Cornbread Caprese Salad: Immediately up your salad game with this delicious caprese style salad with homemade cornbread, burrata cheese and reduced white balsamic vinegar. Now that I’m into the early summer months you better believe the corn and tomatoes are in full swing in my house. I do actually love those winter root veggies, but…
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Spring Salad Recipe with Farro and Lemon Thyme Vinaigrette
Spring is in the air and the weather outside is just starting to turn for the better. Winter’s here in Chicago are long and cold so it’s no wonder the city starts to erupt in March with more and more folks chomping at the bit to get outside at any sign of 40°+ weather. …
Lemon Herb Flattened Chicken with Root Vegetable Panzanella Salad
Let me first start by saying how much I’ve enjoyed creating these videos for you guys and this Lemon Herb Flattened Chicken with Root Vegetable Panzanella Salad may be one of my favorites. I’ve only done a few of these long form videos, i.e. 10 mintues +, but still I like being able to share…
Kale and Brussel Sprout Salad Recipe with Beets and Fried Goat Cheese
I am back at it this week with this insanely delicious Kale and Brussel Sprout Salad Recipe with Beets, Sweet Potatoes, Dried Cherries, Pistachios, Bacon and Fried Goat Cheese tossed in a tasty creamy red wine vinegar dressing. I know I keep telling you that we are pushing to incorporate more greens into our diet…
Summer Salad with Quinoa Recipe and Creamy Poppy Seed Dressing
As I’ve been writing the last few weeks in some of my blog posts, we are on a mission to indulge in all things clean eating and that’s why I created this Summer Salad with Quinoa Recipe and Creamy Poppy Seed Dressing. We aren’t perfect, nor are we striving for perfection, and we still appreciate…
Smoked Chicken Greens Salad with Zucchini and Cilantro Lime Dressing
There are two things that I’ve really enjoyed preparing over the last year, making homemade bread and smoking food, see this smoked chicken recipe. Making bread is therapeutic and delicious, smoking is time consuming and delicious :-). I’ve only been smoking food for the last few years and up onto that point I didn’t have…
Taco Salad Recipe with Chicken and Avocado Lime Dressing
When coming up with this recipe all I could think about was that weird taco salad rendition that you would get in elementary school from the cafeteria. Truth be told it was my second favorite day of the month behind pizza day J. Fast forward 25 years I decided to make my own, un-inspired from…
Kale Salad with Apples and Roasted Acorn Squash Recipe
You all know it’s that time of year where everyone is setting goals like crazy. Whether it’s getting in the gym, losing weight or heck even trying to pay off debt, all of us are looking for that reset button, including me! I didn’t work out on January 1 mostly because our church had a…
Winter Salad Recipe with Roasted Butternut Squash and Pomegranate Seeds
I know, it’s a winter salad from Chef Billy Parisi that has close to 9,000 ingredients in it. I realize quite a few of my recipes have a decent number of ingredients in it but man once I’m creating something I being to think, “Well this other thing would go great in here, and then…
Spinach and Strawberry Salad with Grilled Lemon Chicken
My wife came down stairs after a nap and spotted this Spinach and Strawberry Salad with Grilled Lemon Chicken just as soon as I was done photographing at and just starred at it haha. She was like, “what is that and can I eat it?!” After a few bites she said with her mouth completely…
Classic Nicoise Salad Recipe with Mustard and Lemon Vinaigrette
At least once a week we indulge in an all-out vegetable fest and this Classic Nicoise Salad Recipe hit the nail on the head! I make so many rich, delicious foods and desserts that a few times a week we just crave nutrients from vegetables so I try to get all vegetarian, or in this…
Salmon and Lentil Salad Recipe
I always say how I love summer produce the most and how the variety is so much more grand, but after this Salmon and Lentil Salad Recipe, I think my perception has changed a little bit. Sometimes I need to make something that I haven’t in a while that helps bring me back to my…
Butter Leaf Lettuce and Quinoa Salad with Oranges
The goal of every single recipe that you make should be the balance of flavors. The right amount of sweet, sour, umami and salt will always render a perfect flavored dish, however it’s not that easy to achieve on a consistent basis. I do find that achieving that perfectly balanced recipe can often times come…
Summer Caesar Salad Recipe with Homemade Dressing
You know I can’t keep things normal, I’m always trying to twist up something new, and this Summer Caesar Salad Recipe with Homemade Dressing is my latest. While some of it had to do with wanting to eat a chicken caesar, the other had to do with just wanting to use up some things I had…
Grilled Chopped salad with Sweet Mustard Vinaigrette
One of the things I absolutely love about the spring and summer is the fresh produce that is available at the local grocery store. Fresh tomatoes, fresh corn, fresh asparagus, the possibilities literally seem endless. All of these vegetables are also great for grilling. Our family often roasts vegetables over the open fire simply with…
Shaved Vegetable and Spinach Salad
This Shaved Vegetable and Spinach Salad is a bit of an extension of the healthier version of Spinach Salad with Parmesan Vinaigrette except I used French bread in the vinaigrette. That’s right there is bread in the vinaigrette and dang was it good. It really helps to provide some body to the dressing and honestly it tasted a…
Thai Salad Recipe with Peanut Dressing
And the healthy eating continues. If there’s one thing I’ve learned through this process it’s to pay attention to what and how much you put into your body. Even during my deepest temptation to eat cookies, and cakes and pies, I pause for a moment and think about how much sugar is in that pie,…
Spinach Salad with Parmesan Vinaigrette
My first recipe from my 21 days of healthy eating is finished. I knew salads were going to be a big part of this diet so why not start with one. This Spinach Salad with Parmesan Vinaigrette recipe is somewhat of a twist on something I had at a restaurant down town. Healthy enough and tasty…
Raw Vegetable Salad Recipe with Blue Cheese
I got the inspiration to make this Raw Vegetable Salad Recipe with Blue Cheese from two things really. The first is that I had an all shaved veggie salad at this amazing restaurant called Au Cheval here in Chicago and the other reason I wanted to make it is because dang have I been eating bad…
Mediterranean Vegetable and Bean Salad Recipe
So I hooked up this Mediterranean Vegetable and Bean Salad Recipe to go alongside this Mediterranean Grilled Rack of Lamb Lollipops Recipe and dang was it awesome. My wife actually doesn’t like lamb (I know…) but put some roasted sliced chicken in it and she absolutely love it! It’s really easy to make and literally would be a…
Panzanella Recipe with Tomatoes and Pesto Vinaigrette
The Panzanella salad was invented in Italy, simply because we are the best! Just kidding 🙂 Seriously though, the Italians, like many European cultures do a great job of utilizing every piece of food they have. So when there was a bunch of left over crusty bread, or a few random things from the garden,…
Berry Summer Salad Recipe with Curry Chicken
Whenever I know I have a lot of carb heavy recipe development and photography coming, I try to make the prior to cooking as light as possible to try and balance off the week. I was looking for something refreshing and in season so I created this Berry Summer Salad Recipe with Curry Chicken which was…
Southwest Salad with Grilled Chicken
So what do you do when you have a ton of leftover southwest rubbed and grilled chicken? You make a salad of course! Really this dish was just about utilizing some more leftovers to carry over the cooked southwest chicken. The only thing I had to do was literally open up a can of black…
Easy Greek Salad Recipe with Roasted Chicken
Sometimes you just need a refreshing salad loaded with nutrients to cut into your weekly routine of protein, fast food and junk to feel better. There have literally been days where I would eat like crap and literally feel terrible all day because my body was running on garbage. We are an on the go…