Side Dishes

I warned you in my last post that I’ve been overcome with some sort of winter squash obsession. It’s the season, I swear. Just yesterday, I went out to our garden to harvest all the leftover acorn and butternut squash that haven’t been picked yet. Oddly enough, we actually never planted any of these varieties, […]

Wow. If you love flavor, this is the recipe for you. There’s tons of it. It comes from the vinaigrette, which has some rather interesting ingredients in it. The broccoli rabe and the portobello mushrooms add some really nice texture, but really, I think this dish is more about the flavor. If you decide to […]

This side dish took me a bit by surprise. After looking at the recipe, I thought I was going to end up with roasted potatoes that were very similar to the roasted potatoes I’ve been eating my entire life. Interestingly enough, what I had created when they were finished cooking was something very sweet and […]

This maple syrup season has been simply phenomenal. We’re about one month into it, have 10 trees tapped and have already boiled down enough sap to produce 2 gallons of some of the best tasting syrup I’ve ever tasted. Compared to last year, we’re already up a half gallon, which is pretty good. I’m still […]

I’ve been looking around the internet and have seen dozens of roasted cabbage recipes. All of them were prepared in the oven. This makes sense because “roasting” is the action of cooking something in an oven or over an open fire. The thing is, what I’ve also been finding is a lot of “pan roasting” […]

It’s all in the sauce. Whether you want to believe it or not, it’s all in the sauce. If you have deliciously wonderful sauce, you can make almost anything taste good. I just finished preparing the best tasting tomato sauce ever. The funny thing is, I feel like I made something similar a thousand times […]

I’m not sure how I ever missed hearing about the hasselback potato. In my opinion, it’s nothing short of a miracle of nature. It’s tender, extremely flavorful and great at parties. Ever since I made my hasselback potatoes, I’ve wanted to continue on with something similar, but different. During my travels, I bumped into a […]

If you aren’t familiar with the hasselback potato, you should really get to know it. It’s a marvel of nature. It’s something that’s crispy and tender in the same bite, while also bursting with flavor. I just got finished preparing this dish and all I have to say is “wow.” Boy, that was good. The […]

This is one of those recipes I knew I shouldn’t have made. I have no business preparing something with this much cheese in it. Although, I will tell you that it’s probably one (again) of the tastiest things I’ve ever eaten in my life. It’s stupid good. I don’t know if that makes sense, but […]

I have only two items on my culinary bucket list. They are to make homemade mayonnaise and to make homemade pasta. Today, I sort of completed the first one. Let me give you some back story. A few months ago, Laura and I started reading the ingredient lists on the backs of products we regularly […]