This Greek Farro Salad recipe will have everybody coming back for another scoop!

With a 4-year-old in the house, it’s not every day that I put something (that’s not mac and cheese) on the dinner table that EVERY family member loves.

Unexpectedly, this Farro Salad recipe received that reception! With it’s vibrant Mediterranean flavors that balance salty, sweet, briny and acidic, something about it just makes everybody want to take another bite. And another.

My daughter even asked for the leftovers to be packed in her lunch for school the next day!

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Sometimes my recipe inspirations comes from restaurants. Sometimes it’s magazines. And sometimes, there’s nothing else behind it other than I want to put a ton of my favorite ingredients all in one dish.

Like my fried goat cheese salad and shishito pepper recipe before it, this smoked salmon pizza is the last thing. It’s just everything I ever want to eat, put together into one glorious dish.

This pizza or something very similar would probably be included in my last meal on earth. Smoked salmon? Soft eggs? Fresh herbs? Chili crisp? The gang’s all here.

This salmon pizza is a great light meal for a hot day, because it’s meant to be served at room temperature or close to it. This also makes it perfect to cut into small wedges and serve as an appetizer.

Grab a strawberry mule (my drink of choice for my last supper) and let’s get into it!

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This is it! The most popular recipe in the history of Foxes Love Lemons. Chances are, if you’re reading this, you’re here after Googling “salmon pasta” or “pasta with salmon” or some combination of those words.

Welcome! I hope that this recipe is everything you’re looking for and more. And I hope you’ll stick around for some of my other popular recipes, including my Mexican street corn salad recipe, potato cake and crock pot beef stroganoff.

But, are you ready to see what all the fuss about this creamy salmon pasta recipe is about? I’ll let some of the 1200+ reviews (averaging 4.5 stars) speak for themselves:

“This recipe was delicious! It’s something you would be impressed with if you ordered it at a nice restaurant and it’s quick and easy to make at home. This is now in my favorite recipe collection.“

—Jeri Lynn

“This recipe worked so well, and I say this as a timing challenged person. I would make this again and again, not just with salmon, but with shrimp, scallops or even shredded chicken.“

—Holly

“This was relatively simple and easy while delicious. My family ate every bite.“

—Kimberly

“This was so easy, fast and delicious! My toddler and myself devoured it. My toddler was able to help me make dinner and we were able to cook everything in under 20 minutes. Winner winner! Thank you for such a great weeknight recipe!“

—Rachel

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Once I have an open jar of something or the other in the fridge, I pride myself on using it up. I hate food waste! So an open tub of gochujang is an invitation to make Korean meatballs as often as possible.

Recently, it was an open jar of capers. I don’t even know why I originally bought them, I just knew I needed to use them up.

So, I made lemon butter shrimp pasta and creamy salmon pasta, too. But there were still more. Apparently I bought the largest jar of capers to ever exist.

Now, if you Google “how to use up a bunch of capers,” I’m guessing a lot of piccata recipes come up. Piccata sauce is a delicious combination of fresh lemon juice, butter and lots of capers.

Piccata is usually made with chicken or veal, but you know that I’m always making new salmon recipes. Like my pineapple salmon, this salmon piccata recipe is truly a restaurant-quality dish that is actually pretty easy to execute at home.

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When I was a kid, if somebody had tried to serve me pasta with no visible (red) sauce, I’m pretty sure I would have been like “um yeah, no way.”

Luckily, I’ve expanded my palate a bit from the days when Prego represented the finest pasta sauce the world had to offer.

Sometimes, especially in the winter, I still want a great meat sauce rigatoni or lamb bolognese that’s simmered all day, or a hearty piece of cottage cheese lasagna.

But often, my pasta cravings turn to something lighter and fresher, like salmon pesto pasta or Greek yogurt pasta sauce.

I love a well-crafted pasta dish with a combination of flavors and textures and just a light coating of simple sauce. This lemon caper pasta with shrimp is a flavorful weeknight meal that’s easy to make with pantry ingredients.

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Nothing makes my eyes light up at a party like seeing a big spread of appetizers. There’s a reason New Year’s Eve is one of my favorite days, and it’s definitely the savory baked brie, jarcuterie and other New Year’s Eve food!

My absolute favorite kind of appetizer spread? The kind that you get to assemble yourself, like my DIY elote cup bar or even individual charcuterie cups. And if your group of friends and family is anything like mine, everybody has different tastes.

Some people don’t like onions, others can’t get enough. Somebody hates tomatoes, whereas I make my Detroit style pizza recipe with pickled tomato sauce.

I think we can all agree that lots of options never hurt anybody, and that’s what I’m giving you today with this smoked salmon platter!

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This Homemade Tartar Sauce Recipe is Perfect For Fish Fries!

Friday fish fries are common at Midwest Catholic churches and VFW halls during Lent. And even though my family isn’t Catholic, we love attending fish fries!

The fish is almost always delicious, and the people watching can’t be beat. The only thing I don’t love about the tradition is the tartar sauce.

A few churches will make homemade sauce, but most of them serve pre-packaged tartar sauce. I got the crazy idea to make my own tartar sauce and take it with me to fish fries this year, and that’s exactly what I’m going to do.

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You guys, I’ll get to the recipe in a hot second, but let’s just take a moment to process what’s going on under the bowls.

I think I’m developing a reputation in the city-wide Facebook buy/sell/trade group I’m in as that woman that keeps buying rickety old tables.

This isn’t the first rickety old table I’ve purchased, but it’s the best. It’s actually more of a rolling cart than a table, really – you can see the full thing on Instagram.

The previous owners had found it at an antique store. They didn’t know much history about it other than that it’s about one hundred years old, and was used in a factory at some point.

It didn’t fit in with the current decorating scheme of their home, so I basically (safely) sped my car over to their house, cash in hand, loaded it lovingly into my trunk, and brought it home to be with it’s new family.

It’s dirty and rustic and weathered and I’m in love.

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Have you tried cooking with endive at home? It’s a leafy green that, believe it or not, belongs to the daisy family. I see it occasionally in restaurants, but don’t often see home cooks using it. Belgian endive can be found in most larger grocery stores. It kind of looks like a very small, very tight, white and yellow head of Romaine lettuce. While it can certainly be chopped up to add a bitter accent to a mixed green salad, the boat shape of the leaves practically screams “throw a party!” and “fill me with something fun and colorful!”

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This post is an ode to one of my favorite things, bruschetta, and also one of my favorite meals, “appetizer dinner.” When my husband and I eat at restaurants, we generally order several appetizers or small plates instead of entrees. Not only do you get to taste more things that way, but we’ve found that that at a lot of restaurants, the best things on the menu are in the appetizer section.

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