3/4 c. sugar
1 tbsp. vodka or kirsch (I used vodka)
1 c. sour cream
1 c. heavy cream
1/2 tsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice
Slice the strawberries and toss them in a bowl with the sugar and vodka or kirsch. Stir until the sugar begins to dissolve. Let stand at room temperature for 1 hour, stirring every so often.
Pulse the strawberries and their liquid with the sour cream, heavy cream and lemon juice in a blender or food processor until almost smooth, but still slightly chunky.
Freeze in your ice cream maker according to the manufacturer?s instructions.
I made this tomato and cucumber salad and it's really good!
Jaime & Brent
Oahu, Hawaii | Sept. 9, 2005
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