12 Recipes for Labor Day Weekend

Let's ease into fall and kick off the weekend with this festive sangria!

Cranberry Apple Cider Sangria

A simple recipe for Cranberry Apple Cider Sangria, made with red wine, orange liqueur, fresh cranberry juice and soft cider. Perfect for celebrating fall and winter!

Cranberry Apple Cider Sangria

Finger foods are fun foods! This one is gluten-free!

Whipped Feta Apple Hazelnut Canapés

No gluten? No problem! Create a tasty canapé appetizer on a slice of apple instead of a slice of baguette or cracker. Topped with whipped feta cheese, chopped hazelnuts and drizzled with honey, this finger food will be appreciated by your gluten-free friends.

Whipped Feta Apple Hazelnut Canapés

Take advantage of those last peaches and make this oh-so-good honeyed peach crostini!

Lemon Ricotta Crostini with Honeyed Peaches

This simple appetizer of Lemon Ricotta Crostini with Honeyed Peaches is incredibly flavourful and so easy to whip up at the last minute!

Lemon Ricotta Crostini with Honeyed Peaches

There's still time for one more watermelon salad!

Greek Watermelon Basil Salad

This summer watermelon salad with fresh Greek flavours from vine-ripened tomatoes, olives, red onion, feta cheese and basil is quick to make and needs no dressing.

Greek Watermelon Basil Salad

Every picnic needs a pasta salad. This post includes tips for how to make the best one!

Summer Veggie Pasta Salad with Feta Dressing

This vegetarian Summer Veggie Pasta Salad with Creamy Feta Dressing is perfect for potluck or bbq parties. Easy and always popular.

Summer Veggie Pasta Salad with Feta Dressing

And, of course, a potato salad!

Potato Salad with Pickled Shallots

This Potato Salad with Pickled Shallots is bursting with flavour from fresh snipped chives, grainy mustard, capers and best of all, pickled shallots! Ideal for picnics and deck parties.

Potato Salad with Pickled Shallots

Keep your meals casual and easy with chicken kabobs!

Easy Thai Chicken Skewers

These succulent spicy Easy Thai Chicken Skewers are quick to prepare, and they're paleo too!

Easy Thai Chicken Skewers

Wings are always a good idea! No air fryer? No problem. This recipe gives oven-baking instructions, too. Simply the best!

Garlic Parmesan Air Fryer Wings

The best garlic parmesan chicken wings, cooked to crispy perfection in an air fryer. These air fryer wings are juicy inside and perfectly crispy outside due to a magic ingredient! An always popular bar or pub snack, now you can make them at home.

Garlic Parmesan Air Fryer Wings

Keep it casual with burgers! These are delicious with or without a bun. Serve with your favourite guacamole or try this tomatillo guac!

Paleo Chicken Fajita Burgers with Tomatillo Guacamole

A 30-minute meal with pizzazz! Spicy Southwestern flavours in juicy paleo chicken fajita burgers, topped with seared peppers and onions and served with tomatillo guacamole!

Paleo Chicken Fajita Burgers with Tomatillo Guacamole

Give summer a send-off and have a treat before the kids head back to school! This ice cream cake is easy to make.

Blackberry Cheesecake Ice Cream Cake

An easy gluten-free frozen dessert. This Blackberry Cheesecake Ice Cream Cake has a filling made with cream cheese, vanilla ice cream and homemade blackberry sauce frozen on top of an almond and oat flour crust.

Blackberry Cheesecake Ice Cream Cake

What's a weekend without at least a little chocolate? Use up the last of your zucchini and make this double chocolate zucchini bread. It tastes like a rich dark chocolate cake!

Rich Grain-Free Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread

This recipe makes a rich dark chocolate zucchini loaf that freezes well. It's free of grains, dairy and sugar if you use Monkfruit sweetener.

Rich Grain-Free Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread

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