Avocado and Red Pepper Israeli Couscous Recipe
Posted on February 22, 2010 - Filed Under Recipes, side dishes, vegetables, vegetarian | 3 Comments
Dear Readers, My weekly Cooking with Kids recipe will appear tomorrow. Due to technical difficulties, we had to delay it a day. Thanks for your understanding! -S
Sometimes, the best dishes come out of error. While busy testing recipes this weekend, I had a thought to try serving the Key Lime shrimp that I was playing [...]
Read More..>>Easy Roasted Sunchokes Recipe
Posted on February 17, 2010 - Filed Under Recipes, side dishes, vegetables, vegetarian | 6 Comments
A few years ago, I read a blog post where the author declared their undying love for sunchokes, aka Jerusalem artichokes. I’d never seen or heard of this … thing (not knowing what it was, I couldn’t decide if it was a vegetable or what). Fast forward to a few weeks ago, I discovered sunchokes [...]
Read More..>>Garlic, Basil and Parmesan Quinoa Recipe
Posted on January 20, 2010 - Filed Under Recipes, quick and easy, raves, side dishes | 11 Comments
Meet quinoa. It’s a good-for-you “grain” (I’ll tell you why that is in quotes shortly) that looks and behaves similarly to couscous … though the two are not related. It can be used in place of rice or couscous for whatever you might be making.
But what is it? Well, it’s natural — not processed or [...]
Roasted Sweet Potatoes Recipe
Posted on December 8, 2009 - Filed Under Easy Recipes, Healthy Cooking, Recipes, quick and easy, side dishes, vegetables, vegetarian | 4 Comments
It’s really hard to believe that I went for so many years without ever tasting a single sweet potato. My mother didn’t like them, and by extension neither did I. As far as I can remember, I think I had my first one at about age 19 in the fry form (cause seriously, anything in [...]
Read More..>>Sauteed Brussels Sprouts with Lemon Vinaigrette
Posted on February 16, 2009 - Filed Under side dishes, vegetables, vegetarian | 7 Comments
This year, I have made a commitment to living healthier. There are simply too many negative effects and risks associated with being overweight to do anything else. And being that I am surrounded with folks who have made similar commitments with double digit results, it’s hard not to follow suit … I just wish more [...]
Read More..>>Tasty Two Cheese Fingerlings
Posted on March 28, 2008 - Filed Under potatoes, side dishes | 1 Comment
We love us some potatoes in this house. Whether its some quickly whipped up mashed potatoes, which can be a quick and versatile starch to accompany meals, or baked fries and roasted potatoes, it’s tasty stuff.
In terms of types of potatoes, we are pretty open.
A sampler of types of potatoes:
Red potatoes are great for [...]
Read More..>>Roasted Parmesan Leeks
Posted on February 18, 2008 - Filed Under side dishes, vegetables | 2 Comments
In the past, when I have bought leeks, they have sat in my refrigerator until they turned brown, moldy and emitted a disgusting juice that my husband would clean up. That’s the not-so-pretty truth. I’ve wanted to try them, have bought them and then haven’t done a thing with them. Sad, but true.
Until now, that [...]
Serving Up Memories: Sweet and Sour Red Cabbage
Posted on February 8, 2008 - Filed Under side dishes, vegetables, vegetarian | Leave a Comment
I can’t help but smile when I think of my grandfather.
My grandfather was a tall man who loved airplanes and motorcycles (though an accident in his youth left his leg permanently injured). He owned a small prop plane for years and flew whenever he could. And he was dedicated to work and family.
He grew up [...]
Cheddar Bacon Twice Baked Potatoes
Posted on February 7, 2008 - Filed Under potatoes, side dishes | 3 Comments
I was never a fan of baked potatoes. But last year, I suddenly developed a taste for them. Perhaps it was just that until last year I had never had a baked potato with toppings or fillings. Growing up, it was always bake, squeeze, pop on plate. Sometimes there would be a pat of butter [...]
Read More..>>Creamy Ricotta Spinach
Posted on February 3, 2008 - Filed Under side dishes, vegetables | 2 Comments
Okay, okay. I said I would post this yesterday and I didn’t. Instead, my site went down for a bit so that it could be moved to a new server and my (I’m so excited about this) new look could finally debut. I can’t tell you how much I love the new look. And I [...]
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