Caramelized Onion Dip is an easy appetizer for game days and holidays! This Caramelized Onion dip is the perfect easy recipe for holiday snack making! It's easy to whip up and only gets better the longer it sits in the fridge so you can enjoy it for days! Prepare this dip the night before a holiday party to have it ready to go and fully flavored. Serve with homemade potato … [Read more...]
Easy Homemade Stuffing
Start saving your dried out bread, the odd leftover hot dog bun, that one extra roll from dinner, and the ends of the bread that your kids refuse to eat. All of those odd pieces of bread that might normally go to waste can be turned into a delicious stuffing for your Thanksgiving dinner. Just freeze them for now and then the day before Thanksgiving pull them out and use them to … [Read more...]
Succotash with Butter and Dill
"Sufferin' succotash!" - Pop Quiz! Do you remember which Warner Bros character said this as their catchphrase? :) A little history about Succotash ~ Succotash is a food dish consisting primarily of corn and lima beans. Due to it's inexpensive nature, it was very popular in the Depression era, and still makes for a healthy and low cost side dish! It's also quite popular in … [Read more...]
Tomato and Feta Salad Recipe
This tomato and feta salad is so simple to make and so pretty to look at that it's become that special potluck dish we take to every party and family event. People rave over it and everyone wants the recipe, I can even get most of the kids to eat it - I still have one that resists anything with green in it, and one that just doesn't do cheese. It only takes a few minutes … [Read more...]
Arborio & Mushroom Fall Side Dish
Y'all. I went through my about 8 different titles before settling on the "side dish" addition. It started as salad...but that was before I tasted it warm. Then I decided that salad was the wrong and perhaps pilaf would be better. But then I tasted it after it had chilled. And I was back to salad. Then I thought this would make the perfect lunch for a chilly fall day. But it's … [Read more...]
Grilled Bacon Ranch Potatoes
We absolutely love to grill out, really any time of the year, but we do seem to cook on the grill much more often in the summer months and these potatoes are one of our favorite dishes to make. I'd been planning to make them all week long but the weather hasn't cooperated since we've been getting buckets of rain so I made them in the oven tonight instead and they were just as … [Read more...]
Sauteed Okra Recipe
Learn how to make a simple sauteed okra recipe to accompany your favorite summer meals. Summer comes and it's always time for fried okra. But it's also always good to have a lighter version of a garden favorite. That's when it's time to slice up and saute your okra. Four cups of sliced okra makes a wonderful side for my family of seven. Yum! Sauteed Okra … [Read more...]
Asian Spinach Salad with Soy-Sesame Vinaigrette
While I do my best to eat salads for lunch during the winter months, I find myself gravitating towards soups and breads when it's chilly outside. But come spring and summer, I'm enjoying a delicious salad for lunch most days of the week. And I especially love picking lettuce and spinach leaves from my garden. I enjoy making my own vinaigrette for my salads as well, and … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker Baked Beans
I love baked beans. They are an essential part of our summer barbecues and picnics. But who wants to turn on their oven for several hours on a hot summer day? Not me! So I cheat and make my baked beans in a slow cooker. This slow cooker baked beans recipe is really easy to make. It is made of common pantry staples, but if you do not have molasses on hand, replace it with … [Read more...]
Strawberry Spinach Quinoa Salad
Hello lovely. Yes, this is a lovely, lovely salad. It's lovely because it combines a few of my favorite flavors (strawberry, spinach and almonds). It's lovely because it tasted light, but the quinoa made the me feel full. And it's even lovelier because it is made of "ingredients I had on hand." Otherwise known as "popular ingredients that most people have"...because I don't … [Read more...]