PIN Grilled Chicken with Balsamic Vinegar to try it later!

This amazingly delicious Grilled Chicken with Balsamic Vinegar is the recipe I’m reminding you about for this week’s Friday Favorites pick! And many years ago when I was the teacher’s association president I made this chicken for a district insurance committee meeting. People loved it, and then several years later I saw someone who had eaten it that day and she asked me for the recipe!

If you serve a recipe and someone still remembers it years later, you know it’s a very good recipe, right? This balsamic grilled chicken recipe is still a hit every time I make it. And grilling season is finally here again, which always makes me happy!

This recipe makes enough marinade for eight chicken breasts, making it perfect to make for guests. I encourage you to make the full amount if that works in your household, because leftover chicken is tasty served over salad or tossed into a stir-fry. But even if you opt not to make the full amount, I’m urging you to try this recipe for grilled chicken flavored with balsamic vinegar right away!

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PIN the Tuna Lettuce Wraps to try them later!

I first made Tuna Lettuce Wraps for the blog quite a few years ago, and for a long time this was on my huge list of recipes that needed a photo update! And then when I started making the tuna lettuce wraps to take new photos I realized I was out of celery. Plus there was an avocado in the fridge that was calling my name! So the recipe morphed into a slightly-updated version of this favorite lunch.

Besides the addition of tomato and avocado, there are a couple of important things that bump this up from regular tuna sandwiches. One is using a flavorful tuna, and I’m definitely a fan of tuna packed in olive oil for a recipe like this!

The tuna is mixed with a dressing that includes mayo, Dijon mustard, lemon juice, celery seed, and a little salt or Vege-Sal. That’s combined with the tuna plus capers, dill pickle relish, and thinly sliced green onion. This makes a tuna salad mixture that’s a perfect combination with the crispy lettuce.

If you want to see exactly how this recipe was updated, here’s the original recipe for Tuna Lettuce Wraps I’ve made so many times! Both versions of this are delicious; I hope you try one soon!

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PIN the Chicken Salad with Basil to try it later!

Today I’m reminding you about this amazing Chicken Salad with Basil! This is a recipe you should make as soon as you see basil plants showing up in the grocery store. OR if you have basil growing in your garden, you can make it it all summer long! 

I’m a huge fan of fresh basil, and I’ve been growing basil and freezing the basil for many years, so I’m excited when basil season gets started every year. And this basil-loaded chicken salad recipe is one of my favorite summer salads. Through the years I’ve decided you just can’t ever put too much chopped basil in this salad.

And yes, I used the word SUMMER, but please don’t hesitate to make this salad any time you have chicken and fresh basil on hand! If you have to buy basil in the grocery store you can get away with using less in this recipe. But please try it if you’re a fan of these flavors. I could eat this over and over again and never get tired of it!

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PIN the Instant Pot Teriyaki Chicken recipe to try it later!

Instant Pot Teriyaki Chicken is a recipe that was inspired by some cooking experiences from my past! Years ago I learned to make Teriyaki Chicken from a friend who had lived in Hawaii and gotten the recipe there. And that Teriyaki Chicken recipe was delicious (but loaded with sugar) so in the early days of the blog I adapted it into a version of Baked Teriyaki Chicken that was Sugar-Free, replacing the sugar with a low-carb Sweetener.

Kara and I looked at recipes around the web when we decided to try making this favorite chicken dish in the Instant Pot. But it was the perfect easy 5-ingredient sugar-free sauce from that earlier recipe that mostly inspired the Instant Pot Teriyaki Chicken we came up with!

This flavorful chicken only needs four minutes under pressure; then we removed the strips of chicken and broke it apart into chunks while we simmered the sauce. We did thicken the sauce with a teeny-tiny bit of cornstarch, but this is still very low in carbs! If you like Teriyaki flavors, I hope you try it soon.

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PIN the Arugula Salad with Goat Cheese to try it later!

This colorful Arugula Salad with Goat Cheese also has artichoke hearts and sweet mini-peppers, and this is a combination I absolutely love. And we’re entering into the time of year when nothing seems better than salad as a tasty side dish for something cooked on the grill! I love salads of every kind, something that’s probably obvious if you follow my blog.

And long-time readers might have noticed my fondness for the peppery greens called Arugula. I know some people aren’t really fans, but I love the sharp spicy flavor and those clamshells of arugula find their way into my grocery cart quite often. I’ve been making fun salad combinations with arugula since the very early days of my blog!

And this favorite arugula salad has goat cheese, which is one of my other favorite ingredients! If you’re also a fan, be generous with the goat cheese like we were when we took these photos, and I bet you’ll love it!

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PIN the Curried Chicken Salad to try it later!

Curried Chicken Salad is a recipe I’ve been waiting to feature, because in Utah we kept getting rainy weather so I thought cold chicken and asparagus salad might be pushing it. But I noticed when I checked my blog stats that a few salad recipes had gone crazy on Pinterest, so I decided some of you are ready for salads!

I’m a huge salad fan, and some of my favorite restaurant meals are salads that I order over and over and never get tired of. And when I ate leftovers from this salad for breakfast the day after we shot the new photos, I wished there had been a bit more left!

We made a few changes to this salad recipe when we updated it, including switching out the peanuts in the original salad for pine nuts, which were an amazing change! Here’s the printer-friendly version of the original recipe, in case anyone was a fan of the older version.

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PIN Artichoke Heart Salad to try it later!

This amazing Artichoke Hearts Salad is my idea of the perfect dish to make for a special meal or a party, and I’m a life-long fan of artichokes! This salad has artichoke hearts, roasted red peppers, and capers, with finely diced red onion and sliced basil bumping up the flavors. But it’s the roasted artichoke hearts that make this salad so much of a wow.

You can make the artichoke salad ahead and chill, or it can sit for hours at room temperature. That which makes it perfect for summer entertaining, but I can also imagine this salad served warm on a buffet at a holiday party.

I bet this is going to disappear pretty quickly no matter who you serve it to! If you’re also enthusiastic about artichoke hearts, I hope you make it soon.

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PIN the No-Bake Cherry Cheesecake to try it later!

This delicious No-Bake Cherry Cheesecake is from a post in the early days of my blog that originally had two recipes. And I love both of the low-carb cheesecakes that were featured together for a blogging event. Now I’m happy to have them in separate posts, which I think will be less confusing.

When we tested this recipe, Kara and I really enjoyed the no-bake cheesecake with no-sugar-added cherry topping. Kara took some home, and that topping was also a hit with her kids. But the cheesecakes would also be delicious topped with fresh berries or other fresh fruit of your choice.

I hope you will try this recipe when you need an easy treat for a special occasion! And it’s perfect for Mother’s Day, or for the warmer weather coming up.

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PIN the strawberry and spinach salad recipe to try it later!

This Strawberry Spinach Salad is a recipe I originally got from a reader named Robin Oliver, and it’s been a favorite on the site through the years. And I’m reminding you about it today because I think this would be perfect for Mother’s Day!

I no longer have a garden where dill is growing. But I’m still intrigued with the idea of dill in a strawberry and spinach salad, and I didn’t mind buying a little package of fresh dill at the store. This salad also has a delightful slightly-sweet dressing with a touch of dry mustard and onion powder giving it a sweet and savory combination of flavors.

I used my favorite sweetener of course, to make my Strawberry Spinach Salad lower in sugar, and when we tasted the dressing using Monkfruit sweetener we decided some people might like to make it even slightly sweeter, so I’m giving you that option..

If you don’t like dill, or don’t have any fresh dill in your garden I think this salad would also be delicious with chopped sweet basil! This is a lovely salad for a special occasion; hope you enjoy!

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PIN the Low-Carb Chicken Enchiladas to try them later!

These Low-Carb Chicken Enchiladas are a favorite recipe I’m reminding you about for Friday Favorites this week. I bet this is a Mexican dinner you’re going to love! And recently I discovered the nutritional calculator I first used didn’t always calculated the carbs correctly for low-carb tortillas. So these enchiladas are even lower in carbs than I first thought!

This is one of those Denny Family Recipes that has good memories for me. Years ago my nephew Jake and I made a canned soup version of Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas when I was visiting my sister and her family. Of course that was delicious, but loaded with carbs!

Fast forward to when Jake had moved to Salt Lake and was coming to cook with me every other week, and we decided to create a low-carb version of chicken enchiladas to share on Kalyn’s Kitchen. And after quite a few tries we ended up with this delicious recipe. And if you’re looking for something to make for Cinco de Mayo in a few weeks, this will be just the thing!

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