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A simple but delicious side can take a meal from good to great. Try one of these to ramp up a meal or to take along to your next potluck.
Easy Oven Roasted Ratatouille with Herbes de Provence
Easy Oven Roasted Ratatouille with Herbes de Provence Why You Should Give This Recipe a Try I hate to admit this, but I am not a big fan of vegetables. I am also not a big fan of poor health, however, so I am always on the hunt for recipes to make vegetables more palatable. […]
Easy Creamy Mashed Potatoes with Boursin Cheese
Easy Creamy Mashed Potatoes with Boursin Cheese Why You Should Give This Recipe a Try Mashed potatoes are the quintessential comfort food, pairing well with tons of different dishes. And while they are delicious and easy to make, why not take it up a notch? These Easy Creamy Mashed Potatoes with Boursin Cheese are just […]
Quick & Easy Food Processor Irish Soda Bread Scones
I love homemade bread, but I don’t always have the time – or patience – to wait for dough to rise for a yeast bread. This easy and delicious Irish soda bread is a quick bread recipe transformed into moist scones rich with chunks of butter. It is the perfect treat not only for St. […]
Easy Focaccia Bread with Homemade Italian Seasoning
Easy Focaccia Bread with Homemade Italian Seasoning Almost everyone would agree that homemade bread is absolutely delicious, but the process can seem intimidating. Bread dough can be pretty temperamental, but there is nothing scary about this Easy Focaccia Bread with Homemade Italian Seasoning. With just a few simple ingredients, no kneading, and only one rise, […]
Thyme Roasted Sweet Potatoes
A Delicious Winter Side Dish: Thyme Roast Sweet Potatoes Like a lot of people, I’m not a perfect eater. I would describe myself as healthy-ish. One of the big advantages of cooking pretty much all of our food myself, though, is that we are able to avoid lots of highly processed foods. The area I’m […]
Ratatouille
Ratatouille: Not Just a Chef Ratatouille, in addition to being a talented rodent chef, is also a traditional French dish. We ate a ton of it this summer, to my husband’s great displeasure. Ratatouille was the vegetable rich staple of his childhood and not a favorite. Until this recipe. Ratatouille Cold? Maybe Hot is Better […]
Orange and Ginger Carrot Soup
Today is my 37th wedding anniversary and it has me reminiscing about a lot of things, not the least of which is the fact that my husband left his home and family in France to come to the US to marry me. I guess you could say that’s a pretty big deal, but I think […]
Puréed Butternut Squash
When are vegetables not like vegetables? When they taste DELICIOUS! Like this pureed butternut squash. Smooth, creamy, and flavored with maple syrup, cinnamon, butter, and heavy cream, you can eat this in place of mashed potatoes. We had this batch as a side to salmon, but I will absolutely make it again this week for […]
Oven Baked Bread Stuffing
I have had Thanksgiving dinner in my house every year of my entire life except one. In that one mistake, my family decided to go to an uncle’s house. I’m sure it was fine for the most part, but we did find ourselves wandering into the empty kitchen to look for leftovers a few hours […]