Side Dish
Let the Naturally Sweet Flavor of This Vegetable Surprise You Do you ever look at food magazines and wonder how they create such elegant looking meals? Surprisingly, the answer more often than not is “less is more”. I’ve found throughout my many years of experience that a long list of ingredients is not necessary to [...]
You Don’t Have to Wait for a Camp Out to Have a Fun Hobo Dinner This past summer, my family went camping a few times, and there is nothing more fun to the kids than cooking up the classic “hobo meal”. This is when you take meat, vegetables, potatoes, and some seasonings, wrap it all [...]
Banish Broccoli Hate With This Delicious Recipe Has there ever been a tougher struggle than getting your family to eat vegetables? And who can blame them really? In a world filled with baked mac and cheese or mashed potatoes and gravy, who would want to waste even an inch of stomach space on broccoli? But [...]
Feed Your Family or a Crowd with an Easy Slow Cooker Baked Potato Lately I’ve been in a slow cooker phase, and for good reason: the heat! With summer winding down, the last little bits of heat have been making it impossible for me to want to stand over a hot stove all night making [...]
Cheesy, Herby Biscuits Are the Perfect Side for Any Dinner Raise your hand if you’ve ever been to a restaurant just for the bread that they serve with the meal? No? Just me? Well one of my favorite places to eat specifically for the bread is Red Lobster. The Cheddar Bay Biscuits are to die [...]
Macaroni and Cheese Goes Portable With This Quick Twist I’m a sucker for anything cooked in a muffin tin. From muffins to egg cups, I just think they are so adorable with their tiny little handheld shape. But when I saw this recipe come up on my Pinterest feed, I thought surely there is no [...]
Transform Your Favorite Jalapeno Poppers With This Homemade Bread Around my house, there are two opinions on spicy food: love it and hate it. I am personally in the love it camp, and sometimes I can’t resist throwing a little extra spice into a meal. I adore jalapeno poppers, especially when they involve bacon. Spicy [...]
A Fast Yeast Bread? No, It’s Not Too Good to Be True There is nothing more intimidating to me as a cook than homemade bread. I bought a bread machine, years ago, and never looked back. However, there’s no denying that making homemade bread, even in a machine, takes quite a while. If you can’t [...]
Are You Team Pecan Or Team Marshmallow Sweet Potato Casserole is my favorite Thanksgiving side. Growing up a fight often ensued over toppings. Soon we had two every year, one smothered in marshmallows and another covered in pecans. I always grabbed a large helping of each. Our table was spread with traditional recipes passed down [...]
Do You Need A Big Bowl of Comfort? Well Here it Is! I am always sad to the summer ending. The warm nights and long days disappear into fall all too quickly. My least favorite part about the end of my favorite season is that all the abundance of fresh vegetables in my garden is [...]