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Memorial Day Recipes

2 Plates with one taco each. Flour tortilla filled with sliced cooked steak, tomato salsa, red cabbage, tomatoes, and cilantro. sliced radishes on the side. Glass of water, fork, knife and napkin. Top view.

These Memorial Day Recipes are easy and delicious, giving you time to make rounds to visit graves (my dad has a tradition of this for both traditional military but also all those who have passed) while also enjoying the family and friend cookout associated with this holiday.

Memorial Day Holiday Cooking - A way to celebrate life and remember those that passed in service to our country.  Some times we get ahead of ourselves and think everything's just about food :)

Check out these Memorial Day Recipes That Travel Well

These Memorial Day recipes are made to travel well.  They aren't liquidy and won't spill on your way to the party.  They are also served cold and most can also be made ahead of time.

  • Easy Green Beans with Lemon And Dill
  • Pork Carnitas
  • Corn and Edamame Succotash
  • Cold Chicken Salad
  • Lemon Dill Orzo Salad

Memorial Day Weekend Recipes That Can Be Made Ahead

It's nice to have recipes and food made before the rush of a big party or event. Make these Memorial Day recipes in advance and avoid a big blow out on party day.  These recipes also generally travel well too - bonus!

  • Simple and Easy Coleslaw
  • Potato and Egg Salad
  • Quick Pickled Shrimp - You will love this!!
  • Cucumber and Dill Salad
  • Oven Roasted Golden Beets

No Grilling - Oven Baked Rib Recipes

Not to poo-poo grilling, but I don't do a lot of it.  So here you'll find lots of no grill oven baked rib recipes. Ribs are the backbone (haha - ok there the ribs) of any summer party.

  • Oven baked St. Louis BBQ Ribs
  • Baked Dry Rubbed Pork Ribs
  • BBQ baked Baby Back Ribs
  • Easy oven Baked BBQ Short Ribs
  • Simple Baked Beef Back Ribs

Check out some of my favorite Memorial Day appetizer recipes:

  • Baked Thai Inspired Chicken Drumsticks - cilantro, garlic, soy sauce
  • Easy Pimento Cheese - Southern delight and completely surprisingly addicting.
  • Salami, Arugula, Cornichon "Bombs" - Cute little pickles wrapped in salami.  Super easy.
  • Deviled Eggs w/ Chow Chow - Chow chow is really any pickled veggie.  Don't like it?  Leave it off.
Small blue bowl of off white hummus with a mint garnish. Spoon inserted into hummus.

Simple and Easy Homemade Hummus

Tan bowl of sliced black olives with walnuts and chopped figs mounded in bowl with a spoon and garnished with parsley. side view.

Kalamata Olive and Fig Tapenade

Blue bowl of green cilantro sour cream sauce on a wood cutting board with a red spatula on the side. Blender top in the background with green sauce all over it. Close up.

Easy Cilantro Sour Cream 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

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

Romaine lettuce chunked, chunks of tomatoes, red peppers, whole olives and crumbled feta cheese. On a white plate.

Easy Mediterranean Salad with Feta Cheese

1 piece of salmon spiced with lime, paprika, and cumin on a bed of greens on a white plate

Salmon with Cumin, Paprika, and Lime

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

Simple and Easy Cold Shrimp Salad

Arugula Salad topped with small mozzarella balls and cherry tomatoes on two white plates with knife and fork and salt and pepper shakers. top view.

Arugula Caprese Salad with Ciliegine Mozzarella

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

Cashew Curry Chicken Salad

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

White bowl of chunky red onions, cucumbers, tomatoes, yellow and red peppers salad. Wood spoon it it.

Simple Summer Salad - Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Peppers

Top view of a white plate with fork with quartered figs, sliced salami, shaved parmesan and croutons.

Fig and Salami Panzanella Salad with Parmesan

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

Close up top image of cooked cherry tomatoes, sliced basil, creamy chunks of goat cheese, sliced pepperoncini, and garlic in a bowl.

Baked Tomato and Goat Cheese Pasta

2 wood bowls and one larger white bowl of chunks of peaches, tomato, and corn salsa. Spoons on the side.

Peach, Corn, And Tomato Salsa

White plate of brown seared / blistered small green peppers with a small white bowl of light orange peach sauce.

Blistered Shishito Peppers with Peach Sauce

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

Close up. Fresh Creamy basil pesto in a small white bowl on a delicate flowered napkin. Spoon sticking out and cherry tomatoes in background.

Fresh Basil Pesto - Fix A Bitter Pesto

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

White bowl with wood spoon of red quinoa, diced tomatoes and cucumbers and red onions, and chopped parsley mixed together.

Gluten Free Tabbouleh with Quinoa

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

Fresh Green Beans and Cherry Tomatoes

Top View Corn & Lima Bean Succotash with diced Zucchini In A brown Bowl with a Wood Spoon

Butter Bean (Lima Bean) and Corn Succotash

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