Here’s all we need to finish out the summer (or get ready for tailgating!).
Loaded Baked Potato Salad with all the creamy dreamy stuff dreams are made of.
…Loaded Baked Potato Salad (for Labor Day!)
potluck
Classic Deviled Eggs
Happy July!
True life, I don’t like eggs, and I really don’t like hard-boiled eggs. It’s a texture thing, and the overwhelming smell is just…not enough to negate the idea of a cheap+sustainable+healthy protein. BUT, because everyone else likes eggs, and I know how good they are for us, I really want to like them. So, imagine my sadclown surprise when my magazine editor assigned me deviled eggs for our July feature. It was surprising because mainly I choose my own topics, but I’m always asking for direction because I’m eager to please and insecure.
So, the irony of being told to write one recipe in over a year (and I supply 1-3 recipes per month) and have it be an egg recipe was not lost on me. I probably deserved it. It turned out to be a fun challenge, though, and I have a fun trick to offset the mealy texture of boiled egg yolks, something I find particularly not awesome. We make the entire filling in a food processor which is 1. easy and 2. produces a filling that is creamy, not mealy, and delicious. The rest of the ingredients are things you’d find in deviled eggs or egg salad, with lots of spices for flavor and some juice from the pickle jar for flavor. Flavor wins.
…Asian Chicken Salad
Nope, not like the kind at Panera with random crunchy things on top and weird thick sweet dressing drizzled over dry chicken. 
Not like that. Like southern chicken salad but with Asian flavors including but not limited to Sriracha and soy and sesame, and YOU WILL LOVE THIS. Regular chicken salad is all well and good, but THIS is the summer appetizer that will get you invited back to fun places. 
I made this last week for Jay’s lunch and then took leftovers to the beach to share, and that ish was GONE. I didn’t get a single bite, which is a testament to how great it is. It’s easy, too!
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Roasted Tomatoes with Homemade Ricotta
OMG IT’S FINALLY FRIDAY.
I’m having conflicted emotions about this. First, Jay leaves again Sunday for a week so that stinks. 
Second, I have to work late today and then on Sunday.
So that stinks.
BUT I’m getting my wedding highlights this afternoon and tonight we have a wedding shower for my friend Jennifer who’s marrying my other friend Jake and THEN tomorrow I have a bridal shower in the morning AND ALSO my little sister gets home tomorrow from a mission trip in Guatemala so……it’s going to be a fun weekend.
Or a fun Saturday.
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Cheesy Baked Chile Rice
Ohhhhhhhh this is comfort food but it tastes like Mexican food and it’s so easy and you can make it ahead and it’s vegetarian but hearty and filling and cheesy.
It’s great for a Monday, is what that should tell you.
This rice is all of the things.
Also, how was your weekend? Mine was kind of …. rained out. I had 93737 fun things planned for the sunshine, and then there wasn’t any so….whomp whomp.
We DID, however, celebrate a full year in our house! I did 3 loads of laundry to celebrate. Cool, huh?
Or not.
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