Serves: 4-6 Prep time: 40 minutes For the cilantro pesto:
Former White House Social Secretary and co-author of Treating People Well with Jeremy Bernard.
Grilled Shrimp Corn Salad with Garlic Bread
One bowl dinners – especially one bowl dinners that can be grilled – are about the easiest summer meal there is. I especially love this one because the corn salad can be made ahead, and then it takes less than five minutes to grill the shrimp and the garlic bread. It’s the perfect meal when you want something simple but delicious, and you don’t want to pay too much attention to the cooking – maybe you’re having friends over and […]
Grilled Purple Potato Salad with Cilantro Pesto
Potatoes may not be the first thing on your list to throw on a grill, but potatoes and grills belong together. This is just the kind of salad I would have wanted for a White House Congressional Picnic menu: it’s colorful, unusual (purple basil, purple potatoes, almonds, cucumbers, and cilantro pesto), and it doesn’t have any ingredients that would spoil as it sits on a buffet in the brutal Washington heat. The annual Congressional Picnic is an enormous outdoor party […]
Red Wine Slushie
This is the drink for a Friday afternoon at the end of a long, hard week. (It’s also an excellent way to sneak alcohol into the movies. Just save your slushie cup. Not that I would ever do such an un-social-secretary-like thing.) A red wine slushie is a fabulous party cocktail. I think that if you showed up at a summer party with a big Ziploc bag full of red wine slushie – because that is the best method by […]
Red Wine Slushie
adapted from a recipe from Just Us Four Blog Serves: 6 people Prep Time: 5 minutes plus 10 hours freezing time
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