Side Dish Recipes
Sweet Pickled Peaches (or Nectarines)
This is my great-grandmother Shaw’s recipe for sweet pickled peaches. I remember my mom making these from the tiny white peaches that grew around our house when I was growing up, even if she doesn’t remember that. So when my grandma (other side of the family) showed up with a 10-pound bag of not-quite-ripe nectarines…
Read MoreCucumber Salad
Cucumber Salad Recipe Video – scroll down for recipe Subscribe to my YouTube channel to get notified of new videos. Cucumber salad a great thing to make the day before a big party because it just gets better in the fridge for the first couple days. After that, it’s still good, but definitely best if…
Read MoreFried Green Tomatoes
Fried Green Tomatoes Recipe Video – scroll down for recipe We always had a little garden when I was growing up. Not like a farm, but just a little plot behind the house, down the hill a bit, under a giant cottonwood tree with a swing tied to its branches. I didn’t really have much…
Read More“Better than Ranch-Style” Beans
People been asking me to do a baked beans recipe for their summer barbecues and picnics and whatnot, but I already have a recipe for baked beans in my Learn to Cook book. So I one-upped em and came up with this SUPER DELICIOUS ranch-style beans recipe. Man alive, these are good! Way, way, waaayyy…
Read MoreVinaigrette Coleslaw Recipe
Vinaigrette Coleslaw video – scroll down for recipe card Subscribe to my YouTube channel to get notified of new videos. This is one of the simplest coleslaw recipes EVER. In fact, this version is even slightly more complicated than I usually make. Most of the time, I just do salt, lime juice, and cilantro and…
Read MoreWhole Roasted Cauliflower
Whole Roasted Cauliflower Recipe Video – scroll down for recipe card This here’s a recipe from my new cookbook! As was our plan for world domination, this new cookbook uses the skills and techniques taught in the Learn to Cook book and goes deeper into one particular food-subject. In this case, it’s the paleo diet.…
Read MorePerfect Potato Salad
This particular potato salad is full of awesome memories for me. Making it in the bright white kitchen of Laurel’s old house on Cherrywood, Emily tasting and tasting and tasting as it came together. See, Laurel didn’t like raw white onion, so Emily used green onions. Emily didn’t like big chunks of egg, so Laurel…
Read MoreCaribbean Chicken with Mango Salsa
Pre-Script: This mango salsa is also great with CHIPS!! (But what isn’t…) Okey doke, so I’ve told you before that I don’t really know anything about the Caribbean except what I seen on that movie about them pirates. And also what I can remember from my scuba diving trip I took to Cozumel when I…
Read MoreWilted Spinach Broccoli Salad with Bacon – Old Lady Recipe #5
Once upon a time there was an annoyingly healthy spinach salad that sort of sat around all day looking pert and perky and full of nutrients, basically making an ass of itself, like it was some big deal or something. Whatever. Then one day an old granny came along and dumped a bunch of magic…
Read More