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Strawberry Avocado Mint Salad Spring Rolls // A Foodie Picnic

July 18, 2016 by Steph Powers Leave a Comment

Roll up your salad so you can eat it on the go! Strawberry Avocado Mint Salad Spring Rolls

These Strawberry Avocado Mint Salad Spring Rolls are great for serving a portable salad at a picnic or party! (Or just noshing on for lunch!) Last week I shared my Fig and Pig Flatbread and talked about the foodie picnic I put together with my friend Meghan from Cake n' Knife. This week I want to share my favorite new way to chow down on a salad - spring rolls! You may have seen these rice ...

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Gluten-Free, Party, Recipes, Salads, Sides, Simple Hospitality, Snacks, Vegetarian Tagged With: almonds, asian, avocado, goat cheese, healthy, Party, picnic, poppyseed dressing, salad, spinach, spring rolls, strawberry

5 Allergy-friendly Potluck Themes for Your Next Get-together // Simple Hospitality

January 20, 2016 by Steph Powers 2 Comments

Some great ideas for gatherings with food allergies so everyone can still enjoy the meal!

 These 5 Allergy-friendly Potluck Themes are sure to be a hit the next time you have friends over for a meal!  Welcome to the first post in a new series I'm doing called Simple Hospitality! In a Pinterest-filled world it's easy to think you have to go overboard and become Martha Stewart in order to have people over to spend time with you in your home. That is definitely not the case! ...

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Filed Under: Cooking Tips, Party, Recipes, Simple Hospitality Tagged With: baked potato, breakfast, breakfast bar, chili, party ideas, pizza, pizza night, salad, salad bar, simple hospitality, soup, soup bar

20 Homemade Salad Dressing Recipes + Meal Plan Monday Week 26

June 29, 2015 by Steph Powers 10 Comments

Awesome collection of homemade salad dressing recipes! Bonus- they're gluten-free.

Today I'm bringing you a roundup of 20 Homemade Salad Dressing Recipes along with today's Meal Plan Monday! (Pictured clockwise: Herb and Yogurt dressing - Lauren Caris Cooks, Poppyseed Dressing -The Kitchen McCabe, Pomegranate Dressing - Feast + West, Beet Basil Pesto - Sustaining the Powers, Red Wine Peach Vinaigrette - Dine and Dish. See links below.)   This summer I've been ...

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Filed Under: Gluten-Free, Meal Plan Monday, Recipes, Roundup, Salads, Sides, Vegetarian Tagged With: Meal Plan Monday, roundup, salad, salad dressing

Roasted Beet Salad With Goat Cheese and Beet Pesto Vinaigrette + Meal Plan Monday #2

January 12, 2015 by Steph Powers 25 Comments

Roasted Beet Salad with Beet Basil Pesto Vinaigrette

Roasted Beet Salad: Sweet Roasted Beets, Creamy Goat Cheese, Toasted Pine Nuts, and a Beet Basil Pesto Vinaigrette + Meal Plan Monday #2 You know how much I love recreating recipes I've tried in restaurants. This recipe comes at the request of my hubby. It's a recreation of a dish from an incredible local restaurant called Root Down that's in both the Denver Airport and downtown. There are ...

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Filed Under: Gluten-Free, Meal Plan Monday, Recipes, Salads, Simple, Vegetarian Tagged With: arugula, beets, goat cheese, Meal Plan Monday, pine nuts, roasted veggies, salad

Mexican Corn Salad (Esquites)

July 28, 2014 by Steph Powers 25 Comments

Esquites Mexican Corn Salad

A hot, cheesy Mexican Corn Salad adapted from the popular Mexican street corn, elote.  A few weeks ago I got stuck without eggs and made a run to our closest grocery store. I typically avoid this particular because their prices are crazy and they only have what I need half the time. It happened to be a Friday when they were running one of their TGIF specials and corn on the cob was 10 ...

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Filed Under: Gluten-Free, Recipes, Salads, Sides, Simple, TexMex, Vegetarian Tagged With: esquites, glutenfree, mexican corn, salad

Jicama Strawberry Summer Salad

July 2, 2014 by Steph Powers 26 Comments

Jicama Strawberry Summer Salad

Crunchy, raw jicama and fresh strawberries take center stage in this bright Jicama Strawberry Summer Salad. Last week I shared about how to buy, prepare, and roast a jicama into my favorite Jicama Fries with Balsamic Ketchup. The jicama I found in Denver are ENORMOUS, so this week, I wanted to share this recipe for a jicama strawberry salad you can make with all the leftover jicama.   Now ...

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Filed Under: Chicken, Gluten-Free, Recipes, Salads, Sides, Simple, Vegetarian Tagged With: chicken, gluten-free, jicama, orange, poppyseed, salad, strawberry, vegan, vegetarian

Carrot and Raisin Salad

February 21, 2014 by Steph Powers 8 Comments

Carrot Raisin Salad

Every Sunday in our house involves zombies. A while ago, we invited a couple friends over for dinner and to watch the Walking Dead on a Sunday night.  The simple "post-apocalypse potluck" meal of whatever we had leftover in the fridge has now morphed into a weekly Sunday night event with 8-10 people over for dinner and a watch party each week. We watch it like many people watch football- ...

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Filed Under: Recipes, Sides Tagged With: carrots, pineapple, quick, raisins, salad, yogurt

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I'm Stephanie. I'm an Austin, Texas native living in Denver, Colorado who blogs about my favorite Tex-Mex and travel-inspired recipe creations, food photography tech resources for bloggers. I want to make it easier for you provide sustenance to your family and show hospitality to others. Click here to learn more about me.

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