Food & Recipes, Salad, Side dishes |
Panzanella or bread salad is a traditionally Italian dish that normally celebrates the bounty of a summer garden: tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and more. It is also a clever and tasty way to re-purpose stale bread. In the fall and winter it feels silly to make a summer...
Baking, Food & Recipes, Grandma Swan's Cookbook, holidays, Side dishes |
With the holidays in full swing I wanted to share the dinner rolls that I have been making for family events lately. They are an amalgamation of my grandma’s classic yeast spoon roll and the Southern Living dinner rolls I found online. I also add some whole wheat...
Appetizer, Food & Recipes, holidays, Side dishes, Traeger Grilling |
This is a very self indulgent post, it’s all things I love: figs, blue cheese, and Prosciutto. I am drooling just recalling how great these crispy prosciutto wrapped figs tasted, we made a nice dinner out of them by adding a nice dry white wine and big salad. I...
Food & Recipes, Side dishes, Veggies |
These black beans are a modification of an awesome one pot chicken meal that Emeril Lagasse has in his cookbook: Sizzling Skillets and Other One-Pot Wonders, chicken and black beans with chorizo. I loved the black beans that are the base of the chicken dish but I...
Appetizer, Dips and Sauces, Food & Recipes, Side dishes |
Irish pub cheese spread is a great way to start your feast on St. Patrick’s Day. I make mine with roasted garlic and good Irish cheddar because they are two of my favorite things in the world. Many of the other versions of pub cheese I have seen use caraway seeds,...
Baking, Featured, Food & Recipes, Side dishes |
The chili is bubbling away on the stove and you only have about 5 minutes to whip up a side. If you have a good can opener then you can make savory, rich, and moist jalapeno corn bread. This is not a gourmet recipe this is a simple and quick corn bread that tastes...
Food & Recipes, Side dishes, Veggies |
This recipe is a variation on a green bean recipe that my great grandmother would make with fresh green beans, home cured ham hock and homemade ketchup. I have never had great grandma’s version but for years my mother has been trying to recreate this wonderful side...
Food & Recipes, Side dishes, Veggies |
Sometimes just want to get a veggie on the table that everyone will enjoy and that takes little or no effort. That is why I love cinnamon orange acorn squash. It’s fast, simple and so good. I often will pair my acorn squash with something coming off the grill...
Chicken, Food & Recipes, Salad, Side dishes, Uncategorized |
Chicken Curry Salad My chicken curry salad recipe was inspired by one in the Denver Junior League Cookbook, but I have made my own changes and since lost that cookbook, so I can’t really tell you where the Jr League chicken salad ends and mine begins. I have used this...
Food & Recipes, Side dishes |
Ten years living in Texas you are invited to a lot of pot-lucks and BBQs so you better have a go-to covered dish that a cowboy or a Dallas diva will enjoy, mine is Blue Cheese and Green Onion Grits. These grits are the prefect pot-luck dish, yummy hot or at room temp...