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Looking for some weeknight dinner inspiration? These easy and fresh recipes are perfect for hot summer days!
If you need some fresh dinner ideas, this post is for you! Whether you need an easy meal for entertaining or just a weeknight dinner for your family, we've got you covered. These are some of our summer favorites.
Light, fresh, and full of flavor, these recipes are perfect for hot days. There are salads, grilled entrees, and even a summer curry. Be sure to pin these recipes for later. Enjoy!
This super tender, super juicy, Middle Eastern Grilled Chicken with Toum (a delicious Lebanese garlic spread) and roasted cherry tomatoes is one of those fabulous meals you'll find yourself craving again and again!
This Asian-inspired, Honey Coriander Make-Ahead Salmon is perfect for everyday-easy meals, but also makes a fabulous entree for a dinner party.
This Summery Chicken Coconut Curry is loaded with fresh, healthy summer vegetables and lean, tender chicken. The fragrant coconut curry sauce is crazy delicious!
This Grilled Steak Salad and Sweet Cherry Salad is the perfect summer salad - healthy, hearty, bursting with fresh, seasonal ingredients and loaded with tender, succulent steak!
This juicy, tender Grilled Chicken Shawarma is wonderful on its own, in wraps, sliced thin in sandwiches and it's super delicious in salads.
Served warm or at room temperature, this Israeli Couscous Salmon Salad is light, fresh and delicious. It comes together in right around 40 minutes!
Looking to eat a little lighter and leaner? These Korean Meatball Lettuce Wraps are easy, healthy and so delicious! The meatballs also make a fabulous appetizer that will disappear in the blink of an eye!
A fabulous Asian-inspired salad with lean chicken and coconut curry noodles; this Asian Chicken and Coconut Curry Noodle Salad is fresh, healthy and crazy-delicious!
With a delicious Mexican-inspired dry rub, melting garlic lime butter and a few easy grilling tricks this recipe for Perfectly Grilled Steak is sure to become a favorite!
These Barbecued Chicken Skewers are beyond delicious, with tender chunks of spice-rubbed chicken breast, smoky bacon and crisp red onion. They're grilled to perfection, then charred with a super-easy Bourbon Barbecue Sauce.
Thought for the day:
We have this Hope as an anchor for the soul,
firm and secure.
Hebrews 6:19
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I love your recipes, made your crinkly, crunchy, peanut butter cookies, they were delicious, I share them with my neighbor. I read with watering mouth your recipes, with sheer delight and wonder which will I make first, but I will make your curry tomorrow, thank you for being such a great sharer of wonderful things, food.
I'm so happy to hear that, Velia! I hope you enjoy the curry!