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Ten of our favorite easy dinner ideas, perfect for the summer season. These meals are great for busy weeknights or easy entertaining!
Are you in need of some fresh dinner inspiration? You're in the right place! These are some of our favorite easy, fresh and summery dinner ideas. These recipes are great for busy weeknights or for casual entertaining with friends. You can prep them ahead of time.
We've included a wide variety from steak to chicken to salmon, so there's something for everyone! Be sure to pin these for later and add them to your summer dinner rotation. Enjoy!
These Grilled Chicken Thighs with Coconut Chili Lime Sauce come together quickly and are loaded with fresh, vibrant FABULOUS flavor! The delicious sauce is used for basting and as a finishing sauce.
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!
This fabulous Southwestern Zucchini Ham Crustless Quiche is healthy, hearty and super delicious. It comes together quickly and is a great way to use up leftover ham (or just purchase a chunk of ham from the deli)!
These tender Fresh Herb Chicken Meatballs, with a delicious lemon garlic butter sauce, come together quickly and can be prepped early in the day!
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!
Love a hearty, healthy, salad that's bursting with bright, fresh flavor? This Chopped Mediterranean Farro Salad is a meal on its own or a great side!
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!
Served warm or at room temperature, this Israeli Couscous Salmon Salad is light, fresh and delicious. It comes together in right around 40 minutes!
With a sweet, savory, soy-pineapple glaze sauce these Hawaiian-inspired Huli Huli Chicken Meatballs make delicious appetizers, rice bowls sandwiches and more!
Thought for the  day:
For Christ also suffered once for sins,
the righteous for the unrighteous,
that he might bring us to God,
being put to death in the flesh
but made alive in the spirit.
1 Peter 3:18
What we're listening to for inspiration:
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nice lazy
nice meals
lazy meals well
nice summer meals
Thanks, LabDex!
I think everyone should note down the recipe of all of these as all are too good. Best of luck!
Thanks!
I shall save every one of these as they will be perfect 12 months/year in our sub-tropical Brisbane climate. Thank you Chris
I hope you enjoy them, Anne!