Monday, May 10, 2010

My Favorite Finds #13 - 1st Holiday of the Summer

The official 1st holiday of the Summer is just a few weeks away......time to plant the tomatoes, dust off the picnic table and fire up the grill!  We grill and/or barbecue just about every weekend during the summer.  We love our hamburgers, brats, ribs, chicken and steaks.  We also love to grill fresh vegetables in our special grilling pan.  This is also the time for get-togethers, picnics and potlucks with family and friends.  My daughter tasted the following dish at an office potluck and told me how delicious it was.  I made it for a Christmas party (though it's a bit more expensive to make in the winter due to the price of the grapes) and it was a big hit!  My daughter made it for our Mother's Day Brunch yesterday, and again, everyone just loved it!  Try it for your next potluck and you, too, will get many compliments and requests for the recipe!

Grape Salad

Ingredients:
1 cup cream cheese, softened
1 cup sour cream
1/3 cup sugar
1-2 teaspoons vanilla extract (to taste)
4 lbs. of grapes (2 lbs green & 2 lbs red or your choice)
3 tablespoons pecans, chopped
3 tablespoons brown sugar

Directions:
Mix together first 4 ingredients. Stir into grapes. Mix together pecans and brown sugar and sprinkle on top of grapes.  Chill. 

4 comments:

  1. how yummy! I love BBQs and hope to do it more often this summer.

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  2. Mmmmm...that sounds yummy and easy to make. Will have to try this soon. Thanks for sharing!

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  3. I have a grill pan like that too! Got it for Christmas. So do you just throw the veggies in or do you do something to them first?

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  4. We always toss the vegies with olive oil and sometimes spices, like Mrs. Dash. To speed up the cooking process, we also cover the top with tin foil. Even the kids love the veggies this way!!

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