This jicama slaw with carrots, cucumbers, and bell peppers is a refreshing, crunchy, and tangy salad you can serve as a side dish for meat, poultry, and seafood.
With a fresh dressing made with lime, olive oil, and rice vinegar, and spiced up with chile powder, this jicama slaw goes great with juicy meats such as barbecued ribs or slow cooked brisket.
This pasta dish with green beans and ricotta is a wonderful side dish or even a great main dish. The pasta and the beans are tossed with lots of Parmesan or Romano cheese and herbs, and then combined with generous dollops of ricotta cheese.
This pasta dish is pure comfort food. It's creamy, a little bit spicy, and loaded with freshly blanched French green beans cut into one inch pieces. You can even eat it from a bowl with a spoon while streaming your favorite show.
This carrot and cheddar gratin is easy to make and makes an impressive and amazing side dish for when company's coming for brunch or dinner.
This carrot gratin begins with carrots steeped in cream and lightly browned onions, topped with cheddar cheese and buttered and herbed bread crumbs, and then baked until golden-brown.
These potatoes boulangère are a wonderful lightened up potato dish. You can serve these potatoes for dinner as a side for roasts, steaks and chops, and poultry, or as a side dish for a celebratory brunch.
With Mother's Day, Father's Day, and graduation celebrations coming up, save this recipe and add these potatoes to your menu.
These green beans with shallots and tomatoes make a wonderful vegetable dish that you'll be tempted to eat with your fingers, kind of like French fries.
I know this is pretty much a side dish, but I first enjoyed it on its own for a light lunch accompanied by a tasty buttered Italian croissant, and it was plenty. Of course, my portion was a bowlful, and I'm not ashamed.
This summer squash succotash is a great recipe for using all of the wonderful produce that your garden produces in the summer.
While I don't have room for a garden, I am just lucky enough to have a cousin who is a horticultural genius, and grows an amazing variety of fresh produce in her almost cantilevered hillside garden.
This Asian Pear Slaw is a refreshing and light make-ahead salad that stays crunchy and sweet in the fridge until you are ready to serve it.
This Asian pear salad is wonderful as a side dish to meats, fried chicken, and barbecue fare. It's so refreshing.
This corn sauté with pancetta, potatoes, and peppers is a hearty side dish that goes perfectly with fried chicken, fish, or a juicy steak.
This sautéed corn is so savory and buttery. You can serve it either hot or at room temperature, making it great for potlucks, picnics, or barbecues. You will definitely not regret making extra.
This Black Bean Salad with Corn, Avocados, Tomatoes, and Red Onions is a hearty main course salad or side dish that is both refreshing and filling.
I originally served this salad with cornbread aebleskivers and the combination was great. If you don't want to attempt the aebleskivers (they require a special pan), you conld serve these with a hearty and cheesy cornbread and a green salad.
If you are looking for a sweet potato side dish for the holidays (or anytime), try this sweet potato and leek gratin. It's a wonderful savory dish with unexpected savory flavors.
This casserole, with a combination of sweet potatoes, Russet/Idaho potatoes, leeks, and pancetta is a fabulous side dish for any poultry, seafood, or meat main dish. Leftovers are great for lunch as a main dish with a salad.
This winter squash gratin is a wonderful side dish for your holiday dinner. It is also great as a main dish, served with a salad, for a light lunch or dinner.
With a base of honeynut squash mixed with rice, Parmesan cheese, and eggs, and a topping of herby and garlicky breadcrumbs, this winter squash gratin is super savory and totally flavorful. It's a tasty break from the usual sweeter winter squash side dishes.
These roasted tricolor carrots with a coconut orange glaze are a wonderful side dish for fall and the holidays. They might just emerge as one of your favorite vegetable recipes.
Roasting carrots really brings out the flavor and sweetness in this vegetable, and using multicolored heirloom carrots adds so much to the appeal of this dish. Plus, the variety of carrots adds a more complex depth of flavor that is beyond what you expect, from earthy, to savory, to sweet. You can even roast the carrots, let them cool, and combine them in a pasta salad with kale.
Combine fresh green beans, Parmesan, and pasta, along with tasty pancetta to create a creamy and cheesy dish.
Combining the hot pasta water with the Parmesan cheese creates a light and flavorful sauce that clings to the fusilli and beans and ties the whole dish together.
These roasted Yukon Gold potato wedges are super creamy on the inside and crusty on the outside.
These potatoes are the perfect side dish for a steak or fish (as in fish and chips). I also love them stuffed into a breakfast burrito or topped with cheddar cheese and bacon.
This Thai cabbage salad is light, refreshing, and loaded with all of your favorite Asian flavors.
This Thai cabbage salad is amazing. I could eat mass quantities. I've made this salad several times, and each time, I wonder why I don't make it more often.
These scalloped potatoes with caramelized onions are a lightened up version of one of my favorite comfort foods, potatoes gratin.
Instead of cream, this dish calls for broth and caramelized onions to add flavor. The result? An amazingly tasty and light potato dish that goes perfectly with roast beef, ham, or lamb chops.
BBQ glazed meatloaf with sweet potatoes and pearl onions - both dishes have a wonderful mustard-y barbecue sauce flavor, one with a sweet mustard barbecue sauce, and one with a Carolina red hot mustard sauce.
The sweet potatoes and onions have a subtle heat and the meatloaf is flavored of a variety of sauces, including a sweet mustard barbeque sauce.
This classic French bread stuffing is my new favorite holiday side dish. Serve it with roast turkey, roast chicken, or even ham or roast beef.
What I love about this stuffing is that it is fluffy, light, and not dense at all, unlike many stuffing recipes I have tried.
These Honey Garlic Sweet Potatoes are slightly sweet, garlicky, and crispy.
These honey garlic sweet potatoes are swoon-worthy. The combination of the garlic and honey, plus a bit of cayenne, will have everyone going back for second helpings.
These stuffing muffins are cute little individual servings of Thanksgiving-style bread stuffing. They are moist on the inside and extra crispy on the outside. If you favor the crispy edges of baked holiday stuffing, you will love these.
One of my favorite courses for Thanksgiving dinner is the stuffing. I've baked it, made it in the slow cooker, incorporated it into dinner rolls, and used leftovers for pancakes.
