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Top 10 Memorial Day Recipes

From Diana Rattray,
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Memorial Day traditionally marks the beginning of the grilling season and summer cookouts for many. Here are some of my favorites, including salads, grilled foods, and summer desserts.

1. Grilled Tuna With Peach Salsa

Use a grill pan, broiler, or a charcoal or gas grill to cook this delicious tuna. Make the salsa in advance to give flavors time to blend, and start marinating the tuna an hour or two before serving time.

2. Red Potato Salad With Sour Cream and Dill

This potato salad is made flavorful with the addition of dried dill and chopped dill pickle, along with a tangy mayonnaise and sour cream dressing.

3. Grilled Chicken With Corn Salsa

This easy chicken is first baked until cooked through, then it's grilled and basted with a homemade barbecue sauce and served with a tasty fresh corn and tomato salsa.

4. Zesty Burgers

Grill these burgers or bring them inside and cook them in a stovetop grill pan or broiler. These burgers are made flavorful and zesty with horseradish, mustard, and other seasonings.

Grilled Hamburger Steaks

5. Beef Kabobs

Grill these tasty beef or lamb kabobs or cook under the broiler. Ingredients include beef or lamb cubes, mushrooms, onions, and peppers.

Grilled Pork Kabobs
Vegetable Kabobs

6. Summertime Potato Salad

This egg and potato salad is one of our favorite versions, with chopped celery, red onion, sweet pickle, mayonnaise, and mustard. Use small new potatoes if you can find them!

7. Classic Macaroni Salad

This basic macaroni salad is made with hard-cooked eggs, chopped vegetables, and a sweet-sour seasoned mayonnaise dressing.

8. Cole Slaw With Creamy Tangy Dressing

This is one of my favorite cole slaw recipes, with a tangy sweet but creamy dressing.

9. Quick and Easy Peach Cobbler

This peach cobbler is made with canned peaches and a batter topping.

More Delicious Peach Recipes

10. Easy Blueberry Pudding Cake

This blueberry pudding cake recipe is easy to make, with lemon juice and zest, spices, sugar, butter, and vanilla. Serve this cake with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream or make a vanilla sauce to serve with it.
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