Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes
Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes are a sped-up version of your favorite side dish. Mashed potatoes are always a crowd...
Quick and Easy Instant Pot Spaghetti Squash
Instant Pot Spaghetti Squash Spaghetti squash is a great alternative to pasta if you’re trying to cut carbs. Even...
Watermelon Salad
Do you ever find yourself just wanting a big bowl of in-season fresh fruit for lunch? I was in...
Instant Pot Brown Rice Recipe (And Many Other Rices Too!)
How do you make the perfect instant pot brown rice every time? There’s something simple and comforting about a...
Instant Pot Applesauce
Instant Pot Applesauce Of all the delicious things there are to eat in the world, I’m pretty sure...
Honey Crisp Kale Chopped Salad with Apple Cider Dressing
Do you ever do something that just makes you so pleased with yourself? That’s how I feel about creating...
11 Slow Cooker Side Dish Recipes
Have I ever mentioned that I love my slow cooker? Yeah, I thought so! Apparently, I’m not the only...
Easy Sun Dried Tomato, Artichoke Heart and Parmesan Hummus
My family loves hummus. Mostly because we love munchy things. Crackers and veggies and a healthy dip will always...
Easy Apple Salad
I could have sworn that I had a recipe for Apple Salad on my blog. In fact, at Thanksgiving...
Cranberry, Pecan, Mandarin Spinach Salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette
Adding pecans, dried cranberries, red onions and mandarin oranges to your spinach makes for a great salad. This is...
7 Layer Dip End Zone Recipe
Football season is in high gear and it won’t be long before the Big Game is here. I’m not...
Butternut Squash Casserole
Raise your hand if you need to take something to Thanksgiving Dinner at someone else’s house. I’ve got the...
Creamed Sweet Pea Casserole
You know how Thanksgiving is more about the sides than the turkey? Well, this is one dish you are...
Backyard BBQ Sides – Salads, Hot Sides and More
It’s the season for backyard barbecues! I think one of my favorite things about backyard barbecues is the way...
Perfect Pasta Salad {plus tips I’ve learned}
Pasta salad is a great dish to bring to a party, family get-together or for summer entertaining. It makes...
Au Gratin Potatoes in the Slow Cooker – Make an Oven Recipe Work in the Crockpot
One fantastic cooking trick to learn is how to change a recipe so that it can cook in...
Orange and Red Onion Salad – It’s simple, healthy and amazing!
Have you ever eaten a salad that was so good you just couldn’t stop eating it? That’s this...
What to Serve With Tacos and Enchiladas – Beyond Chips and Salsa
When I asked on Facebook about what meals you have trouble finding side dishes for, tacos and other Mexican...
What to Serve with Lasagna or Spahetti (that’s not salad)
Tossed salad is so easy with spaghetti or lasagna or any type of pasta with tomato sauce. It hits...
What to Serve with Fried Rice and Stir Fry
Fried Rice Sides We’ve talked about the basics of choosing side dishes. And last week we talked about side...
The Art of the Side Dish – What Goes With…
Side dishes are my dinner downfall. If I’m not intentional, I’ll forget about them when I’m prepping dinner, because I’m...
Lemon Pepper Parmesan Peas (plus a Pyrex giveaway and ideas for dressing up canned vegetables)
I’ve shared before that I often forget about side dishes until it’s nearly too late. I’m a big...
Roasted Brussels Sprouts
File this one under “The wonders never cease”. I did not think my family would ever like brussels...
The Best Ever Roasted Butternut Squash or Sweet Potatoes
Every time I make this easy side dish I think I’m going to take photos to share here....
Rosemary Goat Cheese Cornmeal Mini Muffins – party appetizer or dinner side dish
These little muffins are full of flavor. Rosemary gives them a lovely taste and goes well with the goat...
7 Layer Hot Italian Dip Recipe
Oh my gosh, you all! This dip is so easy and so amazing, you’ve got to try it!...
A Trio of Cream Cheese Appetizers – Maple Brown Sugar Pecan, Cranberry and Orange Marmalade
If you need a simple appetizer for a holiday party, look no further. In fact, I’ve got a lot...
Layered Cole Slaw – Perfect for Potlucks and Family Gatherings
This easy salad uses slaw mix, peas, bacon bits, water chestnuts and a simple homemade dressing. It’s perfect...
Wild Rice (or brown rice) Salad – redeeming leftover rice
Wild rice salad is a quick and easy way to use leftover wild rice or brown rice. I...
Easy Side Dishes – Beyond Steamed Veggies – Rounding out 15 Minute Meals
I have a tendency to focus on the main dish and forget the sides. Until we’re nearly ready to...
White Bean and Garlic Hummus
Want a great, easy snack for the kids (and you!)? I loved the idea of using white beans...
Balsamic Strawberries – An easy way to serve strawberries
I admit, when I first heard of putting balsamic vinegar on strawberries I thought it sounded crazy at...
Homemade Beer Cheese – a Kentucky Favorite
Have you ever heard of Beer Cheese? I’m guessing if you’re not from Kentucky, you probably haven’t. Beer...
Ranch Glazed Carrots
I’m so excited to introduce you to Jaime from Mom’s Test Kitchen! Jaime is the newest contributing writer for...
Easy Butternut Squash Skillet – My New Favorite Side Dish
I could eat and eat and eat this butternut squash skillet. It is so good! Our church had...
Apricot and Pecan Topped Brie Appetizer
I’ve been working with Libby’s recently and I was so excited to be asked to create a...
Easy Homemade Salsa
A note from Tiffany: This is a post from contributing writer, Rachael. It’s been a while since she’s had...
32 Simple Side Dish Ideas
There are all kinds of things you can serve as side dishes, but if you’re like me you prefer...
Easy Peachy Fruit Salad – Quick Side Dish Idea
I don’t know about you, but sometimes when I’m fixing dinner I forget about the side dishes. I’m so...
Simple Lettuce Wedge Salad – a salad for people who hate to make salad
I’ve seen lettuce wedge salads around recently on blogs and restaurant menus. Honestly, I wondered what the big...
Easy Mashed Sweet Potatoes
I love sweet potatoes. I usually just serve them baked as a side dish. If I’ve got more...
Slow Cooked Apples and Butternut Squash – Easy Side Dish
I made this a while back to go with Slow Cooked Breakfast Casserole. It was a great combination. Since...
Spaghetti with Kale and Lemon
I used to be strictly a red sauce and spaghetti noodle kinda girl. However, I would like to think...
‘Detox’ Salad full of Dark Green Leafy Veggies
Ever feel like your body just needs a ‘detox’? All the over-indulgence of the holidays (because they just seem...
Roasted Garlic Hummus
Are you looking for some healthier apps for game day? In planning our Super Bowl Menu (b/c for me,...
Thai Chili Chicken Egg Rolls
Is anyone else excited about the Super Bowl? Even though my beloved Giants didn’t even make the playoffs, I’m...
Pesto Bruschetta Spread
Lately, we’ve fallen into a lovely routine of family dinners after church. Even though all of our kids still...
Homemade Apple Butter – a favorite cheater recipe
Ever made homemade apple butter? It’s super easy. I didn’t link this recipe up to Ingredient Spotlight: Apples on...
Cheddar Chive Freezer Biscuits
Cheesy biscuits in the freezer, ready to bake for dinner? Now, that’s a great short cut for cheaters! These...
Orange Curry Couscous
Please welcome new contributing writer, Andrea Green. I love this quick side dish. Sides are one thing that I...
Garlic Cream Cheese Smashed Potatoes – 4 Ingredients!
I’ve made these potatoes twice now. They are so simple, but they taste like you’ve really put in a...
Fried Green Tomatoes (and many other Southern foods too!)
Our summer road trip from the kitchen series has taken us to New England and the Mid-Atlantic states. Now...
Almost Homemade Pickles
These pickles are super crunchy and a bit sweet. They’re fun to make too. My mom told me about...
Creamy Italian Herb Cucumbers & Tomatoes
Cucumbers and tomatoes is one of our favorite summer side dishes. It’s going to be even better when we’ve...
Summer Corn Salad
I have wanted to try this recipe for a long time, but somehow I just recently got around to...
Loaded Cheesy Potato Casserole
The credit for this recipe goes entirely to my sister. She knows how to kick things up a notch...
Spoon Bread with Swiss
Have you ever heard of spoon bread? In Berea, KY where we used to live the Boone Tavern is...
Choose-Your-Flavor Biscuit Bites
The other night I pulled a can of refrigerated biscuits out of the fridge and turned them into Italian...
Asian Broccoli Salad
This amazing salad showed up at a church dinner. Everyone at the table where I sat was talking about...
Kale Chips with Homemade Seasoned Salt
I’ve heard about kale chips from a number of people. They talked about how good they are. How easy...
How to Make Whole Wheat Bread by Hand
When I make homemade bread, I like to make quite a few loaves at once. I don’t have time...
Ranch Veggie Salad
My mom served this at Christmas time. It was so good, I made it again the next week. It’s...
Skillet Apple Crisp – Done in 20 Minutes!
We were driving home from church on Sunday and I was thinking about the egg and ham sandwiches I’d...
Honey Glazed Carrots in the Slow Cooker
These may be the best carrots I’ve ever eaten. They were perfectly cooked in the slow cooker and the...
Apple Cornbread Dressing
This is one of the tastiest dressings I’ve eaten. The little bit of sweet from the granny-smith apple pairs...
Roasted Beets
True confession – Until very recently, I had never so much as touched a beet, much less bought, cooked...
Cucumber and Tomato Salad
It’s cucumber season! I can’t actually tell that from looking at our garden. We don’t have any cukes yet,...
Slaw with Tomato, Red Onion and Jalepeno
This is a guest post from Micha at Cookin’ Mimi. Welcome, Micha! In my family, this is known...
Watermelon + Chili Powder = Wild Watermelon Love
Take some of these. And add some of this:
Goat Cheese Biscuits
I have been so excited to share this recipe with you. In early March, I visited a friend in...
Cornbread Muffins
Does anything round out a meal as well as cornbread? Maybe it’s just my Kentucky roots. (My mom’s family...
Low Carb Cranberry Sauce
This is a guest post from Dawn Farias. She is going to be sharing her favorite low carb dishes...
Roasted Sweet and White Potatoes
Roasted potatoes (or nearly any kind of veggie) is a favorite side dish around here. The other night, I...
Mashed Cauliflower – A Low Carb Side Dish
This is a guest post from Dawn Farias. She is going to be sharing her favorite low carb dishes...
Sweet Potatoes and Apples in the Slow Cooker
Using a slow cooker can really simplify your Thanksgiving dinner (or any other meal, for that matter). It allows...
Homemade Cornbread Dressing
Every family has their own version of the *right* dressing or stuffing or filling or whatever you may call...
Whole Wheat Biscuits
My mom calls these graham biscuits. They are a bit heartier than the white flour version and taste wonderful...
Applesauce and Red Hots – Blast from the Past
This used to make a regular appearance on the supper table when I was growing up. Raise your hand...
Sweet Potato Fries
I have wanted to make these for a long time. I’m not sure what I was waiting for. They...
Grilled Zucchini
Two things I have been loving lately – our new grill and homemade seasoned salt. I love the grill...
Roasted Broccoli and Red Pepper
Roasting broccoli in the oven gives a new dimension to the flavor. It brings out a nutty taste...
Potato Salad
There must be a million and one variations of potato salad. This is my mom’s version, which is a...
Hoe Cakes
Dick stole the hoe cake Ran through the meadow with it Hid it in a brush pile And swore...
Black Bean and Corn Salsa/Salad
I thought I was making a salad, but my family decided it was a salsa. It did taste good...
Carrots, Parsnips and Potatoes
Parsnips are a vegetable that I had never eaten until recently. A few months ago I used some in...
Cooking Fresh Green Beans
Fresh green beans make a simple and quick side dish. I know many of you cook with fresh veggies...
Tropical Salad
This salad was perfect with the Hawaiian Grilled Chicken. It’s full of pineapple, green onions, macadamia nuts, bacon…Yum! ...
Guacamole
I love guacamole. It’s dangerous for me to start eating it, because I have trouble stopping. So yummy. And...
Angel Biscuits
These soft biscuits are so good, with a bit of yeast flavor. You can eat them for breakfast or...
Onions with Herbs and Wine
I’ve had this recipe in my files for probably twenty years. I’ve always wanted to try it, but just...
Garlic Herb Rolls
This is a quick and easy way to dress up frozen roll dough. I use Rhodes brand, but there...
Oven Fried Potatoes
The night I served the BBQ Chipped Ham Sandwiches, I was wishing I’d picked up a bag of frozen...
Vanilla Fruit Salad
This is another super, simple side dish. Two ingredients and a couple of minutes are all you need.
Potato Skins
A while back, I made a pot of Baked Potato Soup. That recipe calls just for the fluffy middles...
Baked Potato Dip
Before I talk about this recipe, I must apologize for the poor photo. These short winter days are taking...
Yeast Cornbread
Next time, I’m going to double this recipe. This bread is good stuff. I made it on Thanksgiving Day...
Baked Potatoes with Onions
This is an easy way to dress up a baked potato. Only Jim and I like our potatoes with...
Mashed Potatoes
Mashed potatoes are a classic. They’re very easy to make. These are a basic, nothing fancy version. It’s really...
Cranberries and Oranges
I think I’ve mentioned before that I’m not that good with side dishes. For week night suppers, I put...
Warm Cinnamon Apple Sauce with Toasted Marshmallows
Don’t you just love a dish that tastes amazingly delicious, but is super simple? Toasted marshmallows don’t have to...
Southern-Asian Fusion Dip
By “Southern”, I mean south of the Mason-Dixon Line, not southern Asia. By “Fusion”, I mean let’s mix some...
Garlic Potatoes
I saw a recipe on Pioneer Woman the other day for Roasted Garlic and New Potatoes and I really...
7 Simple Ways to Spiff Up Your Salad
Eating salad is a great way to get in all those veggie servings that are recommended, but it’s easy...
Black Angus Potatoes Au Gratin
Many years ago, I was a young newly-wed with no idea how to cook. I wanted to learn though,...
Basil Tomato Dip
Didn’t summer just fly by? Can it really be Labor Day weekend already? If you’re looking for recipes to...
Tomato and Artichoke Heart Salad
A plate full of this and some bread along side would make an excellent dinner. I think this might...
Cheese Stuffed Zucchini Boats
Are you being blessed with lots of zucchini in your garden now? Try something different than zucchini bread. My...
Parmesan Zucchini and Summer Squash in the Microwave
Summer squash and zucchini are abundant in gardens right now. They can be turned into a quick side dish...
Cucumbers and Onions
It’s hot outside. Want something cool and crunchy with lunch or dinner? Here you go. I wish I had...
Salad Greens with Berries and Raspberry Vinaigrette Dressing
I created this salad for a potluck dinner last week. The combination of the berries, greens, cheese, and onion...
Quick Cole Slaw
I completely forgot to take a picture of this slaw after it was done. We ate it up too...
Microwave Corn on the Cob
I don’t know if you’ve noticed this about me or not, but I tend to be a simple person. ...
Olive Oil with Garlic and Italian Seasonings for Bread Dipping
I like to go to restaurants that serve warm bread and olive oil for dipping. It’s easy to do...
Blueberry Cream Jello Salad
This could easily be called dessert, but if you call it salad you won’t feel so guilty about having...
Depression Era Homemade Bread
Have you seen Clara of Depression Coooking with Clara on the news lately? She is 93 years old and...
Roasted Potatoes
A simple side dish to add to dinner. This is more of a method than a recipe. Clean and...
Winter Fruit Salad with Lemon Poppyseed Dressing
When Karen shared this recipe on her blog, Hopelessly Ordinary I copied it so I could try it. Then...
Cheddar Muffins
Does it bother anyone else that the muffin on top is on its side? What bothers me most is...
Spinach Salad with Spiced Nuts
I swiped this recipe from Julie at The Sporadic Cook. I made it at Thanksgiving but we ate it...
Biscuits
These are the real deal. This recipe has been passed down through my mom’s family in Kentucky. Preheat the...
Cornbread
Cornbread is a staple at our house. It comes together fast and goes with lots of meals. This version...
Fried Rice – Oven Style
This is not your regular Asian style fried rice, but it is good. The ingredients are simple: 1 cup...