Category: Side Dishes
Vanilla Mashed Sweet Potatoes
In the cupboard are the sweet potatoes. I need a side dish. So is it baked sweet potatoes? Nah, how about sweet potato souffle, you know with pineapple? Nope. Like a presidential candidate, I just floundered trying to come up with a side dish using these… more »
Garlic Lime Pork Chops With Red Quinoa Pilaf
Some of you may have read my rant several posts ago about the kind of pork we see in the mega marts. They showcase really lean cuts of pork with virtually no marbling sealed up in Cryovac packages, swimming in an "enhancing" solution of water, salt and s… more »
Rustic Risotto
As rustic as an elegant risotto can be, I makes it!
I mean, I love the creamy, cheesy, buttery, morsels that make up a decent risotto. How can one not? It has only been about four years now that I have been eating this creamy rice dish and I wonder ho… more »
Brussel Sprouts with Pistachios
Those who were made to eat the nasty, bitter orbs that are brussel sprouts when a child know to stay very far away from these nasty things. Now I'll eat cabbage, but these sprouts never, ever tasted like cabbage to me. They were more like a bitter plant… more »
Arugula with Blood Orange and Goat Cheese
So I'm reading my issue of Bon Appetit, and I keep noticing these blood red oranges. I think, "hmmm, I wonder what they taste like. Can't be blood can it." Of course not. I still wonder. So I am perusing the blogisphere reading one of my favorite blogs,… more »
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