Summer
Crab Boil
We set our crab pots in Puget Sound for Dungeness crab during the summer crab season and sometimes winter. This is a fun dinner, which we like to cook on our outdoor grill. We serve with butter, cocktail sauce and hot sauce.
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Easy Baked Beans
These easy baked beans come together quickly. This recipe can be made with almost any white bean but navy beans work best, since they hold up better during baking. I’ve made adjustments to Madeline’s original handwritten recipe and this has now become a family favorite. If you don’t have a Dutch oven, you can cook…
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Chicken Walnut Grape Salad
Roasted Corn Salsa
Peach Margaritas
For blending drinks, I use a Ninja blender, which I love. It has a six-blade assembly that crushes ice faster and blends ingredients smoother than any other blender I’ve tried. For squeezing juice, I prefer a hand-held citrus press.
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Pineapple Salsa
Basic Barbeque Sauce
This is our go to barbeque sauce, and we just about always have it on hand. But if need be, our kitchen is stocked with all ingredients, so that we can quickly put a batch together. We have not purchased a store brand barbeque sauce in years, since this sauce is the best we’ve tasted.Adapted…
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Paella
A paella pan is needed for this recipe. We purchased an outdoor propane system with pan from the Spanish Table in Seattle.
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Aidan’s Barbeque Sauce
Aidan directed the creation of this sauce for a basic, not too spicy barbeque sauce.
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Chinese Chicken Salad
This salad serves 30, so it’s great for a crowd or will keep for a couple of days without dressing.
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