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

Fresh Asparagus And Tomato Salad

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

Arugula, Edamame, Tomato Salad

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

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

Fig and Salami Salad with Parmesan

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

Fresh Green Beans and Cherry Tomatoes

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

Simple and Easy Coleslaw

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

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

Easy and Simple Summer Salad

Brown bowl full of cooked diced chicken, diced celery and pickles, diced red onions stirred with white mayonnaise and garnished with parsley. Wood spoon in it.

The Best Cold Chicken Salad

Blue bowl of blended tan pinto bean hummus on a wood cutting board with a lemon half and spoon in the background.

Easy Creamy Pinto Bean Hummus

Cooked Pickled Shrimp with thin sliced onions In a blue bowl with a spoon sticking out. 2 wood bowls with small forks on the side. close up.

Lowcountry Quick Pickled Shrimp

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

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

Cashew Curry Chicken Salad

Small blue bowl of off white hummus with a mint garnish. Spoon inserted into hummus.

Easy Homemade Hummus

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

Fresh Chunky Tomato Salsa (Pico de Gallo)

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.

Easy Skirt Steak Tacos

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

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

Easy Kalamata Olive Tapenade with Figs

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

Easy Mediterranean Salad with Feta Cheese

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

Side view of mound of red quinoa with diced red peppers, artichoke hearts, capers, and pepperoncinis topped with crumbled feta on a white plate.

Quinoa Salad with Feta, Artichoke, Olives

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

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

Peach, Corn, And Tomato Salad

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

Black Beans, Rice, And Fixens

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

Grilled Steak (New York Strip) on a wooden platter resting in it's juice

Creole Spiced New York Strip Steak

2 grilled chicken thighs over a bed of arugula salad w/ halved cherry tomatoes and diced avocado. On a white plate.

Grilled Chicken and Basil Vinaigrette

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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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