14 TASTY Summer Dinner Recipes from this week’s Best Friday Features!

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Watermelon Thyme Lemonade @ Flour On My Face

Avocado Bacon Ranch Quinoa Salad @ Food Fun Family

Grilled Corn with Honey Butter @ Adventures of Mel

Honey Sriracha Chicken @ Simply Stacie

Grilled Chicken Sandwiches with Garlic Parmesan Mayonnaise @ Walking On Sunshine

Sesame Noodles with Grilled Chicken @ Cooking with Curls

Scrumptious Strawberry Cobbler @ Stone Gable

Blueberry and Goat Cheese Crostini with Thyme and Honey @ 5 Minutes for Mom

Baked Spaghetti @ Spaceships and Laser Beams

Tex Mex Pasta Salad @ A Mom’s Take

Zucchini Pizza Bites @ Walking on Sunshine

Pepper and Broccoli Pasta Salad @ Organized Island

Grilled Pineapple Chicken Kabobs @ April Golightly

No Bake Cheesecake Pudding Parfaits @ Walking on Sunshine

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What are some of your favorite summer recipes?

Tell me what you’ve been working on in the comments – I would love to come see your ideas!!

xoxo

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11 Favorite Grill Recipes

11 Favorite Grill Recipes from this week’s Best Friday Features!

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Grilled Pizza Margherita @ Cooking with Curls

Mexican Burgers with Queso Blanco @ Cooking with Curls

Grilled Mexican Street Corn @ Giggles Galore

Pineapple Meatball Skewers @ Suburban Simplicity

Grilled Peaches with Honey @ Cooking on the Front Burner

Grilled Pork and Pineapple Salad @ The Chef Next Door

Grilled Smoked Chicken Sandwich with Pepper Pesto @ Kiss My Smoke

Grilled Salsa Burgers @ Delightful E Made

Shrimp Foil Boil @ Growing Up Gabel

Barbecue Pork Sliders with Carolina BBQ Sauce @ Tauni + Co.

Canadian Steak Marinade @ Cooking with Curls

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I am also doing a giveaway for a $100 Sears e-Gift Card as well as a Beautiful Leather Satchel Purse! All you have to do is visit the post and leave a comment. I can’t wait to see who wins!

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What are your favorite foods to grill?

Tell me what you’ve been working on in the comments – I would love to come see your ideas!!

xoxo

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Here’s what you’ll need:

• One package burrito-sized large tortillas (mine had 16 tortillas in it) (I chose plain flour ones; you can choose whatever your family likes)
• One package grilled chicken strips — mine were just the basic ones from Costco
• One large (4-cup) package of shredded Mexican cheese (the four-cheese variety, not the seasoned kind. If you’re into the seasoned kind, get that. I won’t judge.)
• (Optional) One package of shredded quesadilla cheese
• 2 avocados, ripe
• One package fresh pico de gallo (or whatever salsa you prefer)
• One bunch of green onions
• Sour cream or Crema Mexicana (we prefer the latter)
• Anything you want to serve on the side, like tortilla chips
• Butter or oil and a brush or paper towel to grease the grill (we used 1-2-3 oil)

And here’s how to go from fridge to fed in 20 minutes!

1. Assemble all the ingredients; light the grill and put it on medium low to low heat.
2. Skin, seed and slice the avocados as thinly as you can (for me, one avocado filled about three quesadillas)
3. Arrange tortillas on your counter (we made 3) and cover with shredded cheese. Unless you want to clean a lot of cheese out of your grill, you may want to leave 1/4″ or so around the edges. When in doubt, add more cheese.
4. Arrange the chicken strips and avocado slices  in a sunburst pattern around each quesadilla, alternating. (You can do this and the next two steps in any order)
5. Add some green onions on the top. While you can slice them in advance, it’s just as fast to use a pair of scissors to snip off the ends of the green onions over the quesadillas. That’s my cooking tip of the week!
6. Add pico de gallo, evenly distributed, in each quesadilla.
7. Add a bit more cheese to the top
8. Place another tortilla on the top of each quesadilla.
9. Take quesadillas to the grill. My grill only fit two of these large tortillas at a time.
10. I cooked my quesadillas only about 5 minutes total. After about 2 1/2 minutes, I flipped my quesadillas. Watch them closely!
11. Let the quesadillas rest for a few minutes, then use a pizza cutter to cut them into slices.
12. Serve with crema Mexicana/sour cream, salsa, chips, or anything you like!
13. Enjoy!

You can imagine many variations on this — leave out the chicken for vegetarians; add cilantro if you like that, and so on. And of course, it’s always better with chips and salsa! (Check out my pico de gallo recipe!)

What do YOU love to grill??

Share your ideas in the comments!! 

xoxo

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