40 Recipes for Memorial Day

Memorial Day Recipe Ideas *Updated and expanded from a previous Memorial Day post

Desserts

1. Mini Fruit Pizzas
2. Strawberry Summer Cake
3. Strawberry Pretzel Dessert
4. Peanut Butter Pretzel Brownies
5. Red Velvet Brownies
6. Marble Blondies
7. Snickerdoodle Bars
8. Lemon Cream Pie
9. Chewy Peanut Butter Brownies
10. Lemon Puppy Chow
11. Black Bottom Banana Cream Pie
12. Cosmic Brownies
13. Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Bars
14. Chocolate Topped Peanut Butter Pie
15. Patriotic Brownie Skewers
16. Lemon Mousse
17. Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars
18. Chewy Brownies
19. Mini Colorful Chocolate Cupcakes
20. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Dip
21. Frosted Cookie Cups
22. No-Bake Peanut Butter Squares
23. Texas Sheet Cake
24. Strawberry Cake

Memorial Day Recipes

Sides & Drinks

25. Strawberry Lemonade
26. Mango Lemonade
27. Strawberry Agua Fresca
28. Raspberry Ice Cream Sodas
29. Skinny Pool-Side Dip
30. Herbed Lemon Rice Salad
31. Asparagus with Lemon, Pine Nuts, and Parmesan
32. Roasted Garlic, Jalapeno, & Feta Dip
33. Classic Guacamole
34. Broccoli Salad
35. Orange Creamsicle Fruit Dip
36. Fontina & Herb Flatbread
37. Bagel Chips with Spicy Cheese Spread
38. Restaurant Style Salsa
39. Herbed Yogurt Spread
40. Spinach Orzo Salad

Brown Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Brown Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

OK, let me just start out by saying these cookies are amazing! You really can’t go wrong with brown butter, oatmeal and chocolate chips.  I have made 3 batches of these so far, and every time I just can’t get over how good they...

Baked Onion Rings with Chipotle Ranch Dressing

Baked Onion Rings with Chipotle Ranch Dressing

As soon as I saw these baked onion rings in a recent edition of Real Simple, I knew I had to make them. I love onion rings, and the chipotle ranch dressing sounded pretty amazing too. Well, I’m happy to say these did not...

Coffee Ice Cream

Coffee Ice Cream

Coffee Ice Cream has become a recent addiction of mine. Actually, coffee in general has become an addiction. I can’t believe it took me this long to try to make a homemade version of this ice cream, but I’m pretty sure it’s going to...

Baked Apple Chips

Baked Apple Chips

These baked apple chips make a perfect healthy snack. They’re incredibly simple to make and they taste great.  All you do is slice an apple really thin, and then bake the slices at a really low temperature until they turn nice and crispy. The...

Chili-Lime Snap Peas

Chili-Lime Snap Peas

It’s not often that I find a recipe that I love as much as these chili-lime snap peas. I wish I had been keeping track of how many pounds of snap peas we’ve gone though in the past few weeks because I can’t seem...

French Sandwich Bread

French Sandwich Bread

I’ve got a great recipe for you today!  This French sandwich bread is simple to make and it’s my new go-to bread for all types of sandwiches. The recipe is actually an adaptation of an old French bread recipe I have on my blog....

Friday Favorites

Friday Favorites

It’s time for another edition of Friday Favorites! As always, I’m starving after writing this post – all these recipes look so good! Enjoy, and be sure to check out the blogs I’m linking to – there are plenty more good recipes where these...

New York Style Crumb Cake

New York Style Crumb Cake

**Thank all SO MUCH for the kind words about our newest addition. Reading all of your sweet comments made me smile all weekend!! If you are a coffee cake fan, you will love this New York style crumb cake! It is similar to the...

A small announcement

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I have a confession. I have been keeping something from all of you. That’s right – we have a BABY!! It wasn’t too long ago that I wrote about our plans to adopt and how long we had waited. Well, just a few short...