Side Dish
Now You Can Make This Mexican Street Food In Your Own Home. This time of year, my mind is positively besotted with the huge amounts, and the wide variety, of fresh produce available in my local markets. But I really prefer to cut out the middleman altogether and buy my fresh produce directly from the [...]
Versatile, Refreshing Dip That Also Can Be Served as a Side Dish. By now, you have probably heard of the very popular Mexican street corn, known as Elotes. It is cooked in the husks, and when it is done, the husks are peeled back and it is smothered in some sort of creamy topping and [...]
Fall In Love With The Sweetness Of Roasted Veggies! I can always count on Joanna to come up with new and interesting dishes, and this one is certainly no exception. The mix of veggies – mushrooms, cauliflower and tomatoes – is not one that I would have thought of combining on my own, but it [...]
What’s Quick, Easy and Bursting with Flavor? The next time your family or friends gather for a potluck lunch or dinner, surprise them with this reinvention of the old tried-and-true potluck staple: pasta salad. This fresh, new combination is a real crowd-pleaser. Those who have never tried avocado, or who think they don’t like avocado, [...]
Your Family Will Go Nuts For This Delicious Dinner! Ever since we were seniors in high school my best friend and I have had a tradition on the last Friday of every month. We go out to dinner after work and then buy tickets to the movie with the most seats open to see if [...]
Wrap It Up, I’ll Take It! I’m a big fan of wraps these days. They are just the perfect amount of carbs for me to have for a light lunch, without getting carb overload and drifting off to la-la land in a carb-induced stupor after lunch. Or maybe even just giving in to my lassitude [...]
How Could Anything This Scrumptious Actually Be Good for You? Quinoa (pronounced (KEEN-wah) is an ancient grain-like edible seed of a plant in the goosefoot plant family, which grows in the Andes Mountains, mainly in Bolivia and Peru. People have been eating it for thousands of years. Although it is really a seed, and not [...]
Great for Your Eyes – Tasty in Your Tummy! Although these are known as Spicy Korean Carrots, they really are not, strictly speaking, a normal part of Korean cuisine. It is thought that this dish was first created by Korean immigrants to the former Soviet Union. The Koreans have a national dish, called Kimchi, that [...]
Super Easy – Super Yummy – Super….Slow? What would summertime be without sweet corn? Well, it would be a lot of things, obviously, but it wouldn’t be nearly as tasty! But we all know that summer, like all good things, is fleeting in nature and comes to an end all too soon. Here is a [...]
Ole! Ole! Try This Salad Today! I am absolutely besotted with Mexican food! Not the kind you get at a fast food chain restaurant drive-through window, although that will do, in a pinch. We have been brainwashed by these chains into believing that Mexican people only cook and eat tacos and burritos. I am talking [...]