Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes – buttery mashed potatoes with roasted garlic. An easy side dish that goes with any meal! I love mashed potatoes. I love mashed potatoes of all kinds. I even love those little cups of mashed potato flakes that you add water to and microwave. Are those even real potatoes? Who knows. …
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Spicy Honey Roasted Brussels Sprouts
Spicy Honey Roasted Brussels Sprouts – fresh brussels sprouts tossed in a sweet and spicy sauce and roasted until crispy and delicious. I am happy to report that my children ate brussels sprouts (and liked them!) for the first time ever. Roasted brussels sprouts are just the best. They get a little crispy on the…
Broccoli Salad
Broccoli Salad – my favorite summer side dish! Fresh broccoli, red onion, raisins, bacon, and sunflower seeds in a sweet and tangy dressing. Originally posted April 4, 2010. Updated June 12, 2020. Broccoli salad is my alltime favorite summer side dish. I love the classic version I’m sharing today and I love my lightened up…
Baked Potato Salad
Baked Potato Salad – everything you love about baked potatoes in a potato salad! Potatoes tossed in sour cream, bacon, cheddar cheese, and chives. Perfect for summer barbecues! This post originally published July 22, 2011. Updated on June 9, 2020 This is my alltime favorite potato salad recipe. It’s also currently the only potato salad…
Farro Salad with Cranberries, Feta, and Pecans
Farro Salad with Cranberries, Feta, and Pecans – a great holiday side dish recipe! Farro tossed with dried cranberries, feta cheese, and pecans in a light lemony dressing. Okay, I know it’s a little early to be thinking about Thanksgiving but I can’t help it. It was freezing last week in Texas and it got…
Pineapple Baked Beans
Pineapple Baked Beans – a favorite side dish for barbecues! Beans with bacon, crushed pineapple, and brown sugar are baked until the sauce is thick and delicious. Hi guys! Can you believe June is almost over? Summer is flying by and I’m not happy about it. I just want it to stay summer forever! Like,…
Mexican Cauliflower Rice
You guys. I’m obsessed with cauliflower again. I’ve had it everyday for, like, a month straight. For breakfast. I know. I swear it’s amazing though! I do some riced cauliflower with some riced sweet potato with diced turkey bacon and a fried egg. And then just a tiny bit of maple syrup and a giant drizzle of sriracha on…
Green Bean Casserole Phyllo Bites
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #GiveThanksBeFull #CollectiveBias Anyone doing a Friendsgiving this weekend? This is the first year I’m doing one! We live in a military community so normally I’d just invite all our friends over on Thanksgiving since everyone’s away from their family…
Bacon Cheddar Mashed Potatoes
Bacon Cheddar Mashed Potatoes – the perfect side dish for every meal! These potatoes are loaded with sour cream, cheddar cheese, bacon, and green onions! So if you follow me anywhere, you know I was in Austin at BlogHer Food all weekend. It’s a conference for food bloggers where we all talk about what…
Creamy Dill Cole Slaw
Heeeeey guys! On our road trip home a few months ago, we discovered that my 4 year old absolutely loves coleslaw. I don’t know that he had ever tried it before but we were at a seafood restaurant in Orange Beach and he pointed to a bowl of coleslaw on someone else’s plate and said,…
Cherry Bourbon BBQ Sauce
Cherry Bourbon BBQ Sauce – delicious sweet and spicy barbecue sauce made with fresh cherries and Bourbon! Perfect on grilled chicken! Happy Monday, y’all! How was the weekend? Fantastic, I hope. I had a very busy weekend. Finished New Girl. Took some naps. Caught a lot of Pokemon. Definitely not ready for Monday! But I…
Mexican Rice
We’ve officially been in Texas for 2 months. And that’s nuts. I simultaneously feel like we just got here and that we’ve been here for 10 years. Overall, I don’t hate Killeen like everyone said I would. Seriously, everyone I came in contact with told me how bad it would be. I still meet people that tell me…
Funeral Potatoes
Happy Veteran’s Day! I hope you’re enjoying a well-deserved day off. I wanted to talk to y’all about something today. I think I’m going to skip posting Thanksgiving recipes on the blog this year. I’ve done them in years past and cooking them and then eating them for days afterwards… it really takes away the magic…
Cheesy Quinoa Bites
I have been trying to get on a Monday – Thursday posting schedule for months now but it seems like every week something happens that just messes everything up. My blog went down Monday – my apologies if you were in dire need of a muffin recipe or something and couldn’t reach it – and…
Baked Sweet Potato Chips
Happy Hump Day! How’s about a giveaway to make this Wednesday a little less painful? I was recently sent a mandoline slicer as part of the OXO Blogger Outreach Program. I was pretty stoked about it because I’ve wanted a mandoline forever but those dang TV chefs had me completely scared of them. I mean seriously,…