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Labor Day Recipes

Small Potatoes, Shrimp, Sliced Andouille Sausage, Corn cooked and laid out on craft brown paper. Close up.Labor Day pays tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers, and what better way to celebrate than with delicious food and Labor Day recipes!

Start out the 3 day weekend with some of these easy cookout recipes.

 

Check out some of my favorite seasonal Labor Day recipes:

  • Corn And Sweet Potato Chowder - Add a little cilantro or avocado.  Take it up a notched with a bacon garnish if you eat meat.
  • Easy Dry Rubbed Pork Baby Back Ribs - Finger lickin' GOOD!
  • Low Country Boil - Easy recipe with Sausage, Shrimp, and Corn.  Throw everything out on a lined table and people help themselves.
  • Chunky Egg and Potato Salad - celery, red onions, pickle, mayonnaise, mustard.
quartered strawberries, chopped pecans, and crumbled goat cheese on arugula salad on a shallow bowl/plate.

Strawberry Arugula Salad with Goat Cheese

top view of potato salad on a square aqua plate with utensils on the side. Close up view.

My Favorite Potato and Egg Salad

Two shallow white bowls filled with chopped lettuce, sliced cucumbers, sliced radishes, , cherry tomato quarters and blue cheese and pecan crumbles. Two forks, two knives, and two white napkins on the side. Close up.

Chopped Romaine Lettuce And Chickpea Salad

Green Sweet Pea, Toasted Sliced Almonds & Thin Sliced Radishes in a brown bowl with a spoon hanging out.

Sweet Pea, Almond, and Radish Salad

Seared and thinly sliced pork tenderloin. Top view on a white plate with a sprig of rosemary in the background.

Balsamic Rosemary Pork Tenderloin

White bowl of sliced thin and pickled red onions (pink hue). with a silver spoon out of the bowl on a dark wood table.

No Cook Quick Pickled Red Onions

Side view. Slice of brown cake on white plate with fork with out of focus cake in background.

Easy German Chocolate Hazelnut Torte

Roasted Beef Brisket Sliced on A Wood Cutting Board With Horseradish in a White Bowl with A Fork

Simple Oven Cooked Beef Brisket

Crispy pan seared shrimp close up in a black pan with brown bits and fond stuck to the shrimp and pan. Closer up.

Easy Pan Seared Shrimp with Butter

Side view of 5 collard green wraps with one cut open to expose the quinoa and vegetables inside.

Quinoa, Hummus, and Vegetable Collard Green Wraps

Small Potatoes, Shrimp, Sliced Andouille Sausage, Corn cooked and laid out on craft brown paper. Close up.

Easy Low Country Boil

Close up ofcooked jalapeno poppers filled with a brown orange crust and a chopped cilantro garnish. Top view, close up.

Cream Cheese Stuffed Jalapeño Poppers

Top view of white oval bowl of black beans with a cilantro leaf garnish.

Easy Spiced Up Black Beans

4 pieces (3 ribs each) of Cooked Baby Back Ribs With BBQ Sauce Broiled On with a knife and small black bowl of bbq sauce on a wood cutting board (3 eaten bones in the back). Side view. Horizontal picture.

Easy Oven Baked BBQ Baby Back Ribs

Wood bowl of pimento cheese with 3 crackers and a small spoon hanging out. Crackers on plate in background and one with pimento cheese on it.

Easy Homemade Pimento Cheese

Apple, Celery, Raisin & Walnut Salad In A Brown Dish With a Spoon

Simple Apple, Celery, and Walnut Salad

Mason Jar with White Lid of Preserved Sliced Red, Orange, & Yellow Shishito Peppers

Easy Quick Pickled Shishito Peppers

One piece of cooked salmon on a white plate. Salmon is topped with a lemon zest butter and fresh thyme. On a white plate with colorful napkin on the side. Close up.

Easy Baked Lemon Butter Salmon

Corn, Edamame, & Red pepper Succotash with red peppers with a fork in a brown bowl. close up.

Easy Corn and Edamame Succotash

Top down view of a white plate with chopped greens with quartered figs and pine nuts and goat cheese. Fork on the side of plant and pine nuts on the side.

Fig and Goat Cheese Salad with Kale and Pine Nuts

Raw Okra on a Silver skewer over a bowl of cherry tomatoes and halved peaches.

Easy Whole Grilled "unslimy" Okra

French green beans in a white oval platter with a tan trim tossed with dill.

Easy Lemon Dill Green Beans

1 white plate with corn on the cob with butter and dusted with chile powder. 3 pieces of plain corn on the cob in the background.

Corn with Honey Lime Compound Butter

Cooked Chicken Thigh and Leg with A Brown Dry Rub On A white plate with a green salad and red tomato salad.

Dry Rubbed Oven Baked Chicken Leg Quarters (Drumsticks and Thighs)

Crostini (little toasts) topped with spreaded mascarpone, a peach slice, and a mint leaf. Several crostini's ona wood cutting board.

Peach and Mascarpone Crostini

Raw whole okra laid on spaciously on a stainless steel baking sheet.

Easy Oven Roasted Whole Okra

Cauliflower rice with whole cashews, raisins, carrots with curry and garnished with mint. White bowl with spoon. Side view.

Curry Cauliflower Rice with Cashews

White bowl of ½ blended and ½ chunky cucumber and tomato gazpacho soup with basil leaf garnish

Fresh Cold Gazpacho Soup Recipe

Oval white bowl of corn salad w/ quartered cherry tomatoes, jalapeños, red onions, and cilantro. Side view.

Easy Frozen Corn and Tomato Salad

Seared and browned caramelized sliced zucchini rounds on a white plate with red pepper flakes lightly garnished. Top view crop to a rectangle.

Simple Pan Fried Zucchini Rounds

Close up of wood bowl of cucumber soup with chunky cucumber and red onion garnish. White bowl of cucumber garnish on side.

Cold Cucumber Dill Soup

2 Mason Jars filled with sliced Pickles and vinegar and red pepper flakes and garlic. Side view.

Easy Quick Brined Refrigerator Pickles

Sausage, cheese, and rice wrapped collard greens on a wood cutting board. One cut open.

Sausage and Cheese Collard Green Wraps

Chili Lime Compound Butter Roll on a wooden cutting board with a bowl of fresh lime juice with a teaspoon in it, fresh sliced bread, a lime, and ground chili powder with a butter knife.

Chili Butter with Lime and Honey

Baked Meatballs elevated on a wire rack above an aluminum lined baking sheet.

Buffalo Meatballs with Dill Sauce

Stainless steel deep skillet filled with white beans and diced tomatoes with a lightly pulsed pesto of kale and almonds.

Cannellini Beans with Kale Pesto

Wood plate full of BBQ Shrimp with a Lemon Garlic Sauce over a bed of greens.

Grilled Shrimp with Lemon Butter Sauce

White bowl of shrimp in red tomato sauce over white rice and garnished with peppers and chopped celery leaves.

Easy Shrimp Creole with Rice

Grilled Grouper Collar (Fish Neck) on a white plate with grilled pineapple rounds. Another plate out of focus in the background.

Grouper Collars (AKA Fish Collars)

Side view of white bowl of green salad with shelled edamame, pecans, cherry tomato halves. Fork sticking out.

Arugula, Edamame, Tomato Salad

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I’m Beckie Hemmerling. I love food and I think of it on a basic level of providing strength & nourishment. Cooking has helped me *try* to figure out life, not just my own, but also other people's. I have cooked through many joys / sorrows and cooking has always been a meditative place through these highs & lows. More background info →

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