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Dad’s Cookin’ Recipes
This is a fresh and tasty way to use up tomatoes when your garden is being overly generous. This salad goes great with Italian, Greek, Spanish or Mexican dishes.
Macaroni Salad is a buffet and pot-luck dinner standard. This is my go-to recipe for Macaroni Salad. It is delicious in it’s most basic form, and you have many options that you can add for different flavor profiles (I like it with all of the …
Opa! This salad is a tasty combination of pungent onions, Kalamata olives, and pepperoncini mixed with the subtle flavors of tomatoes and feta cheese. This salad will easily feed 8-12 people.
Sweet and tangy with the added flavor of bacon, this delicious warm salad goes well with chicken, pork, or sausage. This goes especially well as a side dish with bratwurst.
I prefer my coleslaw creamy, and this is my go to recipe with a nice blend of tangy and creamy. This coleslaw goes great with BBQ and picnic food.
This was the way my mom liked to prepare cucumbers, and I’ve always like the counterpoint of the creaminess with the tartness of the vinegar.
For the holidays, I like to make a cranberry salad from scratch and not just pour it out of a can. This recipe has that distinct cranberry flavor, with some more complexity from the other ingredients.
