Chicken Pasta Salad

By incorporating the meat and other ingredients into one Chicken Noodle Salad, we've created a simple all-in-one meal. | KitchenDreaming.com |

Chicken Pasta salad is an incredibly versatile summer dish. Creamy and delicious, it’s portable for picnics and potlucks and easy to prepare. We actually prepare pasta salads all year long. You can start this dish with baked, broiled, grilled, or smoked chicken. If you want to use up a leftover …

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Bacon Date Blondies

This simple, easy to follow recipe for Bacon Date Blondies yields a moist, chewy bar that is simply delicious.

These whole grain blondies are my new go to recipe which I found in Eating Well Magazine, May/June 2015 issue. These are made with whole wheat flour but all-purpose can easily be substituted if you prefer.  These contain half the calories of a traditional blondie since they use less butter and 30% less sugar but believe me when I say you will never miss it. The best part is that these can be customized any way you’d like. Change out the add-ins and the combinations are endless.

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Spicy Barbecue Sauce

Spicy BBQ Sauce 680

One of my favorite bottled sauces is a spicy barbecue sauce. It isn’t ideal for all types of barbecue but I find it to be absolutely delicious. This recipe starts off with our Basic Barbecue Sauce as it’s base and goes on from there with some additions and tweaks to …

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Quick Pickled Shrimp

This simple, easy to follow recipe for Quick Pickled Shrimp is perfect for summer.

Summer meals in my house contain a lot of fresh, local seafood. Fresh local shrimp tops our list and is a favorite of every member of my family. Since we are hosting some summer barbecues this year with friends and family, we wanted to start early in getting our recipes …

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