Side Dish Recipes

Nothing says “I love you, not shut up and eat” more than some badass side dishes on the table. And I got you a ton of side dish recipes here to choose from: starches, vegetables, salads, you name it. All with a unique twist that will light up your meal.

Spring Pea Salad Recipe

Spring Pea Salad with Goat Cheese

Ah made yew a pea salad. We recently had the pleasure of visiting a dairy goat farm, Blue Heron Farm, you dewds, and I tell you it was pretty GD fantastic. Goats are so much like dogs! They come up and nuzzle you and want to be petted and they have soft fur and no [...]

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Kale with Garlic and Sesame

Kale with Garlic and Sesame

Kale is one over-hyped vegetable lately, I tell you whut. I don’t mean that to sound negative and complainy, but I know it does. Alls I mean is, kale is always on those lists of “Top 10 foods you must eat NOW!” and “Eat this and live FOREVER!” and then it goes on to be [...]

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Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes

Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes

Baked sweet potatoes are great and all, but twice baked?! Yes, ma’am! I was going to just do this recipe a la casserole but something weird has happened to me through making this show and that is that I have begun thinking of food not only as delicious sustenance, but . . . as . [...]

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Roasted Brussels Sprouts

Wasabi Roasted Brussels Sprouts

Doodley-Boos: lemme tell you, this is the BOSS roasted Brussel sprouts recipe! Also, I just learned that it’s BrusselSSS sprouts, not Brussel sprouts like, they’re from Brussels I guess? I just learned that last year. I learn new things every year. Yadda yadda, I am proud to say that however it’s spelled and what-have-you, I’ve always been [...]

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Fried Plantains (Tostones!)

Plantains to me are a marvelous fruit. Over two weeks, they transform upon your countertop from immature and hard and green to ripe and black and soft and squish. When green, they are nearly as hard as a turnip and covered in leathery skin attached to the flesh on a cellular level as if by [...]

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Quinoa Salad Recipe

Quinoa Salad

I love quinoa salad. It’s the perfect solution to my inherent laziness – the laziness I fight so hard against but sometimes, like all better foes, it wins and I find myself sprawled out across the room, legs on the couch, face on the floor, watching “Video Chan 5″ flashing continuously on the TV screen, [...]

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Watermelon Salad Recipe

Watermelon Salad

I started a post literally almost ONE YEAR ago that I never got around to finishing. Well, I finally did. Like, just a minute ago. Jeez. What a lazy ass. It’s all my fave-o-rave watermelon drink recipes. Interestingly, they all could easily involve alcohol. Not this one, though. This watermelon salad don’t even need no [...]

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Mexican Rice Recipe

Fluffy Mexican Restaurant Style Rice

Holy bejeezus, I’ve figured out the holy grail of RICE, dudes. I don’t know where you come from, but where I come from, Mexican (and Tex-Mex) restaurants have the BEST rice in the world. It’s almost like Minute Rice with as fluffy and crumbly and soft as it is, but the grains still remain separate [...]

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