Side Dishes

This year, I had quite a wonderful bounty of cucumbers from our vegetable garden. We have been enjoying them sliced up in our salads and with various other dishes. I wanted to make them into pickles, but I didn’t want to go through the hassle of jarring them. The thought of long-time storage of pickles […]

I’ve got a great idea for you. The next time you go to the grocery store, pick up the small list of ingredients I share below and make yourself and whoever you eat lunch or dinner with some nice tomato and basil bruschette. It’ll take just a few minutes and you’ll enjoy something that’s eaten […]

I’ve got a big Mediterranean cookbook and an even bigger Italian cookbook that I’ve been neglecting for some time. As I browse around online, it’s all too easy to stumble across a great looking recipe that I add to my list. I get all caught up in these online recipes that I fail to use […]

Over the past week, I’ve prepared a few different dishes that I’ve found to be quite worthwhile. I’ll post one of them here, down below, and then I’ll write another post, probably tomorrow, sharing the other one. Today’s recipe is for a super-easy to make potato and asparagus salad and tomorrow’s is for a scallop […]

St. Patrick’s Day is one of my favorite holidays. I don’t do all that much during the day, but at night, I always find time to make a nice dinner. We usually focus on the side dishes because that’s where all the potatoes are found. I do love my potatoes and when they’re creatively mashed […]

I was flipping through some web pages last week when I stumbled upon a delicious looking potato salad that called for none other than sweet potatoes. These are my favorite, so I had to dig in further to see what was going on. As it turned out, the sweet potatoes weren’t alone. They sidled right […]

If you’re looking for an easy to put together and a very good tasting side dish for pretty much any occasion, I’ve got one for you. You have to love mushrooms though because that’s the primary ingredient in the dish. I found this recipe in one of my cookbooks and even though I didn’t need […]

I found a really great appetizer recipe the other day that looked like it was a snap to put together, so I added the ingredients to my shopping list and picked everything up from the grocery store. Since we ate leftovers for last night’s dinner, I decided to add these broccoli melts to the mix. […]

I don’t know what it is about tomatoes, basil and mozzarella that makes me so hungry. Perhaps it’s because those three ingredients are (in my opinion) the most pure on earth. Can you get any better? Nice ripe tomato slices, fresh basil from the back yard garden and some soft and wonderfully salty mozzarella cheese […]

Every time I make risotto, I think I’m making something elegant and sophisticated. That’s probably because I’ve seen Gordon Ramsay prepare this dish a thousand times. He’s an awesome chef and if this is one of his favorites, it must be something special. The truth of the matter is that risotto is just rice. Now […]