Food & Recipes, holidays, Side dishes, Veggies |
Everyone makes mashed potatoes holiday meals, and I wanted an alternative side dish. Parsnips are perfect. Stop thinking about it. Just go buy the mascarpone cheese. The addition of the sweet potatoes is nice because of the added sweetness and fluffy texture. Whipped...
Baking, Food & Recipes, Side dishes |
Right now the internet is ablaze with the simple beer bread recipe, but I decided to give it more flavor enter: pesto Guinness Beer Bread. A few weeks into the self-quarantine for the Corona Virus and the easy beer bread recipes keep appearing on my Facebook feed....
Food & Recipes, Salad, Side dishes, Veggies |
So summer is coming and its time to make coleslaw. I wanted some thing with a bit more zing and decided that my summer coleslaw will be cabbage and radish coleslaw with chile lime vinaigrette. This is a bit of a copycat recipe for the Mexican radish slaw that my local...
Food & Recipes, holidays, Side dishes |
Texmex Southern Cornbread Stuffing Texmex Southern Cornbread stuffing is not something I make often; in fact I think it’s been at least a decade since the last time I made a batch. This last week I made jalapeno & cheese cornbread muffins to go with chili and...
Featured, Food & Recipes, Salad, School Lunches, Side dishes, Veggies |
Couscous is a wonderful traditional Middle Eastern grain made from semolina that is versatile and tasty not to mention easy to cook. It is my go to choice for so many applications that I had to share a few ideas about cooking couscous with everyone. I am using the...
Breakfast, Food & Recipes, Side dishes |
Sundays are all about brunch, and easy to make low effort dishes with lots of flavor are a must for any brunch lover. Whether you are recovering from a wild Saturday night or just lazing around the house waiting for football games to start brunch should be filling and...
Food & Recipes, Salad, Side dishes |
So it’s been way too long since I added a new post to this blog, I apologize, or as my father would have said say mea culpa, mea culpa, mea máxima culpa. It’s Father’s Day as I am writing this and thus the nod to my father and the somewhat German inspired Potato...
Food & Recipes, Side dishes, Veggies |
It has been the summer of grilling at our house this year. I quickly realized that quinoa is a perfect side with almost anything coming off the grill as it is easy and flavorful. Plus the leftover quinoa is the next day’s lunch, loaded with whole gains and protein....
Featured, Food & Recipes, Side dishes |
Wild rice with mandarin oranges and grilled vegetables is such a simple side dish that is an ideal accompaniment to everything from beef to fish or chicken. The wild rice I use in this dish is a brown & wild rice mix that also has rye and wheat. Adding the woody...
Featured, Food & Recipes, How To, Side dishes, Veggies |
My husband has become quite the grill master. I think having me to prep and figure out the best ways to grill something has resulted in him really loving to grill more than ever and he is starting to have some rocking specialties. As simple as it is one of the family...
Food & Recipes, Salad, Side dishes, Veggies |
Its spring break!! I stopped at the fruit and vegetable market for the basics just to get us through week before we go out of town for a few days. Then I saw this massive bunch of rainbow chard, I could not resist it was so pretty. I really did not need it but I...
