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Summer Main Dish Recipes

Turkey Salad with Grapes & Cashews

Cooking Time: 10m
Turkey Salad with Grapes & Cashews is one of my favorite summer salads and the only way to use up leftover turkey when the weather is warm! Cashew nuts are the secret ingredient to this salad giving a slight crunch with every bite. Texture is everything in a salad!  To...
October 5, 2020
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Buttermilk Chicken with Peach Salsa

Cooking Time: 20m
This Buttermilk Chicken with Peach-Tomato Salsa is a delicious summer meal. I love the combination of chicken with fruit so this fruity salsa ticks all my boxes! It’s really versatile too – you can serve this with a fresh green salad or a baked potato if you’re feeling hungry. Start...
September 9, 2020
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Easy Chicken Pesto Stuffed Peppers

Cooking Time: 20m
I’m all for these stuffed pepper recipes and so I had to add this Easy Chicken Pesto Stuffed Peppers to the list, naturally! Best made with medium, sweet yellow or orange peppers and stuffed with a hearty filling made from shredded rotisserie chicken, cooked brown rice, premade pesto and shredded...
August 25, 2020
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Romanian Stuffed Peppers (Ardei Umpluti)

Cooking Time: 2h 15m
Originating in Romania and enjoyed all across the Mediterranean and Middle East, these Romanian Stuffed Peppers (Ardei Umpluti) are, in one word, unbelievable. Preferably use medium, colorful peppers to stuff with ground pork, uncooked rice, chopped onion, some egg, fresh dill, fresh parsley, salt and pepper. Over a low heat,...
August 11, 2020
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Garlic-Parmesan Zucchini Squash & Tomatoes

Cooking Time: 12m
Garlic-Parmesan Zucchini Squash & Tomatoes is one of those side dishes that I love to make when the tomatoes and zucchinis I grow in my vegetable patch ripen. It’s full of Mediterranean flavors thanks to garlic and Parmesan. It is super simple to make too. Start by sautéing zucchini and...
August 11, 2020
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Summer Squash Soup

Cooking Time: 30m
I love to make this Summer Squash Soup for two on a special and romantic date night with the extra effort and additional love that goes into making this pot. Just describing this soup makes me hungry! With puréed vegetables of onions, summer squash, Yukon Gold potatoes, carrots and garlic...
July 23, 2020
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Zucchini Gratin with Yellow Squash

Cooking Time: 33m
I love to make this Zucchini Gratin with Yellow Squash for a meat free Monday meal. The secret to this gratin recipe is smoked Gouda cheese which I use to top this baked gratin. My family loves this dish and I am sure yours will too! To make this gratin,...
July 23, 2020
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Parmesan Zucchini Tomato Chicken Spaghetti

Cooking Time: 25m
This Parmesan Zucchini Tomato Chicken Spaghetti recipe is a delicious midweek meal that you can have on the table in under 25 minutes. It combines chicken with one of my favorite herbs (basil in the pesto) and zucchini and tomatoes. Can you think of a dish which screams summer more?...
July 22, 2020
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Vegetable Cheese Crepes

Cooking Time: 25m
In our Vegetable Cheese Crepes recipe, please don’t be intimidated by the amount of ingredients, each and every flavor brings an important and subtle contribution to this delicious breakfast or brunch option. As the queen of eggless recipes, I can make almost every dish to my preference, and this particular...
July 21, 2020
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Chicken Quinoa Jar Salad

Cooking Time: 5m
Jar salads are one of my favorite things and this Chicken & Quinoa Jar Salad does not disappoint. So easy to prepare in advance and the chicken and quinoa in this salad make for a filling and delicious lunch. Layer ingredients into a mason jar. Whisk balsamic vinegar and mustard...
June 27, 2020
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Sorrel Soup (Russian Green Borscht)

Cooking Time: 10m
This Sorrel Soup (Green Borscht) is another one of our delicious, authentically  Russian soup, that is full of everything good and nothing bad. Packed with vitamins and nutrients, this broth-like soup is filled with a handful of sorrel leaves, a few potatoes, boiled eggs, onion and garlic. I like mine...
June 22, 2020
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30 Minute Spicy Lentil Bolognese

Cooking Time: 28m
This is a 30 Minute Spicy Lentil Bolognese that will be putting in a regular appearance in your kitchen. It is super quick and easy to make. It’s very filling too and completely vegan which makes it the number one summer dinner recipe in my kitchen.  To make this bolognese,...
June 1, 2020
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Easy Roasted Whole Trout

Cooking Time: 37m
This Easy Roasted Whole Trout is a showstopper which you should make next time you’re feeding a crowd. It is super easy to make too so you can prepare it in advance and cook it while your guests are settling in. Or you could prepare and cook the fish in...
May 12, 2020
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Roasted Chicken Grapes Rosemary

Cooking Time: 40m
My family is very traditional when it comes to Sunday lunch and quite often I choose this Roasted Chicken Grape Rosemary as a menu option. With a pre grilled Chicken, charred until caramelized, with a balsamic glaze, before roasting, gives this roast chicken an extra crisp! Roast in a roasting...
August 30, 2019
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Holodnik

Cooking Time: 1h 40m
Originating in Eastern Europe, this Holodnik recipe has become famous world-wide with its delicious and creamy, beet flavor. A cold soup made from a base of cooked beets, boiled water and buttermilk, filled with crunchy onions and cucumbers and seasoned with salt, a pinch of sugar and a bunch of...
August 21, 2019
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Spinach-Tomato Macaroni & Cheese

Cooking Time: 45m
A fresh and healthy Spinach-Tomato Macaroni & Cheese that is made for the whole family. A great way to get in some nutritious vegetables like tomatoes and spinach by incorporating them into everyone’s most loved pasta dish – macaroni and cheese. Cook the macaroni, spinach mixture and garlic-onion tomatoes separately...
August 21, 2019
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Green Gazpacho

Cooking Time: 4h 5m
This Green Gazpacho is the perfect vegan recipe for a summer evening dinner option. Just a few healthy and nutritious, fresh vegetables and herbs with English cucumber, garlic, arugula, basil, parsley, cilantro and mint blended together and seasoned with a sherry or red wine vinegar and some kosher salt. The...
August 14, 2019
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Okroshka – Russian Summer Soup

Cooking Time: 55m
Feel no guilt with this Russian inspired Okroshka, most commonly described as a light and cool, cold Summer soup. Using a sour cream base seasoned with salt and vinegar and filled with chopped dill, green onion and diced ham, cooked potatoes, hard-boiled eggs and cucumbers for some crunch. It’s absolutely...
August 13, 2019
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Healthy Eggplant Soup

Cooking Time: 1h
Healthy Eggplant Soup! I usually prefer to cook big, fancy dinners but sometimes I enjoy experimenting with simple and healthy meal options too. This easy eggplant soup quickly became a popular favorite in my kitchen this winter. I first started enjoying eggplant after visiting the Mediterranean where they use this...
August 12, 2019
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Smoky Salmorejo

Cooking Time: 1h 25m
Unbelievably flavored, this Smokey Salmorejo, cold Spanish soup is just wonderful. A tomato gazpacho made from blended tomatoes and bread cubes, seasoned with grated garlic, sherry vinegar and smoked olive oil and garnished with thinly sliced grapes and chopped, roasted almonds that bring some sweetness to your bowl. The smokey...
August 11, 2019
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