Mexican Chicken Salad with Chili Lime Vinaigrette

Mexican Chicken Sala in a large brown bowl.

Skip going out and make a delicious, restaurant quality Mexican Chicken Salad at home with easy to find ingredients and some simple prep work. **This post (including photos, text and recipe) has been updated since its original post date in 2012 to include more helpful information and to improve the ease of preparation. Ok, so

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Avocado Lime Ranch

This Copycat Chick-fil-A Avocado Lime Ranch tastes just like the real deal. It's simple to make with a small handful of ingredients that are easy to pick up from the store. Bright, fresh and totally delicious on all your summer salads.

This Copycat Chick-fil-A Avocado Lime Ranch tastes just like the real deal. It’s simple to make with a small handful of ingredients that are easy to pick up from the store. Bright, fresh and totally delicious on all your summer salads. This post may contain affiliate links. For more information, please read my disclosure policy.

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Southwest Chicken Pinwheels

Southwest Chicken Pinwheels

Whether you’re looking for a simple appetizer or fun lunch I’ve got you covered with these Southwest Chicken Pinwheels. Only 6 ingredients and a few minutes needed to create these tasty bites. So I finally have some quiet time to focus on writing and I’m sitting here unable to think of anything to say. Isn’t

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Avocado BBQ Chicken Cheddar Melt

Avocado BBQ Chicken Cheddar Melt

Simple barbecue chicken topped with melted cheddar cheese and avocado slices makes for a delicious and simple dinner. Fire up the grill and get this Avocado BBQ Chicken Cheddar Melt on the table in less than 30 minutes. So I’ve decided instead of breaking the year apart through the seasons we should totally define it around food.

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BLT Bagel Sandwich

It’s National BLT month people! Do you guys love or hate all these food holidays? I kind of love them since it gives me more reasons to make chocolate cake, doughnuts, grilled cheese and more. As if I need more excuses, right? Hopefully they don’t drive you guys crazy because they are here to stay

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Sweet Potato Breakfast Bowls

You know the book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day? We had one of those days yesterday. Everything went wrong and we just couldn’t get out of our funk. It wasn’t pleasant. We got takeout which made it better though. I really need to stop using food to make me feel better. Or

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Southwestern Chopped Salad with Blue Cheese Avocado Dressing

I have another Mexican inspired recipe to share today in preparation for Cinco de Mayo tomorrow just in case you didn’t find something in yesterday’s taco post. We decided on these Loaded Carne Asada Tacos for our little celebration but if you want to make smarter decisions and keep it light, this Southwestern Chopped Salad

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Cobb Salad

Now that the summer heat has set in, I have been craving cool, crisp salad all the time. The only problem here is one of those boys I live with (the big one) doesn’t think salad is a meal. In comes the Cobb Salad to prove him wrong because if you know me, you know

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Chicken Enchilada Salad

Remember the enchilada sauce from Wednesday? I told you I would be bringing you a unique meal idea to use the sauce with and Chicken Enchilada Salad is it! I have been eating a lot of salads this summer and this recipe was at the top of my list to try. I changed up the

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