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California Cuisine with a Coastal Vibe

September 2, 2011 By Lisa Dearen 3 Comments

Labor Day Weekend Menu


Labor Day weekend marks the end of summer in our family. Growing up, it meant one last trip to the Sacramento Delta for waterskiing and lunch at Tinsley Island. In college, we’d celebrate the last three-day weekend until Thanksgiving, bouncing between the beach and the Belly-Up with equal determination. Now, as a family, we embrace the holiday the quintessential American way: smoking up the neighborhood with our charcoal grill.

This Labor Day weekend menu includes all the elements of summer – herb grilled chicken, late-summer bounty and ice-cold beer. End with a peanut butter blondie and maybe even some ice cream. After all, bikini season is behind us!

Rosemary Garlic Grilled Chicken
With my go-to chicken marinade everything’s coming up roses, er, rosemary. Get your grill on with this fool-proof recipe.

Corn Salad with Tomatoes
Celebrate summer’s bountiful crops with this easy-breezy corn salad, perfect for picnics since it’s make-ahead and perfect at room temperature.

Spring Salad with Spinach, Pear and Avocado
Summer salads cool off our palette, and this one is no exception. Made with crisp baby spinach, sweet pears and creamy avocados, this one’s a crowd pleaser.

Peanut Butter M&M Blondies
Satisfy your sweet tooth with this peanut butter blondie decorated with M&M’s. Peanut butter, chocolate, brown sugar…need I say more?

This weekend, our ice chest is packed with our new favorite beer, Sierra Nevada Torpedo. Do you have a favorite beer?

Now that you know what’s on my plate, what are you cooking this weekend? And if you don’t celebrate Labor Day in your country, do you have a similar holiday during the year?

Happy Cooking!
Lisa

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  1. Taylor says

    September 2, 2011 at 5:12 AM

    I’m putting that corn and tomato salad on my menu for this weekend! And I just so happen to have a bag of PB M&M’s waiting to be used in some blondies 🙂 Happy weekend!!

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  2. Averie @ Love Veggies and Yoga says

    September 3, 2011 at 12:30 PM

    The salsa looks great..ironically I have a mango/corn one up on my site and the pics look a lot alike of our salsas.

    Off to check those M & M blondies now… 🙂

    Reply
  3. Stephanie says

    September 7, 2011 at 10:15 AM

    That menu sounds amazing! I still really need to make those blondies

    Reply

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