Memorial Day Recipes that Rock
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Three cheers for the red, white, and blue! Memorial Day weekend is finally here, kicking off the start of summertime and bringing opportunities to potluck the weekend away. If you’re looking to pull together a few totally fabu eats, here are a few of my very favorite recipes to wow a crowd. Whether you’re looking to make Tie-Dye Cupcakes or Pizza Devilled Eggs to go along with your weekend grilling, then you’re sure to find something yummy and unique for your weekend revelings. Happy Memorial Day!
Ever had Spicy Shrimp Sushi? Helloooo, delicious. Well, take that and put it into pasta salad form and you may never want to eat anything but Spicy Shrimp Pasta Salad ever again. It’s good. Like, really, really gooood.
Packing a picnic this weekend? Tote along these Perfect Egg Salad sandwiches. They are simple to make, full of family-friendly flavor, and way, way scrumptious. A nice change from the plain-old PB or hogi sandwich.
Get your main dish in on the holiday fun with this Red, White, and Blue Pasta Salad. It’s so easy because you make it entirely with a few scoops of ingredients off the grocery store olive bar. Such a snap!
You simply can’t have enough pasta salad ideas for the Memorial Day weekend. But, you definitely can’t have enough of this Ham and Fresh Corn pasta salad. It looks simple, but be warned. It’s addictive city.
Why serve your potluck people jell0 and cheesy potatoes when you can fresh it up a bit and offer a plate of Avocado Fries with Cilantro-Lime Ranch for dipping? I’m just sayin.
Kick off the weekend festivities with these fun red-white-and-blue Krispy Star Pops. My kids go gaga over these! (Okay, honest admission: So do I. :)
Take store-bought angel food cake to a whole new level with this Strawberry-Banana Nutella Shortcake. I ate everything you see in that picture. Shamelessly, entirely ate it up.
Why serve up plain old Strawberry Shortcake when you can make it bite-sized adorable with these Strawberry Shortcake Shooters?
Want a recipe so light and simple it won’t thwart your efforts to get into that itsy bitsy teenie weenie Bikini? This Mango-Peach Sunrise Poke Cake it like eating a cloud. With peaches. And sunshine. And little white unicorns. Only, the unicorns prance out of the way before you eat them. Because, you know, that’d be gross.
Looking for more fun recipes like Triple Chocolate Cake Pops, BLT Pizza, and Brazilian Cheese Puffs? Check out my recipes from the month of May on Babble, Betty Crocker, and Tablespoon!
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mangiabella on May 28, 2011 at 11:18 am
these recipes are as lovely as lovely can be
Marla on May 28, 2011 at 5:08 pm
Brooke, each of these recipes is unique & fabulous. The perfect line up for memorial day entertaining!
Karan on May 28, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Oh every one of these look so good. The cupcakes are so pretty. Almost too pretty to eat.
Katrina on May 29, 2011 at 5:38 am
Mmmm such tasty ideas!
Elizabeth on May 29, 2011 at 8:40 am
I WOULD QUITE HAPPILY NOT MIND GETTING FAT ON YOUR FOOD. UUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH I COULD BITE THE SCREEN :(
anna on May 29, 2011 at 6:14 pm
aw i was disappointed when this fabulous list ended! those avocado fries are especially on the list for this weekend! thanks brooke!
Liz on May 29, 2011 at 8:02 pm
These all look delicious, but I am especially loving those cupcakes. Beautifully done! Well, the pasta salad is going to be on my dinner plate ASAP, so maybe that is the one I’m especially loving.
Tickled Red on May 31, 2011 at 10:14 am
I’m sitting here at lunch drooling over all of the pasta salads and desserts. OMW!! My poor tummy is made at me for packing a wimy sandwich today, lol :)
Camille on May 31, 2011 at 11:47 am
I’ll take one of each! Brooke, I love your creativity with food! LOVE the tie-dye cupcakes. And the mango pineapple poke cake. Heck, let’s be honest, I’ll be making pretty much everything listed here… :) Hope you had a great memorial day weekend!
Aggie on May 31, 2011 at 5:17 pm
goodness gracious girl! every picture got better and better!! Loving those pasta salads!
amy on June 1, 2011 at 11:34 am
Oh yummy, every single one of them sounds delicious. I am bookmarking this for summer meals. Thank you!