Are you celebrating this weekend? If so, here’s some ideas for your menu:
 |  |  |
Macaroni Salad Tomato Cucumber Salad Roasted Potato Salad
Garlic Balsamic Crusted Chicken with Wild Rice Pepper Salad
 |  |  |
Rhubarb Cake Frozen Lemon Tart Strawberry Brownie Layers
 |  |  |
Brownies & Strawberries Toasted S’more Bars Blueberry Rhubarb Crisp
Strawberry Rhubarb Pineapple Dump Cake
Sweet Potato Dark Chocolate Chip Bars
What are you most looking forward to about this weekend?
Finals week is wrapping up, and we are drying out. We got over 5 inches of rain in the last 24 hours. Wet. Wet. Wet. Pinterest & blog reading provided a great break from grading during all the rainstorms!
{All images are from the original recipe source, and linked through Pinterest}
Blueberry Vanilla Ice Cream
{My friend Megan posted this amazing ice cream!}
Source: whatmegansmaking.com via Finding Joy In My Kitchen on Pinterest
Chicken Spinach Burgers
{I'm always looking for good & different burgers for the summer}
Source: alittlenosh.net via Finding Joy In My Kitchen on Pinterest
Maple Bacon Biscuits
{Yep. No intro needed}
Source: ourfamilyfoodadventures.com via Finding Joy In My Kitchen on Pinterest
Rhubarb Cheesecake Squares
{Rhubarb. Love it}
Source: oneperfectbite.blogspot.com via Finding Joy In My Kitchen on Pinterest
Mushroom Lasagna
{We love mushrooms - don't need an excuse to eat them!}
Source: melskitchencafe.com via Finding Joy In My Kitchen on Pinterest
As a reminder, if you like these recipes, either re-pin my original pin, or pin the source of the recipe NOT my blog! The talented chefs that came up with these recipes deserve the credit and traffic, so, please, please pin the source!
Please link up to a post containing your list of recipes to try -- do not link up individual recipes please, your links will be deleted. Links that do not follow the guidelines will be deleted. Be sure to leave a link back here to Finding Joy in My Kitchen.
We love sweet potatoes around here – so this week, we decided to try them on the grill. These will be a great accompaniment to our summer grilling.
While they weren’t overly crunchy {sweet potatoes aren’t in general}, we really appreciated the taste – and the fact that we didn’t have to turn on the oven!
Grilled Sweet Potato Coins
Ingredients
Directions
Begin washing your sweet potatoes, and peeling them. Then, prick the sweet potato with a fork a time or two. Microwave the potato to soften it just a bit – about 1-2 minutes.
Then, using a mandolin slicer – slice the sweet potatoes into thin coins. Use caution here because the sweet potatoes will be warm!
Toss the coins with olive oil and sea salt. Add garlic powder, if desired.
Layer the sweet potatoes onto tinfoil and either place the tinfoil directly on the grill grates, or into a grill basket.
Grill over medium heat, turning and/or checking after 5 minutes, grilling for 15ish minutes until potatoes are soft and lightly grilled.
Note – the fries soften a bit as they cook and therefore flipping them can be challenging – use caution to avoid breaking. But, if they do break – they’re still tasty!
Enjoy!
I’ve mentioned it before, but if you haven’t tried blueberries and rhubarb together, you are missing out.
It’s great in muffins, crisp, and now, this baked oatmeal.
Blueberry Rhubarb Baked Oatmeal
Ingredients
Directions
Being by combining the 1/2 C brown sugar, 3 C oats, 2 tsp. baking powder, and 1/4 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. cinnamon, & 1/8 tsp. ginger in a large bowl. Mix well.
Add in 1/2 C applesauce and 1 egg.
Then, pour in the milk.
Toss in the blueberries and fresh rhubarb.
Stir and then pour into a 2 quart baking dish.
Bake at 350 for 35-45 minutes until center is set.
Serve warm with milk.
Enjoy!
