'Side Dishes' Category
Spinach and Goat Cheese Pasta
If you like the taste of goat cheese, you’ll love this recipe. If you don’t, you could leave out the goat cheese, or be bold and give it another try . Goat cheese’s creamy texture and strong flavor, combined with spinach and penne, and a glass of red wine might just win you over! Ingredients [...]
Weekday Eggplant Parmesan
Eggplant Parmesan can take forever to make and most of us probably don’t have the time to spend hours on prep work and baking in the kitchen. That’s why I created a weekday version of this dish. It takes quite a few short cuts, but still tastes great. By using bottled marinara sauce and Italian [...]
Jalapeno-Olive & Gorgonzola Dip
With the holidays being not too far out, here’s an easy, no-fuss dip that looks festive and is quite tasty, too. I love the fact that you can serve it with just about anything, from chips to chicken fingers, crusty French bread, or crackers. Ingredients 3/4 cup of jalapeno stuffed green olives, sliced 3/4 cup [...]
Spicy Indian Lentil Soup – Daal
Daal is Indian comfort food. It’s hard to find an Indian family that doesn’t cook (and love!) daal. It’s also hard not to love digging into a bowl of steaming hot daal after a long day at work or on a cool fall evening. My version of daal is a bit different from the way [...]
Red Quinoa with Corn-Avocado Salad
If you’ve never tried quinoa, you might not know how to cook it at first. Luckily, this grain that is mostly found in South America, is as easy to handle as rice. If you can boil rice, you can cook quinoa. Although you can certainly eat it alone, I thought it tasted particularly good with [...]
Heirloom Tomatoes with Feta, Mushrooms and Spinach
I am totally nuts about this recipe! Maybe because there’s hardly any cutting required and to me, there’s nothing better than fresh, sautéed veggies. Try pairing this with grilled chicken or meat. Goes great with some French or garlic bread as well. Ingredients 1 pound of heirloom tomatoes, halved or quartered, depending on the size [...]
Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Wilted Spinach
If you’re looking for something new to do with sweet potatoes, I highly recommend trying this recipe because it’s simple, healthy, and makes an excellent side dish, anytime of the year. You can find the recipe here, but take a look at how I changed things up: I used about half the amount of onion [...]
Ten Minute Sauteed Spinach
What I love about this side dish is that it’s so easy to prepare that you can easily do it with very limited time (think: after you come home late from work and have no idea what veggies to add to your meal). I usually buy fresh, organic spinach and have not tried to make [...]
Vegetarian Mushroom & Onion Gravy
Cooking for vegetarians can be a challenge for some, so I experimented with some ingredients to see if I could pull off a vegetarian gravy to serve with mashed potatoes. Gravies tend to be meat or poultry based, so it’s often hard to replicate the flavor of them without adding any chicken or beef stock. [...]
Warm Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing
Ingredients 1/3 cup balsamic vinegar 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil Salt & pepper to taste Directions 1. Mix the vinegar and oil in a small sauce pan and put on low heat. 2. Add salt and pepper to taste and heat until warm. 3. Drizzle over salad. Not sure what type of salad to [...]
