Side Dish Recipes
Spring Pea Salad with Goat Cheese
Pea Salad with Goat Cheese Recipe Video (scroll down for printable recipe) 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…
Read MoreKale 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…
Read MoreTwice 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 .…
Read MoreWasabi 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…
Read MoreFried 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…
Read MoreWild Rice Salad
A dear, dear friend of mine recently came back to Texas for a visit. She’s been living in New Zealand for a few years now with her handsome Kiwi man and two drop-dead adorable boy-children. The reason for her visit was sad, but we were all so happy to see them. She asked her lady-friends…
Read MoreQuinoa Salad
Quinoa Salad Video (scroll down for recipe) 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…
Read MoreWatermelon Salad
Not that ripe summer watermelon needs to be made into salad, but hey, maybe you’re bored with plain ol’ melon and want to try this 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…
Read MoreFluffy Mexican Rice — Restaurant-Style!
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. I can only call it “Fluffy Mexican Rice”. It’s almost like Minute Rice with as fluffy and crumbly and soft as…
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