Side Dishes

Last week, I added some sub-sections of the Recipe category that can be found in the top navigation bar of this blog. Since I’m up to around 170 shared recipes, I figured it was high time to break things down somewhat. After some deliberation, I came up with the following: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Side Dishes, […]

I’m not sure how long stuffing has been part of holiday dinners, but I’m sure glad someone came up with the idea. I love stuffing. I love all the varieties that people have thought of and I love the fact that there’s always lots of leftovers. Stuffing, the next day, may very well be better […]

I have three more recipes from our Christmas Eve and Christmas Day dinners that I’d like to share with you. Today, it’s going to be a really nice side dish. Tomorrow will be the main course and the next day will be some awesome apple stuffing. I’ll try to stay focused on the roasted vegetables […]

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 […]