41 gold recipes

If you're family loves chicken, they will simply enjoy eating this scrumptious dish!

Steamed zucchini and yellow squash rounds with garlic, oregano, and extra-virgin olive oil. A fast, diabetic-friendly side dish with only 29 calories per serving.

Chinese-style wilted greens relish with spinach or garland chrysanthemum, sesame oil, and vinegar. A bright, cold side dish served at room temperature or chilled.

Green and wax bean salad with celery, dill, slivered almonds, and croutons in a creamy onion dressing. No-cook side dish ready in 10 minutes.

This tasty twist on salsa will have everyone coming back for more!

Easy, make-ahead side dish perfect for a barbecue or mid-day lunch.

Cold lunch biscuits are sturdy, lightly sweetened lunchbox biscuits made with milk, shortening, and a stiff flour dough. Bake them once and they keep for weeks in a tin.

This is my kind of food, packed with Asian flavor. Lots of miso, tahini, sesame oil...YUM! Loved orange juice in the sauce, a bit sweet, sour and orange-y taste, which I really enjoyed!

Orzo pasta salad chock full of textures (olives, peppers, sweet green peas) and succulent shrimp simply dressed with olive oil and wine vinegar.

Thick udon noodles with a spicy Asian dressing that's easy to make and ready when you are.

Italian asparagus. How to cook asparagus Italian-style. Classic flavor-packed cold marinated asparagus with an onion, caper, lemon and mint dressing. Perfect to make ahead and serve anytime with simple ingredients. It's even vegan and vegetarian.

Chilled Vichyssoise/ Cold Leek and Potato Soup recipe

Chinese cold cucumber salad with soy sauce, sesame oil, and white wine vinegar. A crisp, no-cook side dish that comes together in minutes with just six ingredients.

Cold eggplant Provencale slow-baked for 5 hours with tomatoes, onions, capers, currants, and olive oil. A French-style make-ahead appetizer served chilled with lemon.

Think of this soup as a dessert more than a soup. Indeed, you could serve it as a dessert or as an appetizer. This is summer comfort food at its best.

Cold fruited chicken salad with dried apricots, orange segments, grapes, and toasted almonds in a white wine-vinegar dressing. A light, low-calorie summer lunch.