Caprese Salad Recipe

Caprese Salad Recipe

When the sun is out, easy fresh recipes are IN. Summer lends itself to relaxing and easy-peasy recipes without fussing in the kitchen. This refreshingly delicious summer salad, featuring fresh tomatoes, basil, garlic, and Cherchies Basil Pizzazz Seasoning, allows you to embrace summer’s bounty while leaving you more time to enjoy the lazy days of summer.

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Ingredients

• 1 pint of red grape or cherry tomatoes, sliced in half

• 1 pint of yellow grape or cherry tomatoes, sliced in half

• 1 large container of small mozzarella balls, sliced in half

• salt and pepper to taste

• 1/2 cup Cherchies Perfect Pesto Recipe

• 1/4 cup olive oil

Preparation

Slice tomatoes and mozarella cheese in half and put into a large bowl.  Season with salt and pepper.  Add Cherchies Perfect Pesto and olive oil to bowl.  Combine all ingredients and refrigerate for at least an hour, to allow flavors to intensify.  Serve cold or at room temperature.  Enjoy!

Garlic Stuffed Flank Steak Recipe

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Garlic Stuffed Flank Steak Recipe

This dish has it all, it's quick, it's easy, and it's elegant.  I love that this dish can be made ahead, but it's the presentation that makes this entree special.  Your guests will think you spent hours preparing this meal.  Shhh, don't tell them!

Ingredients

• 1 Tablespoon (Tbsb.) olive oil
• 1 1/2- 2 lbs. flank steak pounded to 1/2 inch thickness
• wooden skewers (soaked 30 minutes before grilling)
• 4 oz. cream cheese, room temperature
• 1 Tablespoon (Tbsp) Cherchies®Garlic Seasoning
• 1/2 teaspoon (tsp.) pepper
• 1 cup baby spinach, roughly chopped
• 1 large red pepper, chopped
• 1 Tablespoon (Tbsp.) Cherchies®Pepper Pizzazz Seasoning or Cherchies®Lem 'n Pepper Seasoning

Preparation

If cooking immediately, soak skewers 30 minutes before cooking meat.  

Prepare the cream cheese mixture and the meat.  Mix together the cream cheese, garlic seasoning, and pepper and set aside.  Pound the flank steak between two sheets of plastic until the meat is about 1/2 inch thick.  Generously season both sides of the flank steak with Pepper Pizzazz or Lem 'n Pepper Seasonings.

Spread the seasoned flank steak with the cream cheese mixture.

Add the chopped pepper and spinach. Carefully roll the meat with plastic wrap (Use the same plastic that you used to pound the meat).  If going to cook immediately, take the soaked skewers and pierce the steak roll with the skewers about 1 inch apart.  (If making ahead, wrap rolled meat in plastic and refrigerate, making sure to take meat out 30 minutes before cooking).

Turn griddle or pan on medium and drizzle with olive oil.  Slice the steak roll between the skewers and add the steak skewers to the griddle or pan.  Cook on each side for a few minutes or until done to your preferance (Pink, no pink...).  Your family or friends will think you are a culinary genius!  Enjoy!

Cheesy Guacamole Bites Recipe

Cheesy Guacamole Bites Recipe

This appetizer is super easy and a great way to use leftover guacamole. Let's face it: Guacamole itself is perfection, but turning it into these bite-sized morsels is heaven. The combination of cheese, guacamole, Cherchies® Chardonnay Lime & Cilantro Seasoning, Cherchies® Select Grilling Rub & Seasoning Blend, and spicy sauce is a Tex-Mex party in your mouth!

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Ingredients

• Shredded cheese (Cheddar or Monterey Jack work well, or a combination of both)

• 1 melon ball scooper (spoon will work fine too)

• 2 ripe avocados

• 1/2 cup Cherchies Oh Soo Simple Salsa Recipe

• 1 Tablespoon (Tbsp.) (or more to taste) Cherchies Chardonnay Lime & Cilantro Seasoning

• 1 lime

• 1/2 red onion, chopped

• 2 Tablespoons (Tbsp) mayonnaise

• 1 Tablespoon Cherchies® Select Grilling Rub & Seasoning

• Parchment paper

• Small (quart size) resealable plastic bag

• Baking sheets

Preparation (Guacamole photos included on Chardonnay Guacamole Recipe)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  While oven is warming, prepare the guacamole.  Halve avocados, and remove pits with a knife. (Put blade into pit, and gently twist to remove). Make small slits in avocado shells with a knife, and scoop out the avocado.

In a medium bowl, mash avocados with a fork.  Depending on your "chunk level" mash until desired consistency (I like to have my guacamole on the chunkier side).  

Slice lime and squeeze juice into the bowl.  Stir.

Add salsa, Cherchies Chardonnay Lime & Cilantro Seasoning, chopped onions and mix everything together.  Set aside.

In a small bowl, combine the mayonnaise and the Cherchies® Select Grilling Rub & Seasoning.  Carefully scoop mayonnaise mixture into the corner of a small resealable plastic bag (this will act as your decorating bag), and snip a tiny corner off the end of the bag (or scoop the mixture into a decorating tool).

Line baking sheet with parchment paper and sprinkle about 1-2 Tablespoons (Tbsp) of cheese onto parchment paper, creating compact mounds of cheese.  Bake in the oven for a few minutes. You will need to watch closely, so the cheese doesn't burn.  Allow cheese to cool for a few minutes then carefully transfer to a platter with a spatula.

Using a melon ball scooper or spoon, dollop a scoop of guacamole on top of the cooled cheese disc. Decorate the guacamole bites with the mayonnaise/grilling seasoning mixture.  Ole!

Herbed Corn on the Cob Recipe

Cilantro Lime Corn on the Cob Recipe

Corn on the cob, a quintessential must for summer!  For this recipe, we've spiced things up and decided to try our Chardonnay Lime & Cilantro Seasoning on corn.  Oh my goodness!  As if corn on the cob, slathered with butter, could get any better!  It will definitely be a party in your mouth.  

Ingredients

• Corn

• 1/2 stick of butter, melted (more depending on amount of corn)

• Cherchies® Chardonnay Lime & Cilantro Seasoning (1 teaspoon (Tsp) to for each ear of corn or more depending on taste). Feel free to substitute any of our other seasoning blends such as Cherchies® Lem 'n Dill, Cherchies®Garlic Seasoning, Cherchies® Select Grilling Rub and Seasoning, and for a spicier flair, try our Cherchies® Salsa Seasoning with Lime, Cherchies® Lem 'n Pepper Spicy Blend, or Cherchies® Pepper Pizzazz seasoning blends.

Preparation

Fill a large pot with water.  Turn stove on high.  Place pot on the stove and when water comes to a boil, place corn in the water.  Cook the corn for about three minutes, or until corn is done to your likeness. 

While corn is cooking, melt butter and  Cherchies® Chardonnay Lime & Cilantro Seasoning in a microwave.  Try our other seasoning blends to "spice things up".

Drain corn and pour butter mixture over corn.  Enjoy!