Starters, Salads & Sauces

This peach relish tastes a bit on the Indian-side. I had mine with salmon but you could serve it over chicken or pork, too. Plus it tastes fancy enough for company.

Yes, you can have raisins once you stabilize. Just not too many. Use as few as you feel you can get away with and still get the flavor sensation.

Grilling makes Plan Z easy and popular. This dish can be served to a whole family or even as part of an outdoor cookout party.

AKA VP Anger's 65th Birthday Dessert. This super-simple, light and dreamy dessert is easy enough for a weeknight treat and fancy enough to serve to a dinner party.

This will make a great side dish at your table; even your holiday table. And think of this as a way to use up leftover turkey.

The sauce will make you feel so gourmet and it’s very easy to make. You don’t have to spend a lot of time in the kitchen either.

This sauce can be served on steak, chicken, roast beef or even a full-flavored fish like sea bass or halibut.

This sauce is amazing. You can use it on beef, chicken or even a steak-like fish (Swordfish comes to mind. Or Tuna). Also a pork loin chop in Z2. In Z3 you can choose any meat/poultry or fish.

This lovely, light peach salsa can be served with all kinds of light meat and fish. I’d serve it over grilled chicken. I served it last time with sautéed scallops.

As we turn into the last few weeks of summer I'm firing up my grill as much as possible. This meal is easy to prepare, balancing a wonderful protein-packed piece of white meat with a touch of sweet. Rhubarb is that long red stalk with green leaves you see in the supermarket. Though technically a vegetable, rhubarb has a unique sour, fruity taste.

This recipe is designed for your barbecue needs. Of course you can eat it with anything but I had the Korean BBQ Sauce in mind when I paired these up. The Korean sauce is sort of sweet and then this is zippy.

You don’t even have to cook to make this dish! It’s just pick apart a chicken, chop up the veggies and stir the ingredients together. If your teenaged kids like Mexican, let them make this one!

This is a colorful dish that’s also healthy. Fresh and fancy enough to serve to company. No one will miss rice. Easy for a weeknight too.

Dieters rave about taco salad. This one is my new favorite.

Serve with my seared sea scallops or with any fish or sea food. I think grilled shrimp would be great! Or even cooked, cold shrimp would pair nicely with this on a hot day. You can serve the sauce hot or cold.

In a hurry for dinner? Feeling like a cold entrée? This whips up really fast and will remind you of summer even though it includes winter fruit.

Summer grilling is not over yet. This one can be done on the grill, in the broiler, or follow my lead to sear it and roast it in your oven. The last option is used by French restaurants who serve steak.

Makes for a great steak. In the picture I served it with shallot onion rings as a garnish and veggie on the side. You can still have a salad with this too and be within your allotment for ZReduction.

This salad is great with anything grilled. We served it with grilled sea scallops. Yum!

This can be served with any fish for a nice light meal.