Summer

It’s summertime, and the living is easy. Especially with the help of healthy feel-good recipes! These are my best summer recipes to fuel your body and satisfy your taste buds, and even cool you down on a hot day. My orzo pasta salad with grilled veggies and these baked corn and crab cakes are perfect for summer BBQs and picnics. And what better way to celebrate summer than with desserts like these red, white, and blue fruit skewers with low-fat cheesecake dip? Find your new favorite warm-weather recipes for years to come!

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These lobster tacos are made with steamed chunks of lobster meat, avocado and pico de gallo, topped with a spicy poblano crema. If you want to step up your fish taco game, you need these in your life!
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Union Cantina Lobster Tacos

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I just love tacos with eggs, and these breakfast fajitas are no exception. Loaded with peppers and onions, guacamole and a runny egg on top (you can prepare the eggs however you like).
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Spicy Breakfast Fajitas with Eggs and Guacamole

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A classic Cobb salad with a light summer twist. If you live on the coast like me and have access to fresh lobster, this salad is a must! If you’re worried about cooking a live lobster, many seafood stores will steam it for you. Crab or shrimp would also make an excellent substitution.
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Lobster Cobb Salad

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These Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins are insanely good. So moist, and lightly sweetened, studded with blueberries in every bite!
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Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins

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This easy Baked Pesto Chicken is a fast chicken dish made with skinless chicken breasts, pesto, tomatoes, mozzarella and Parmesan cheese. You can make this in the oven, or make it outside on the grill!
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Baked Pesto Chicken Breast

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Dust off that waffle machine to make these fast and delicious Waffled Crab Cakes! This is so genius you're going to wonder why you haven't thought of this sooner. The crab cakes cook perfectly in the center, with golden edges in less than 3 minutes! And you get perfect little square pockets to hold the lemon juice or tartar sauce.
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Waffled Crab Cakes

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30 mins
Grilled Chicken Salad with Strawberries and Spinach is made with creamy goat cheese and a white balsamic dressing, but this would also be great with Feta cheese and if you want to add more protein, or skip the cheese add walnuts or slivered almonds.
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Grilled Chicken Salad with Strawberries and Spinach

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I adapted my original turkey burger recipe and added fresh oregano and Feta cheese to the burgers. Then I made a simple Greek salad with cucumbers, tomatoes, red onion and a package of Salad Savors and the results were outstanding! I'll be making these all summer.
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Naked Greek Feta-Zucchini Turkey Burgers

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Salsa Verde is a fresh, healthy salsa made with roasted tomatillos, peppers, garlic, onion and cilantro. Perfect for dipping your tortilla chips into or used in recipes that call for jarred Salsa Verde.
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Salsa Verde

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Asian Peanut Noodles with Chicken, Lightened Up is delicious, made with stir fried chicken strips, rice noodles, scallions, carrots, broccoli slaw, bean sprouts in a spicy peanut sauce. A winning combination of spicy, crunchy, sweet and salty will tantalize your taste buds.
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Asian Peanut Noodles with Chicken

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40 mins
This beautiful Spring Berry Salad with Almond-Cranberry Crusted Goat Cheese is studded with strawberries and served over baby greens, but you can use any seasonal berries or a combination of berries instead. Serve this salad alone or alongside grilled chicken or fish.
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Berry Salad with Almond-Cranberry Crusted Goat Cheese

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This is my go-to recipe for shoyu ahi tuna, perfect to add to your favorite Poke Bowl.
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Shoyu Ahi Tuna Poke

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5 mins
Crepes aren't just for rolling, something special happens with you layer then with cream and top them with strawberries. It creates a beautiful cake-like dessert, when you slice into it, you can see all the layers.
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No-Bake Strawberries and Cream Crêpe Cake

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Move over tacos, these scallop tostadas are SO good and they’re ready in less than 20 minutes!
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Scallop Tostadas

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EASY, healthy flourless pancakes, made with only FOUR ingredients, nuts, ripe bananas and oats, plus a whole egg for a powerhouse of nutrition all in a quick breakfast! A perfect way to use up those ripe bananas.
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4-Ingredient Flourless Banana-Nut Oatmeal Pancakes

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Mini burgers with bacon, layered on a bamboo skewer with lettuce, tomatoes and pickles! Who can resist your favorite foods on a stick – not me! These burger bites make the perfect low-carb appetizer to please everyone from age six to age sixty, just set out some ketchup and mustard for dipping and watch them disappear.
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Burger Slider Skewers

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Penne baked with cheese, sauce and loaded with healthy vegetables in every bite. Roasted zucchini, red bell peppers, asparagus, red onion and fennel are tossed with balsamic and herbs then roasted for the best tasting meatless baked pasta dish EVER!
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Cheesy Baked Penne with Roasted Veggies

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55 mins
This easy salad has all my favorite things in one – arugula, Proscuitto, shaved Parmesan and a runny egg! When you pop that egg yolk, the salad is bathed in that warm eggy goodness, salad nirvana in every bite! If you are not a fan of runny eggs, hard boiled eggs would taste just fine too!
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Arugula Salad with Crispy Proscuitto, Parmesan and Fried Eggs

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Shrimp Scampi Tacos with Caesar Salad Slaw, a unique twist on a shrimp taco and ready in under 20 minutes!
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Shrimp Scampi Tacos with Caesar Salad Slaw

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Late Summer Vegetable Enchilada Pie – A saucy, lasagna-like Mexican-American casserole layered with vegetables, tortillas, sauce and cheese.
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Late Summer Vegetable Enchilada Pie

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1 hr 15 mins