This easy 5-ingredient couscous recipe combines the Mediterranean flavors of sun-dried tomatoes, green onion, toasted pine nuts and feta cheese for a healthy 10-minute side dish. This recipe is brought to you by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Mamma Mia! Here we go ... continue reading... about Easy Couscous with Sun-Dried Tomato and Feta
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How to Cook Instant Pot Butternut Squash
One of the best features of the Instant Pot pressure cooker is when vegetables like butternut squash can go from gourd to gourmet in just 3 minutes cooking time. Who doesn't have time for that? You guys asked for more Instant Pot recipes besides those in my archives, and ... continue reading... about How to Cook Instant Pot Butternut Squash
11 Use It Up Zucchini Recipes
These 11 recipes are sure to answer question of what to make with zucchini and cure your healthy recipe cravings at the same time. I am 100% for fresh produce--but things can get a little out of hand in the garden this time of year, know what I mean? If you're like me, ... continue reading... about 11 Use It Up Zucchini Recipes
Easy Lemon Rice Recipe
At our house, this easy lemon rice is a side dish staple and with just 5 ingredients, it’s a super simple way to jazz up plain old white rice any day of the week. No matter where your set your plate, it's likely that rice will be one of the side dishes served on any ... continue reading... about Easy Lemon Rice Recipe
31 Quick and Healthy Veggie Side Dishes in 30 Minutes or Less
Getting your fill of seasonal vegetables just got easier with this list of 31 quick and healthy seasonal vegetable side dishes that can be prepped in 30 minutes or less. This time of year brings on a love/hate relationship with the season. On the one hand, it can be ... continue reading... about 31 Quick and Healthy Veggie Side Dishes in 30 Minutes or Less
Red White and Blue Watermelon Blueberry Fruit Salad
Juicy watermelon, sweet bursts of blueberries and crunchy jicama dressed with a simple honey and lime dressing make this red, white, and blue salad a favorite worthy of all the fireworks all summer long. This is a guest post from my mom. We wrote together while on a family ... continue reading... about Red White and Blue Watermelon Blueberry Fruit Salad
Creamy Dilled Red Potato Salad
This easy potato salad skips the mustard, egg, and celery to keep things super simple with a sauce of mayo and sour cream (or healthy Greek yogurt) over slightly smashed baby red potatoes to create a super creamy potato salad that's brightened up with a dose of fresh dill ready ... continue reading... about Creamy Dilled Red Potato Salad
Easy Broccoli with Feta Cheese
Everyone knows broccoli is healthy for your body and is a superfood powerhouse that's high in fiber too. While it's delicious served raw and steamed, my favorite way to eat it these days is roasted in the skillet. Most often when I choose a recipe to feature here from a cookbook ... continue reading... about Easy Broccoli with Feta Cheese
Easy Creamed Swiss Chard with Garlic Breadcrumbs
Healthy swiss chard gets the comfort food treatment thanks to a light but creamy sauce topped with crispy garlic panko breadcrumbs that make a recipe so good it'll give creamed spinach a run for it's "most-loved side dish" title. This post is brought to you by McCormick Swiss ... continue reading... about Easy Creamed Swiss Chard with Garlic Breadcrumbs
Buttermilk Blue Cheese Mashed Potatoes
Butter and the tang of buttermilk with blue cheese give these 5 ingredient mashed potatoes a rich flavor that pairs perfectly with chicken, beef or pork. It's okay to admit it. We all know it's true. The best part of dinner, especially when it's a holiday dinner, is the side ... continue reading... about Buttermilk Blue Cheese Mashed Potatoes
Easy 5-Minute Parmesan Zucchini
It takes just three ingredients (plus salt and pepper) and about five minutes to create this zucchini side dish that easily slides into just about any main meal menu plan. So you've answered the question of what the heck you're going to fix for dinner tonight. Congratulations! ... continue reading... about Easy 5-Minute Parmesan Zucchini
Lighter Penne alla Vodka Recipe
This classic and oh so easy American-Italian penne alla vodka recipe got a nip and a tuck with a lightened up ingredient that cuts the calorie count but keeps it creamy, making it a dish you'll have no regrets having seconds of as a main meal or a tasty side dish. This post ... continue reading... about Lighter Penne alla Vodka Recipe
Macaroni Salad with Smoked Mozzarella and Proscuitto
This easy, tangy pasta salad mixes traditional macaroni salad with Mediterranean flavors to create a new family favorite potluck salad. Common etiquette rules that if you're invited to a friendly BBQ, you offer to bring something to add to the pot. So when I ask the big ... continue reading... about Macaroni Salad with Smoked Mozzarella and Proscuitto
Broccoli and Shiitake Mushrooms With or Without Soba Noodles
Hearty soba noodles are tossed with stir-fried broccoli and shiitake mushrooms and ponzu sauce for an easy, healthy, and delicious dish that pairs well with any protein. I tend to get into the trap of not always sharing our tried and true dishes. The ones we eat over, and over, ... continue reading... about Broccoli and Shiitake Mushrooms With or Without Soba Noodles
Easy Lemon Orzo Faux Risotto
Say it ain't faux! Yes it is! Faux ri-soh-tto to be exact. I'm a big believer in real stuff. Real butter. Check. Real friends. They're the only kind. Real flowers instead of fake? Always. So why go faux with risotto? 1. In my humble cooking opinion, using orzo makes ... continue reading... about Easy Lemon Orzo Faux Risotto
Sweet Corn, Gouda and Farro Risotto Plus 15 More Farro Recipes You’ll Love Forever
Move over quinoa, there's a new grain in town. Well, now, wait a minute. Farro is far from new with its roots running deep, deep, deep (pun intended) and this ancient grain is making major waves in the foodie scene. The 90's were all about couscous (which I still ... continue reading... about Sweet Corn, Gouda and Farro Risotto Plus 15 More Farro Recipes You’ll Love Forever
Sweet Carrots with Tarragon and My Easter Inspired Faves
Glazing. Usually reserved for doughnuts, bone-in hams and the special technique my husband uses to make old and tired 1980’s honey oak cabinets magically transform into bright and white brand spakin’ new kitchen cubpoards. He's a staining magician, that guy. But today ‘da ... continue reading... about Sweet Carrots with Tarragon and My Easter Inspired Faves
Fontina Polenta and Easy Marinara
It sounded like a freight train running into our house. And I thought my dog was dying. We’ve had a winter that has piled the snow higher in our neighborhood than nearly any other along the benches of the mountains where we live. This winter has put a toll on the ... continue reading... about Fontina Polenta and Easy Marinara
Friday Faves and Pancetta and Hazelnut Green Beans
With turkey-lurkey day right around the corner everyone is scouting out side dishes to dress up the white bird. Traditional green bean casserole surely holds a soft spot in my heart and I can never turn up my nose at creamy, onion topped green beans. Of course I have to ... continue reading... about Friday Faves and Pancetta and Hazelnut Green Beans
Friday Faves and Maple Chipotle Sweet Potatoes
For so many, this week cannot get over soon enough. The focus has certainly been on the weather fiasco that has swept away homes and memories along the upper East Coast. With so many people who will be digging out from under Sandy’s destruction for some time ahead, it’s hard ... continue reading... about Friday Faves and Maple Chipotle Sweet Potatoes
Friday Faves and Smokey Corn with Bacon
The farmer's markets in my neck of the woods are at their peak, harvesting all sorts of goodies and selling out to long lines of anxious customers waiting with baited breath to succumb to their favorite fall flavors. Last week I made the voyage to the Wednesday Park City ... continue reading... about Friday Faves and Smokey Corn with Bacon
10 Great Corn Recipes plus Grilled Corn and Pasilla Pepper Salad
Corn. It's the new black. It's on every corner (ehem, gas station farmer's market) it comes with color blocking in its DNA (alternating white and yellow kernals) and it looks good on just about everyone. It used to be that one had to wait anxiously for harvest season to ... continue reading... about 10 Great Corn Recipes plus Grilled Corn and Pasilla Pepper Salad
Greek Lemon Pasta Salad Plus 5 Great Sides
Ah, Friday. Thank you for finally showing up on my doorstep. It's been a week of surprises and quick moves that have called for backbone, agility and patience. Some of the news has been trying for my family and some has given me drive and inspiration. For myself, things are ... continue reading... about Greek Lemon Pasta Salad Plus 5 Great Sides
Yummy Yam Souffle
Smudge: "Mama, if you're in a cooking contest, like the Iron Chef on T.V., this is what you should make because you would win." Win? With yams? Let's just say that if I do ever get called into active Iron Chef duty, and the Chairman's chiseled jaw exclaims that the surprise ... continue reading... about Yummy Yam Souffle
Green Beans and Shiitake Mushrooms Plus 5 Simple Thanksgiving Sides
The stories are what I remember the most. Everyone gathered around my Grandma Mary Jane's dining table set with her best crystal and china—that I now have. The ambrosia salad that she'd make just for me. Helping my Aunt Jill make the relish tray and sneaking the squeeze cheese ... continue reading... about Green Beans and Shiitake Mushrooms Plus 5 Simple Thanksgiving Sides
Avocado and Tomato Salad Plus 5 Fresh and Simple Avocado Salads
After an amazingly late summer start thanks to one of the rainiest springs we've had in a long time, my harvest is finally coming on. So being the responsible gardener that I am, I'm now surfing the web for new ways to use the bounty I've spent hundreds of dollars watering, ... continue reading... about Avocado and Tomato Salad Plus 5 Fresh and Simple Avocado Salads
