From Scratch Recipes for Foodies & Their Families
Browse hundreds of unique, from scratch recipes and cooking guides designed to help home cooks of any skill level. Taste the difference that fresh, flavorful, seasonal recipes can make for your home cooking and bring restaurant-quality flavors to your dinner table. Soak up the colors and flavor of summer with fresh and light meals, side dishes, salads and more with my seasonal Summer Recipes. Bring my fan-favorite mixed berry cobbler to that summer cookout with friends, grill up steaks with a bright carrot top chimichurri fresh from the garden, or sip festive Italian cream sodas with simple syrup made from scratch.
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Potato and Egg Salad
This classic potato and egg salad uses pickles, hard boiled eggs, boiled waxy potatoes, olives, and a tangy mayonnaise based dressing to create a creamy, make-ahead side dish. Serve your potato salad with pickles and eggs at your next BBQ, potluck, or alongside dinner any day of the week. I knew with Easter approaching that…
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Appetizers | Oven Recipes | Recipes | Salads | Side Dishes | Summer Recipes
Corn Avocado Salad
Corn Avocado Salad features sweet corn cut straight from the cob, diced avocado, roasted red peppers, herbs and an easy homemade dressing. It’s a great cold summer salad that can be made ahead for cookouts, BBQs, and potlucks. Every summer, just when the heat gets intense, sweet corn shows up at our local farmers market….
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Fall Recipes | Lunch | Main Course | No-Cook Recipes | Poultry Recipes | Recipes | Salads
Apple Pecan Chicken Salad
Apple pecan chicken salad is an easy meal that packs a big, satisfying flavor. Use leftover or canned chicken to mix up a delicious sandwich filling or cracker topping that’s full of delicious texture and flavor from pecans, granny smith apples, and the right blend of seasoning. As a stay-at-home mom, I’m always looking for…
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Fall Recipes | Lunch | Recipes | Salads | Side Dishes | Summer Recipes
Tomato Spinach Salad
This tomato spinach salad is a simple, but delicious rendition of a basic chopped spinach salad, tossed with juicy cherry tomatoes and fresh shaved Parmesan. It takes only minutes to bring this quick dinner salad together, vinaigrette included! As a blogger, I spend a LOT of time working on recipes, which means a lot of…
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Dinner | Fall Recipes | Lunch | Main Course | Pork Recipes | Recipes | Salads | Spring Recipes
Pork Tenderloin Salad with Maple Mustard Dressing
Make salad for dinner exciting with this delicious 35 minute pork tenderloin salad. Simple spinach topped with fresh apples, candied pecans, juicy sliced pork tenderloin and drizzled with a maple mustard dressing makes a satisfying salad for dinner or lunch. Salad used to be a struggle for me. I know I should eat them, I…
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Dinner | Lunch | Main Course | Recipes | Salads | Side Dishes | Spring Recipes | Stovetop Recipes
Warm Kale Asparagus Salad
This Warm Kale Asparagus Salad with Hard Boiled Eggs is served with a bacon dressing and is a delicious lunch, light dinner, or side dish. Hearty greens and tender blanched asparagus make this a healthy but yummy springtime meal. Truth be told, I’ve been sitting on this recipe for a while. I actually started developing…
Scratch Made Staples
Hi, I’m Mikayla, a foodie mom who LOVES to cook, eat, and feed my family fresh, flavorful seasonal foods. Here you’ll find unique, from scratch recipes and cooking guides designed to help home cooks of any skill level master flavor and technique and deliver delicious, real food to the table.
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