Quick Summer/spring Meals?!

Chicken kabobs, grilled veggies, grilled pineapple for dessert, potato pouches on the grill, grilled chicken and corn salad, cedar planked glazed salmon, beer can chicken, lemony cherry pie in a graham cracker crust (my new easy favorite dessert to make), choc and strawberry pie. I am looking for some spring/summer soup recipes.

I just picked up a new cookbook "Gooseberry Patch Summer in the Country" for some summertime recipe inspiration. I'm loving it! Good luck!

I love swapping recipes if you are interested!

Well, now I am super hungry! I am excited to try the ideas the other ladies offered.

I have a grill basket that I bought at a Pampered Chef show and I LOVE it. I grill shrimp in it all the time. Grilled shrimp on a salad....mmmmm!
I also grill asparagus with cherry tomatoes, baby portabella mushrooms and red onion.....top with feta cheese. Oh so yummy! I usually serve that with chicken breast or salmon.

I, like another poster, love www.allrecipes.com . You can find literally any recipe idea there and make it your own.

For an easy grill dinner, I take sausage and peppers and onions and wrap them in foil, served with rice.

Any type of cooked sausage- Hickory Farms or Italian links, whatever you like. Cut into slices and lay on a large sheet of foil. Chop some white onion, yellow, red and/or green bell peppers, and add to the sausage. Drizzle with olive oil and seasonings (optional. I use italian seasoning blend or a grill seasoning blend.) Wrap the foil around the mix to make a packet, put on the grill until veggies are tender and everything is heated through. I like to add a little bit of water, especially if you don't do a lot of veggies in it and use more meat. Then you get more juices. I make a pot of rice (long grain, white, whatever you like) and serve the sausage mix over the top. Also a great thing to make for large barbeques because you can do one sausage or 6 depending on your crowd. Easy to bring to a potluck, you can have it prepped and ready to throw on the grill.

I also like to take any fish, whatever is a good bargain, and top it with a good salsa and cheese. I like white fish so I usually use tilapia, something mild. Cook it completely and then add a spoon or two of good salsa or pico de gallo, a slice of montery jack cheese, and heat it just til the cheese melts.

Grilled salman with olive oil, sea salt, pepper, lemon juice. Side with bean salad (kidney/garbanzo beans, cut baby tomatoes, red wine vinegar, olive oil, sea salt, fresh basil).

Salmon Season starts in a few weeks!

Hi, A.!
I just thought I'd see if you had ever looked at AllRecipes.com They have WONDERFUL resources including looking recipes up by ingredients, cooking technique, style...blah, blah! I loooove it! Good luck...M

Tonight we are having cream cheese jalepeno pork tenderloin and a salad. The prep takes a little time, but it's worth it.

I buy the Tyson pork tenderloin and it comes 2 to a pack so I go ahead and fix both at the same time. I freeze the other one.

Start by gently cutting the tenderloin down the center lengthwise. Cut it as much as you can without breaking it in half. Then, cut those halves down the center, lengthwise also. That way you can lay the pork out flat (make sense?).

Spread cream cheese over it...as much or little as you want. We like ours really creamy. It probably takes a little less than half a small tub.

Remove the seeds and chop up your jalepenos really fine. My mom uses one or two. I used 3 very large ones on each tenderloin today. I leave about 2 to 3 inches without jalepenos for my kids. Sprinkle them over the top of the cream cheese.

Roll it up as best as you can. Then roll bacon around it. Put it in a pan and bake. For the one you are freezing, wrap it in cellophane and then foil and freeze.

I can't remember the length of time to cook it or what temp. As soon as I hear back from my mom I will edit my answer :-)

**My edit**
Cook the tenderloin uncovered at 400 degrees for an hour 5 min or 10 min. When the bacon is done the porks is done. Ours came out super delicious tonight and my husband and daughter had seconds!

An INCREDIBLE grilling website is: http://www.bbqu.net/

If you want a grilling cook book his book is also excellent http://www.amazon.com/Barbecue-Bible-Over-500-Recipes/dp/...

I also found the book at half price books

Yum yum - He is an awesome "griller" :0)

We cook alot on our grill during the summer (too hot in the house during the summer).

Grill corn, pineapples, peaches, diced up poatoes with butter and garlic wrapped in tin foil.

Fish with lemon pepper or steak seasoning. Fast and great (salmon, tialipia, catfish)

Chicken with italian dressing, lemon pepper. Sometime I cook it with onions and pepper with a little seasoning. Taste great.

Steaks, shrimp on the grill.

I also buy the terioyke pork tenderloin but it on the grill, it's really juice and its cooking time is shorter on the grill, my kids love this.

Also sometimes when it's really hot, we have taco salads.