BBQ Chicken Salad

The days are longer, the sun is shining, and I feel summer coming! I love summer food. The barbecues, the watermelon, salads, the popsicles, did I mention watermelon?  A family favorite of ours is BBQ chicken salad. It is incredibly fast, delicious, and screams summer.

Chimichurri (or Green Gold)

Our society has a bit of a love-hate recipe with Gwyneth Paltrow, and I'm no different. I subscribe to the GOOP newsletter, but I regularly end up deleting it with an eye roll. The recommendations are often completely out of touch with my normal-person lifestyle. $400 cleanses? Travel guides for the Hamptons? $900 candlesticks? That said, the woman knows how to cook, and I'm a big fan of her cookbook "It's All Good." Although not all recipes in the cookbook are slam dunks and a few are plain ridiculous (fish roasted in salt anyone?), there are also some real winners.