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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.
Tomato Tart with different sizes and colors of tomatoes on golden puff pastry with basil leaves and sliced basil garnish.

Easy Tomato Tart with Puff Pastry

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.

Skirt Steak Tacos and Fixens

Top down view of chunky cooked onions, zucchini, peppers on a brown plate with white napkin in background. Close up.

Chunky Pan Seared Onions, Peppers, Zucchini

Five poached pink shrimp on a little tan plate with a wedged lemon. Poached shrimp in a blue bowl on the side and also layed over some cups in the background. Lemon wedges in the background.

Simple and Easy Poached Shrimp

Top view of three small white bowls of diced red beets. Two bowls with crumbled goat cheese and orange zest. One bowl with just orange zest is close up and in front.

Roasted Beets with Orange Balsamic Dressing

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

Top down view of white bowl with chopped greens and sauce in it. Small bowl of chili flakes on the side.

Simple Vegetarian Collard Greens

Sauteed Shrimp In A Red/Brown Butter & Worcestershire Sauce In A White Bowl with a Spoon.

Buttery Shrimp with Worcestershire Sauce

White rectangle plate of smoked salmon cucumber rounds with capers, onions, and chopped dill and parsley. Top view.

Smoked Salmon Cucumber Bites Appetizer

Multiple deviled eggs laying on a bed of spinach on a brown rectangle plate with a chive and paprika garnish.

Easy and Simple Deviled Eggs

Top down view of white bean dip with lemon zest on top in a wood bowl.

Creamy Lemon Cannellini Bean Dip

Cranberry and Walnut Cake Baked Recipes, Cooked Golden Brown On A Round Pan.

Easy Cranberry Walnut Cake

Thin sliced flank steak on a wood cutting board with a knife. Meat is pink in the middle.

Easy Marinated Lemon Dijon Flank Steak

Yellow Golden Beets roasted and sliced and tossed with red onions and a dressing. On a wood plate with a wood spoon.

Oven Roasted Golden Yellow Beets

Top down view of chunked kale on a white oval plate with chunks of orange mangos, cranberries, and pistachios on top.

Kale Salad with Cranberries, Pistachios, Goat Cheese

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

Close up of Deviled Eggs Topped with Chow Chow (Pickled Tomatoes) on a white plate

Deviled Eggs with Pickled Chow Chow

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

Grilled Chicken Thighs (with grill marks) on a bed of green salad w/ pineapple chunks on a white plate

Grilled Jamaican Jerk Chicken

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

Curry Cauliflower Rice with Cashews

Top view of wood bowl filled with white mayonnaise sauce with pickles.

Easy Homemade Tarter Sauce

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

5 ripe strawberries on a small rectangle plate with a dollop of whipped cream.

Fresh and Easy Homemade Whipped Cream

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)

Close up of fresh diced tomatoes, jalapenos, red onions, cilantro in a bowl.

Fresh Chunky Tomato Salsa (Pico de Gallo)

Roasted Asparagus with Feta garnish on a white plate with a black rim. side view.

Easy Roasted Asparagus with Feta Cheese

Grilled Chicken Thighs with a red brown dry rub on a white plate.

Easy Grilled Boneless Chicken Thighs

Lemon Parsley Compound Butter On A Cutting Board With Ingredients. Side view.

Lemon, Parsley, Garlic Compound Butter

Close up of Red Purple Tomato slices, Mozzarella cheese slices, and basil leaf.

Heirloom Tomato Caprese Salad

White plate with a layer of sliced tomatoes at the bottom. On top is diced grouper and cucumbers with fresh dill and capers.

Grouper, Cucumber, Tomato Salad

Corn on the cob in husk, whole poblano peppers (green, red, and orange), quartered eggplant and small red peppers on two levels of a grill

How To Grill Vegetables

2 halves of a peach with dark grill marks sitting inside a wooden bowl.

Easy Grilled Peaches

White bowl of orzo salad with diced artichoke hearts, red onions, red bell peppers with willted spinach. Silver spoon in the bowl.

Easy Italian Orzo Pasta Salad

Grated Carrots, Raisins, toasted Walnuts, and sliced Mint Salad in a white bowl with a blue rim.

Carrot, Raisin, Walnut and Mint Salad

Stacked & Fried Eggrolls On a Tan Plate with a white blow of guacamole. side view.

Crispy Southwest Vegetarian Egg Rolls

Plate of Black Beans & Rice W/ Tomato Salsa, Guacamole, Pineapple, and sliced turnips.

Drinks - Peach Rosemary Bourbon

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