Welcome to our Sides category, where the perfect complements to your main courses await! From fluffy rice pilafs and savory roasted vegetables to creamy mashed potatoes and vibrant salads, our collection offers an array of dishes designed to round out any meal. Whether you’re planning a simple family dinner or a festive holiday feast, you’ll find side dishes here that bring color, texture, and flavor to your table. Each recipe is crafted to be both delicious and easy to prepare, ensuring that you can add a special touch to your meals without any fuss.
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While I am not a huge risk taker, I do love it when something pushes me outside of my comfort zone just a little bit. As my family and close friends will attest to, I love adrenaline rushes, as long as they don’t involve flying over water (I am cool with heights, but am terrified…
Making pickled red onions at home is one of my favorite ways to add a burst of flavor to just about any dish. With their tangy, sweet, and slightly crunchy character, they can transform simple meals into something special. Pickled red onions are incredibly versatile and make the perfect topping for tacos, salads, deli sandwiches,…
If you’re looking to add a refreshing twist to your summer meals, you’ve got to try a cucumber sumac salad. This dish combines crisp cucumbers with the tangy taste of sumac, creating a vibrant, mouth-watering salad. Sumac is a spice commonly used in Middle Eastern cuisine, known for its citrusy flavor that perfectly balances with…
Is anyone else overtired, stressed, or feeling sluggish? The other day as I was realizing that I was feeling really low energy and unmotivated. In theory, I was doing everything right—exercising, getting plenty of fruits and vegetables, sleeping (ok, maybe not sleeping enough, but getting some sleep)—but I was still dragging and then it came…
I don’t know about everyone else, but this is the time of year when I start to fantasize about all the seasonal produce I’ll be eating… in JUNE. This is the time of year when I start to feel uninspired when it comes to cooking and sick of all my recipes. This is the February…
Over the past year or so my sons have shown little to no interest in what I choose at the farm share each week. This has been a source of disappointment for me for two reasons: 1) I love walking through the selections with them and talking about their favorites as well as about new…
This morning I heard a story on NPR about this guy who realized that he was living a very comfortable, happy life but that one day he realized that his whole life was being lived in a bubble, so he decided that he was going to break out of the bubble by attending randomly selected,…
This morning, as I was driving home after dropping my kids off at school, I heard an interview with Samin Nosrat who just wrote a book called Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat*, which I am SUPER excited to read (just got it for my birthday, woo hoo!). In the interview she was recounting a memory from…
“I received free samples of Sabra Hummus mentioned in this post. By posting this recipe I am entering a recipe contest sponsored by Sabra and am eligible to win prizes associated with the contest. I was not compensated for my time.” Sometimes the best things are simple. Super simple. That was a lesson I was…
This month is kind of a wacky month for my recipe roundup because three of these recipes come from one cookbook: Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem: A Cookbook*. I have a complicated relationship with this cookbook. I love it because everything that I make from it comes out so well, the pictures are beyond beautiful, and the recipes…