It’s Friday What’s For Dinner 03-17-23

Anyone that makes a homemade dinner is welcome to type the name of one recipe that you prepared in the comments, then we can all scroll through the comments for recipe ideas. This will be a weekly Friday post and only recipes on the Friday posts will be allowed.  If someone wants your recipe and asks, there will be no pressure to […]

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Napa Valley Turkey Salad

This was the best turkey salad I have ever had! I would never have dreamed of putting this dressing on my turkey salad and it was amazing. Add some chopped pecans, green onions and it is the perfect salad. I didn’t have pecans or green onions so I left them out and it was still delicious! To see the step […]

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Copycat KFC Coleslaw

Cabbage, carrots and onion chopped fine in a food processor with added homemade slaw dressing. This is the perfect make ahead side dish for your Thanksgiving meal. This is another recipe I saved from a copycat book that I took out at the library, a few years back, and I didn’t mark down the title or the author. If you […]

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Italian Pasta Salad

I made this Italian Pasta Salad in remembrance of my late Aunt Lynda. For my birthday, in 2019, she paid for my cousin and me to attend a class with her to learn how to make Homemade Cheese Ravioli. The class was at a store in which I also purchased some items, one of them being this Italian Pasta. I […]

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Seven Fruit Two Cup Salad

I call this my Seven Fruit Two Cup Salad because it has 2 cups of each kind of fruit and 2 cups of juice. Add whatever fruit you have in the house and don’t be afraid to use canned fruit, like I did, for even more variety. Rinse and dice the fresh fruit into bite size pieces. Drain any canned […]

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Summertime Pasta Salad

My husband surprised me with this delicious pasta salad. He added red tomato, yellow pear tomato and cucumber, all from our garden. He also added black olives, pepperoni and cheese with the pasta. Toss with a simple Italian dressing and you have a wonderful pasta salad for any occasion. This is a Pasta Salad I made a while back. You […]

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Red Potato Salad With Bacon

Red Potatoes with celery, onion, hard boiled eggs, bacon, Miracle Whip or mayonnaise and seasonings made for a delicious side dish with our meal or even for a potluck. Using red potatoes is a nice change from using regular white potatoes and adding bacon gives this potato salad an extra special flavor. Rinse and boil whole red potatoes until tender […]

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Caprese Orzo Salad

If you love Orzo Pasta and add mozzarella cheese, cherry tomatoes and basil to it with a delicious homemade balsamic vinaigrette it will leave you wanting more! Adapted from http://www.kyleecooks.com Rinse the cherry tomatoes and basil then pat dry. Cook the pasta according to the package directions, rinse with cold water and drain thoroughly. Pour the pasta into a large […]

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Italian Salad Dressing

You will not want to buy Italian Salad Dressing from the store again after tasting this. It is inexpensive, quick and easy to make. It is not only a salad dressing, you can put it on chicken or vegetables as a marinade for great tasting food too. Add 2 Tbsp. of this mix to vinegar, water and oil then serve. […]

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