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4th of July and Memorial Day Patriotic Recipes

Memorial Day and the 4th of July are the perfect time to get grilling and serve stunning red, white, and blue desserts. And we have you covered with our variety of patriotic foods perfect for celebrating!

Serve our Shredded BBQ Chicken Sliders and red white and blue cheesecake salad at your next get together. Or grilled turkey burgers with 30 minute hamburger buns, and a strawberry blueberry salad. No summertime festivities would be complete without a tall, cold glass of lemonade, and this Basil Lemonade might just be our favorite. 

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cheesecake 4th of July salad in a large serving bowl next to a 4th of July table cloth.
Titled graphic collage of 10 summer side dishes.

Summer Side Dishes
Titled graphic collage of 8 memorial day food images.

Memorial Day Recipes
Strawberries topped with cream and sprinkles on a wooden board.

Deviled Strawberries
Smoked chicken thigh with rice on a white plate plus a platter.

Smoked Chicken Thighs
Knorr spinach dip on a serving rectangular bowl with a wooden spoon. Served on top of a round wooden board with crackers and vegetables.

Knorr Spinach Dip Recipe
Plated serving of cake mix peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream.

Easy Peach Cobbler with Cake Mix
Summer dessert on a serving platter next to large ripe red berries.

Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies
Plated serving of pork for dinner.

Smoked Pork Tenderloin
Wooden serving platter filled with shredded BBQ chicken sliders for game day party.

Shredded BBQ Chicken Sliders
Collage of 8 delicious looking Bisquick dessert recipes.

Bisquick Dessert Recipes for Any Occasion
Basil-Lemonade-featured.

Basil Lemonade
Red white and blue salad in small glass cups.

Blueberry Strawberry Salad
Dutch oven pulled pork sliders, topped with slaw and ready for serving.

Shredded Pork Sliders
Peach cobbler pound cake baked in a round white baking dish. Stack of dessert plates and spoons sitting behind the pound cake.

Peach Cobbler Pound Cake
a plate of frosted homemade pop tarts ready to serve.

Wild Blueberry Pop Tarts
overhead: Bisquick apple cobbler in a cast iron pan.

Bisquick Apple Cobbler
Looking down into a bowl of creamy fry sauce.

In n Out Sauce – Copycat Recipe
White baking dish filled with Italian sliders.

Italian Sliders
a white bowl of cannellini bean salad with silverware to the right and a striped napkin on the left with the corner of another bowl of white bean salad showing on the top right.

Italian Bean Salad
cheesecake 4th of July salad in a large serving bowl next to a 4th of July table cloth.

Red White Blue Cheesecake Salad
basting chicken with homemade 3 ingredient bbq sauce.

3 Ingredient BBQ Sauce
a white casserole dish of baked strawberry blueberry cobbler ready to serve with a gold serving spoon.

Strawberry Blueberry Cobbler
Calico beans in the crock pot.

Slow Cooker Calico Beans
a cast iron skillet with peach cobbler.

Bisquick Peach Cobbler
a round casserole dish of blueberry cobbler with a red and white napkin.

Bisquick Blueberry Cobbler
a white casserole dish of blackberry cobbler ready to serve.

Bisquick Blackberry Cobbler
a white casserole dish of Bisquick cherry cobbler with cherry pie filling.

Easy Bisquick Cherry Cobbler
Slow cooker teriyaki ribs slathered with sauce.

Crock Pot Babyback Ribs
sheet pan of freshly baked hamburger buns.

Quick and Easy Hamburger Bun Recipe
Buttermilk brined pork chops.

Buttermilk Pork Chops
burger patties with a bun and sweet potato fried.

Grilled Turkey Burgers