Taco Pasta Salad – a creamy pasta salad with all your favorite taco toppings! Great to make ahead and have in the fridge for dinner or to take to any get together. Summer seems to be the season for entertaining. Maybe even more so than the holidays. It seems that every weekend we have a…
Side Dish Recipes
Salad Recipes for Summer
Salad Recipes – 13 Salad Recipes that are healthy, but still satisfy. You don’t have to feel like you are dieting to get your veggies and eat healthy! Summer is right around the corner. With that comes healthy eating. Everyone wants to eat a little better this time of year, so they can wear that…
Roasted Green Beans with Sesame and Garlic
Roasted Green Beans with Sesame and Garlic – green beans ready in less than 10 minutes! Seasoned with sesame, garlic and topped with sesame seeds. I swear side dishes are the hardest thing to come up with. My family can never agree on anything. I would have roasted asparagus almost every night if I could….
Asian Napa Cabbage Slaw
Asian Napa Cabbage Slaw – a crunchy cabbage slaw salad with lots of veggies and a creamy Asian style soy dressing. Great for lunches, get togethers or with your next barbecue. I can’t believe that we are at the end of April already. This year is just flying by. Only one month of school left!…
Pan Seared Mojo Potatoes
Pan Seared Mojo Potatoes – fingerling potatoes are seared and cooked to perfection in just minutes. Then mixed with a cilantro and herb mixture for a delicious side dish. Do you make the same side dishes over and over again. I know I do. I try to make something different like crispy cauliflower fritters. But…
Cheesy Garlic Bread
Cheesy Garlic Bread – cheesy, garlicky goodness that can accompany just about any meal on any night of the week! All ideas, recipes, & opinions are entirely my own however, this is a sponsored post on behalf of Michael Angelo’s™ We all need to take short cuts now and then, right? After a busy day…
Balela Salad (Mediterranean Chickpea Salad)
Balela Salad (Mediterranean Chickpea Salad) – a Mediterranean salad made with chickpeas, black beans, lots of fresh herbs and lemon juice. Super healthy and great as a dip or side dish. Today my 11 year old and I are flying back to Colorado. We have spent the last week and a half in Wisconsin visiting…
Summer Coleslaw
Summer Coleslaw – light and tangy no mayo coleslaw recipe that you can make all summer long! Summer is a busy time of year for everyone. I always go into summer thinking we don’t have that much planned, then the next thing I know summer is over, and almost every weekend was full! Not sure…
Caesar Pasta Salad
Caesar Pasta Salad – combine two favorites for one perfect summer side dish. Caesar salad and pasta salad come together in an easy dish everyone will love! I could live on cold pasta salad in the summer. I have quite a few different versions already here on the blog, and today I am totally…
Grilled Pineapple Salsa
Grilled Pineapple Salsa – super fresh, sweet, a little spicy, and perfect for summer. Great over chicken, pork, fish, or just to snack on with chips! Have you ever been to a Brazilian steak house? The places that come around to your table with meat on a stick. They usually have close to 20 different…
Mediterranean Quinoa Salad
Mediterranean Quinoa Salad – a light and fresh quinoa salad with tomatoes, green olives and tossed with a lemon vinaigrette. Great warm or cold all year round! We have talked side dishes before, and how I struggle with what to make. In the summer I am all about making pasta salad or some kind of…
Italian Cheese Pull Apart Bread
Italian Cheese Pull Apart Bread – make this easy side dish any night of the week. Open a can of biscuits, toss with butter, seasonings, cheese and bake! Pull apart garlic bread in just minutes any night of the week! I love carbs and could eat them all day every day. It can be Cheesy…
Easy Sauteed Mushrooms
Easy sauteed mushrooms go with just about any dinner you can think of, but they’re exceptionally good for Thanksgiving. Bonus that they’re dead easy! Side dishes are hard. I always struggle to come up with side dish ideas. That is probably why I make so many one pot skillet meals, everything is all there for…
Garlicky Crock Pot Mashed Potatoes
Garlicky Crock Pot Mashed Potatoes – make your favorite mashed potatoes in the slow cooker! I am sitting here typing this, and I think my house might blow away. It is crazy windy, like 40+ mile an hour winds. Stuff is just blowing by the windows in the back of my house, and it is…
Loaded Twice Baked Potato Casserole
Loaded Twice Baked Potato Casserole – Turn twice baked potatoes into an easy cheesy potato casserole that will be sure to please. Loaded with garlic, cheese, and bacon! Whether it is Thanksgiving dinner or a Tuesday night the potatoes can be the star of the show. They aren’t necessarily meant to, but they surely take…
Roasted Butternut Squash with Sage and Walnuts
Roasted Butternut Squash with Sage and Walnuts – roasted butternut squash that is tossed with butter, sage and toasted walnuts. Great side dish for fall. Well it is officially fall in Colorado. We were close to 80 last week, and this week we had a couple days that barely hit 50. And it was rainy…
Mushroom Rice Pilaf
Mushroom Rice Pilaf – an easy homemade rice pilaf with lots of fresh mushrooms! Ditch the box mix, because this easy side dish is ready in minutes! Great side dish recipe for chicken, fish, pork, or beef. Homemade vs Store Bought. That is the question with a lot of things. Do you have the time,…
Creamy Balsamic Vinaigrette
Creamy Balsamic Vinaigrette – Dress up your salads by turning classic balsamic vinaigrette in a healthy creamy balsamic dressing. Today is my 14th wedding anniversary!! We went out to dinner last night to celebrate. I have to say, I can not believe it has been 14 years. I have known my husband since I was…
Cafe Rio Dressing
Cafe Rio dressing – A homemade version of the Cafe Rio tomatillo dressing. So good, and great for topping just about anything! Have you ever been to Cafe Rio? It is one of my favorite places to meet a friend for lunch. They are a quick service Mexican restaurant and have the best salads, tacos…
Corn and Radish Salad
Corn and Radish Salad – An easy radish and corn salad topped with an avocado dressing. Great use of summer produce! What a busy weekend! It was our first weekend in forever that we didn’t have plans. But it turned into a busy and exhausting weekend! We wen up to Rocky Mountain National Park and…