You’ll love these soft Italian garlic breadsticks that taste like breadsticks at Olive Garden, one of my favorite restaurants. These copycat Olive Garden Breadsticks make soft and fluffy golden brown garlic bread sticks. If you loved my Asiago Cheese Focaccia Bread, then you’ll love these soft, garlic breadsticks. These easy homemade breadsticks go perfectly with…
Side Dishes
Find your favorite side dishes, such as green bean casserole, broccoli salad, and sweet potato casserole and many more.
Best Fajita Toppings
Fajitas – What’s not to love? Tender beef (or chicken or shrimp) served sizzling hot with sautéed onions, peppers, and lime juice, all tucked in nicely in soft, fluffy, warm tortillas! Are you a fajita lover like we are? How can anyone not love them? They are quick and easy to cook, super flavorful, wholesome,…
What To Serve With Beef Tips!
Ahhhhhh!! Pure comfort food! That’s what Beef Tips are, and they need complimentary melt-in-your-mouth side dishes to round out your comfort food dinner. Whether you call them beef tips or steak tips, you’ll love these 17 side dish recipes, including rice recipes, vegetables, salads, potatoes, and pasta recipes! If you love my Beef Tips and…
Frito Crack Corn Salad
If you combine crack corn dip and Paula Deen’s Frito Corn Salad, you get Frito Crack Corn Salad! With sweet corn, cheddar cheese, bacon, jalapeños, and chili cheese Fritos in a Ranch-flavored creamy dressing, you get an addictive creamy and crunchy Frito Corn Salad. If you loved my Mexican Street Corn Salad, and Succotash, then you’ll love…
Skillet Fried Apples
If you love the fried apples at Cracker Barrel then you’ll love this Fried Apples Recipe! Cracker Barrel is a favorite restaurant for folks and fried apples with cinnamon are one of my favorite menu items as they are a classic southern side dish. These Cracker Barrel Fried Apples are about to become your new…
Authentic Salsa Verde Recipe
This authentic Salsa Verde recipe is the best and easiest salsa verde recipe you’ll ever make. It is so fresh and flavorful that you’ll want to take it to your favorite Mexican restaurant because it will likely taste better than theirs! Whichever type of salsa you prefer, mild or spicier salsa, you’ll find this easy…
Sausage and Bacon Gravy
Bacon and Sausage Gravy takes traditional sausage gravy to a whole new level! The flavorful rendered fat from the sausage, bacon, and the heavy cream provides a rich and hearty taste – perfect for serving over flaky biscuits, potatoes, or even chicken fried steak. Unlike my Chili Gravy with the Tex-Mex Enchiladas recipe, this gravy…
Angel Biscuits
These Angel Biscuits, sometimes called Bride’s Biscuits, are absolutely heavenly! Soft and fluffy, light and flaky – they’re the perfect mixture of classic buttermilk biscuits and dinner rolls or yeast rolls. Serve these melt-in-your-mouth fluffy biscuits as a side dish for breakfast or combine them with Sausage And Bacon Gravy for Biscuits and Gravy, or…
Side Dishes For July 4th
If you are looking for amazing finger lickin good side dishes for July 4th, then I’ve got amazing side dish salad recipes that you will love. These tried and true Side Dish Recipes include make ahead recipes, such as vegetable salads, pasta salads, potato salads, and more, everything you need for a yummy outdoor barbecue…
Marinated Green Bean Salad
This Marinated Green Bean Salad bursts with fresh flavors and bright summer colors. It’s the perfect chilled side salad, marinated for 4 hours to create a tangy and savory bowl of vegetables with grated parmesan. Enjoy this make-ahead cold green bean salad at parties, potlucks, barbecues, or a July 4th Cookout whenever you need a…
Instant Pot Black Beans
Instant Pot Mexican Black Beans are protein-rich, vegan, and gluten-free! These no-soak beans are also a great source of fiber, sure to be a welcome addition to tacos, burritos or burrito bowls, nachos, or any Mexican meal! Super flavorful, soft, and budget-friendly – what else could you want?! Serve these Instant Pot Black Beans with…
Succotash
This fresh and vibrant Succotash is a vegetable party in one pan! The classic American side dish, made with corn and plump lima beans, semi-sweet red onion, juicy bell pepper and cherry tomatoes, is an ideal vegetable dish to accompany an array of mains for Thanksgiving, other special occasions, or midweek family meals. Enjoy this…
Chopped Vegetable Salad
This Vegetable Chopped Salad is a light and refreshing salad recipe, loaded with juicy fresh vegetables and salad ingredients that can also be easily varied to suit your family’s preferences. Enjoy this incredibly easy salad as a starter, side dish, or light main meal with your favorite salad dressing. Whether you serve it as a…
Easy Huevos Rancheros
Easy Huevos Rancheros. Say whaaaat? Here’s a translation. Huevos means eggs. Rancheros means Ranchers. So Huevos Rancheros translates to “Rancher’s Eggs.” What these traditional Huevos Rancheros provide is a delicious, hearty classic Mexican breakfast that you and your family love and will fill you up! I have lived in Texas all my life. So I…
Tri Color Rotini Pasta Salad
While I’ve made many kinds of pasta salads for the family and for entertaining over the years, nothing quite beats this Classic Tri Color Rotini Pasta Salad that’s made in just 20 minutes from scratch. The tri-color rotini pasta salad does a great job of locking in all the flavors from the homemade Italian dressing…
Red Enchilada Sauce Recipe
This is a quick and easy version of a delicious homemade Red Enchilada Sauce that will remind you of your favorite Mexican restaurants. It is loaded with flavor, much better than any canned stuff, you know the canned enchilada sauce, but it is a shortcut version of an authentic enchilada sauce. Instead of starting with…
Elote – Mexican Grilled Street Corn
When I think of Grilled Mexican Corn, or Elote, there’s no better way to describe it than a little taste of summer. To me, adding grilled corn to my cookouts is an official celebration of Cinco de Mayo, warmer weather, summer, pool parties, barbecues, and awesome grilled food! If you thought regular grilled corn on…
Best Side Dishes To Serve With Ham
Whether you are serving a Ham main dish, like our Peach Glazed Ham, or Crockpot Brown Sugar Pineapple Glazed Ham, for an Easter holiday or a weeknight family dinner, you’ll love these 21 delicious side dish recipes that go perfectly with ham. Recipe suggestions include our favorite recipes for salads, breads, vegetables, potato dishes, and…
Corn And Black Bean Salad
Mexican Black Beans and Corn Salad provide a proud display of vibrant Mexican-inspired salad ingredients including corn, black beans, avocado, red opinion, and peppers…all blended together in a fusion of aromatics, spices, fresh lemon juice, honey, and olive oil. This Mexican salad is ideal as a side salad while also versatile enough to be used…
Hot Cross Buns
If you’re looking for fluffy, spiced sweet rolls to start the Easter holidays off right then there’s no better recipe to bookmark than these Hot Cross Buns! These holiday buns are loaded with spice, juicy sweet raisins, and decorated with a cross, so they are perfect for celebrating Easter. These hot cross buns come out…
Pineapple Casserole
Pineapple Casserole is a sweet and salty Southern dish with gooey and crunchy filling and a cobbler-like topping. It’s perfect for Easter or any special holiday is inexpensive and calls for minimal ingredients that you likely already have in the pantry! Serve this pineapple casserole as an Easter side dish with Peach Glazed Ham or…
Ambrosia Salad With Cool Whip
This Ambrosia salad is no ordinary fruit salad. It combines your love for pineapple, sweet mandarin oranges, juicy grapes and luxurious maraschino cherries with sweetened shredded coconut, creamy Cool whip, sour cream, and crunchy pecans! While this dessert salad speaks for itself the name also gives away just how delicious it is. After all, if…
Instant Pot Refried Beans
These refried beans made in the Instant Pot are so easy to make. They’re full of the best flavors you will love such as fresh garlic, onion, cumin, tender pinto beans, and more! This pressure cooker refried beans recipe is great for meal prep, freezer-friendly, and way better than the rest. Creamy Instant Pot refried…
Mexican Cauliflower Rice
Mexican Cauliflower Rice makes a delicious alternative to Mexican rice. It has all the flavor of Mexican Rice but because it’s made with cauliflower it is a lighter side dish for your Mexican dinner. Whether you are serving this as a side for Taco Tuesday, or your Cinco De Mayo taco bar, or with Chicken…