Sides

Old-fashioned Bread Stuffing with Sausage, just like my dad’s ~ almost.  Easy, made from scratch bread stuffing with sausage, cooked outside the turkey in a casserole.  The best side on the holiday table!

Insalata Caprese, the quintessential Italian summer salad of fresh mozzarella and heirloom tomatoes, over mixed greens with a fresh basil vinaigrette.

Grilled Corn Salad with seasonal sweet corn and farm-fresh vegetables in a delicious honey-lime dressing. We’ve been grilling a lot of corn this summer for dinner.  Just tossing the ears of corn on the grill, not even shucking them first.  Meathead cooks them until they are charred and almost black all over.  The husks and …

Asian ramen noodle salad, crunchy chopped napa cabbage with toasted ramen noodles and nuts in a sweet soy dressing.  The best version of that slaw recipe with the ramen noodles you’ll ever have ~ fresh, flavorful and a hit at gatherings. Do you guys remember (or still make) Oriental cole slaw?  I don’t think that’s PC …

Simple apricot jam with seasonal fresh apricots and sugar, small batch recipe for a jar or two that’ll keep in refrigerator for several months, if it even lasts that long!

Honey’s creamy old-fashioned potato salad recipe with sour cream-mayonnaise dressing and dill, a different twist on the standard version. This easy to make traditional red potato salad is perfect for picnics, potlucks and family get togethers. I had a great Mother’s Day, I hope you did too.  After the exhausting move, I went home to Chicago for …

Holiday entertaining is on my mind these days.  Yours too, I bet.  This is a salad I used to make when I entertained around the holidays.  Usually, I made a pear and blue cheese salad, but once in awhile I made this salad.  Fresh sliced oranges, red onion and chèvre, with a smoky honey cumin vinaigrette.  And …

Pear and blue cheese salad, a seasonal and elegant salad for entertaining and the holidays. Pears, blue cheese, an easy honey mustard vinaigrette and toasted pine nuts, the perfect fall and winter salad.

An easy canning recipe for tasty homemade garlic dill pickles, a summertime favorite to enjoy year round.

This is the other recipe I wanted to share in honor of our good friend Carol.  I just shared her balsamic berry sauce and this is the black bean salad she made at the same dinner party.  I’m pretty sure we were there for some sort of summer grill dinner and this was one of …