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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.
Fresh asparagus, red onions, cherry tomatoes and a dijon mustard & white wine vinaigrette.

Cold Asparagus And Tomato Salad

Little Cornichon pickles wrapped with Arugula and rolled up in salami with colorful toothpicks holding them together. Ten of them on a wood plate.

Easy Salami Appetizer with Pickles

Shrimp Salad w/ Horseradish, Chives, Lemon In A White Bowl.

Simple and Easy Cold Shrimp Salad

Top view. Chunks of shredded chicken, with whole cashews, raisins, and celery in a yellow curry mayonnaise dressing. White bowl.

Cashew Curry Chicken Salad

Pink Watermelon Popsicles in plastic molds with coloful tops. Around 14 popsicles.

Easy Homemade Watermelon Popsicles

Top view of zucchini noodles with carrots, red onions, red peppers, green onions and cashews on a white plate with chopsticks.

Asian Zucchini Noodles (Zoodles)

Top down view of sliced cucumbers and red onions in a tan bowl. Close up.

Cucumber Dill Salad with Vinegar and Onions

Top down view of a wood bowl of pasta salad with basil and silverware on the side.

Orzo Salad with Sun Dried Tomatoes and Feta

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 Thighs and Drumsticks

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

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

Easy Corn and Edamame Succotash

One taco filled with chicken, cole slaw, cilantro, sliced jalapenos, and 3 sliced radishes. Ingredients in background.

Chicken Tacos with Enchilada Sauce

3 Corn Grilled in Darkened Husks and peeled back to exposed charred kernals.

Grilled Corn On The Cob in Husk

Three pieces of ribs with bone on a white and brown plate with remaining ribs in background on cutting board. Close up,

Easy Oven Baked Asian Style Sticky Ribs

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

Top view of a bowl of cole slaw: cabbage and grated carrots in a white bowl. Forks on the side.

Simple and Easy Coleslaw

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

Easy Frozen Corn and Tomato Salad

3 Grilled Banana Halves and One Whole, still in skin & grilled. Set on a white plate and has a honey butter glaze.

Easy Grilled Bananas

Brown Roasted Chicken legs in a cilantro sauce in a blue baking dish. Close up. Side view.

Baked Thai Chicken Drumsticks

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.

Kale Salad with Fig, Goat Cheese, Pine Nuts

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

Fresh Cold Gazpacho Soup Recipe

2 spring rolls cut in half (4 halves) filled with avocado, grated carrots and red cabbage, rice noodles, green lettuce on a wood cutting board.

Healthy Vegetable Spring Rolls

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 Butter

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

Easy Quick Brine Refrigerator Pickles

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

Quick Pickled Shishito Peppers

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

Grilled Shrimp with Lemon Butter Sauce

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

Arugula, Edamame, Tomato Salad

Cooked Green Beans & Fresh Cherry Tomatoes on a long white rectangle plate.

Fresh Green Beans and Cherry Tomatoes

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

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

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

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

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

Curry Cauliflower Rice with Cashews

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

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)

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