Grilling

These delicious salmon foil packets with vegetables and citrus cauliflower rice are the perfect weekend meal to enjoy with family and friends.

These marinated pork skewers with a spicy Asian noodle salad is the perfect thing to spice up your summer grilling menu.

Make this Southern California staple of California burritos at home with this easy to follow recipe.

Zesty tuna sliders with spicy mayo are the perfect addition to summer entertaining, family gatherings, and of course Earth Day celebrations.

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Have you got weekend barbecues planned with friends and family this spring and summer? I hope to be spending as much time as possible taking in the sunshine and grilling outdoors. The weather here is absolutely perfect right now.

Hot dogs are always a staple item on the menu for grilling. The kids love them, but I also love to add a toppings bar for gourmet hot dogs that adults will love too.

Here is a super quick and easy pineapple salsa that is the perfect topping for hot dogs, and pairing it with sriracha mayo makes for the perfect spicy hot dog.

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Looking for the perfect weekend dinner recipe to enjoy outdoors? Try this grilled lemon chicken with pea, corn, and asparagus risotto.

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The kids have been gone this week and so I've been pulling double-time at home trying to get through as much work as possible so that there's a little less juggling next week.

With my kids coming home tomorrow though (time has flown) I suddenly realized that the man and I hadn't used this opportunity to spend any quality time together. So, I took the morning off work. We enjoyed a lovely hand-in-hand stroll around a local lake and then ran a few errands together … that totally counts as a date, right? … before working together to create a delicious dinner.

The best part of date night at home and cooking together while the kids are gone is that we don't have to worry about meals being kid-friendly.

Cooking together means him grilling and me putting out side dishes. I love it when we can use a little teamwork and I don't have to spend that extra time in the kitchen standing over the stove. 

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Backyard grilling isn't just for meat, burgers, hot dogs and veggies, grill your dessert too and take your entire meal outdoors. This recipe is fantastic for warm summer nights especially if you don't have a backyard fire pit, and only requires four ingredients.

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Make this spicy Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich for dinner tonight. It’s delicious.

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I recently put in a new rule at the dinner table that the kids had to try something new with every meal, well, those meals that contained something that they hadn't tried before at least. A few weeks ago I made a salad for dinner. Normally I make a salad on the side of a main dish, but this time I just made a salad, it was a Chinese chicken salad with grilled chicken, carrots, mandarins and lettuce. I added the dressing on the side for the kids but served the meal for dinner. After the initial whining subsided I made the usual declaration that if they ate their dinner they could have dessert. Let's face it technically this dish contained a lot of items they love, for example the grilled chicken, mandarins and carrot, but the fact that it was all combined and there was a side of dressing made them automatically think they wouldn't like it.

Miss M tried it first, she'd already taken a liking to lettuce recently and we convinced her to add just a little dressing to her chicken. She loved her entire meal, ate the whole thing and declared that when we go out to eat from now on she's ordering a salad. It was a huge victory. Flynn was still a little skeptical, but he ate his meal, he wasn't thrilled about it, but he realized that it wasn't all that bad.

So now we are having salads on a regular basis. Last night we enjoyed a grilled chicken Caesar salad with homemade dressing (on the side of course). They loved it.

This is a really quick and easy dish to make and is perfect if you made a lot of grilled chicken for a backyard barbecue and have a few leftover that you want to incorporate into a dish.