Orzo and Snap Pea Salad

This quick and easy orzo salad is packed with healthy veggies and tossed in a delicious olive oil and lemon dressing. An amazing one-pot dish from Yahoo! Food.

Were you expecting a pumpkin recipe today? Not so fast. This week has been one of the hottest we’ve had all summer in NYC, so pumpkin needs to wait a few weeks! I’m still cooking summery dishes and loving it! Like this Orzo and Snap Pea Salad, with yellow squash and zucchini. This is an easy one-pot meal that is the perfect light dinner!

This recipe comes from Yahoo! Food, which is one of my new favorite sites for all things food. There are so many awesome recipes, interesting articles, and handy tips – I could spend hours browsing their website!

I’m always struggling with what to make for dinner. After a long day of work, I just don’t have time to make something complicated. Nor do I want to do a ton of dishes! So I absolutely love one-pot meals.

The veggies in this salad cook in the same pot with the orzo – you just toss them in for the last 3 minutes of the orzo cooking time. Love that! The whole mixture is tossed with a simple olive oil and lemon juice dressing, seasoned with salt and pepper, and topped with a generous sprinkling of Parmesan.

For me, the more Parmesan, the better! It is actually kind of embarrassing when we go out to Italian restaurants and the waiter is grating fresh cheese on my pasta – they try to stop and I make them keep grating until I have a small mountain of parm…it is just so good!

To get the recipe for this easy and delicious Orzo and Snap Pea Salad, head on over to Yahoo! Food.

If you aren’t familiar with Yahoo! Food, it is an incredible collection of beautiful photos, delicious recipes, stories on the latest food trends and great cooking tools and techniques – pretty much a one stop shop for foodies and cooks!

Their all-star team of editors includes Managing Editor Sarah McColl; former Bon Appetit senior web editor, Julia Bainbridge; Rachel Tepper who joined from Huffington Post Food; and Alex Van Buren, who has written for Bon Appetit, Gourmet, and Martha Stewart Living. Talk about industry knowledge!  They are partnering with some of the best publishers in the business, including Bon Appetit, Epicurious, Food52, and Martha Stewart.

I seriously can spend hours browsing their content, and there are so many recipes I’m dying to try. Like these:

DIY Croissants. Only 4 ingredients (and no, one of them is not refrigerated crescent dough)
Parker House Rolls – so soft and pillowy!
Caramel Corn – this looks surprisingly easy, and so addicting!

Click here to get the recipe for this easy and delicious Orzo Salad on Yahoo! Food’s website!

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Looking for more easy dinner ideas? I love quick and easy salads, like these:

Charlie Bird’s Farro Salad

Greek Tortellini Pasta Salad

Quinoa Salad with Asparagus and Tomatoes in a Basil Vinaigrette

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