Sweet and Spicy Baked Acorn Squash Slices are oven-roasted with pumpkin seeds (pepitas) and pomegranate seeds to make an impressive and festive Thanksgiving side dish for your holiday dinner. Covered in a sweet and spicy seasoning made with brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, chili powder, paprika, and a hint of cayenne, this oven-roasted acorn squash recipe…
Side Dishes
Find your favorite side dishes, such as green bean casserole, broccoli salad, and sweet potato casserole and many more.
Twice Baked Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
Warm, comforting, and topped with fluffy marshmallows, these Twice Baked Stuffed Sweet Potatoes are the perfect option for when you’re craving those fall flavors. Twice Baked Stuffed Sweet Potatoes are individual sweet potatoes, stuffed with a creamy, pumpkin pie spiced sweet potato filling, and topped with gooey marshmallows that are roasted until they are perfectly…
Spicy Cilantro Lime Summer Slaw
Spicy Cilantro Lime Summer Slaw is a cool, refreshing slaw with a slightly spicy kick that is perfect for a summer side dish at a barbecue or as a topping for fish tacos! Made with summer fresh corn, slaw mix, cilantro, lime, red peppers, and jalapeños, this slaw will be the picnic side dish or…
Watermelon Salsa
Light and refreshing Watermelon Salsa, with watermelon, strawberries, herbs, honey, and jalapeño, offers a sweet and spicy summer appetizer for Cinco De Mayo, or a picnic, party, or potluck! Pair Watermelon Salsa with crispy tortilla chips for a delicious appetizer, or use it as a topping for tacos, or your favorite salmon, fish, or chicken…
Asiago Cheese Focaccia Bread
Asiago Cheese Focaccia Bread is an Italian bread topped with fresh herbs that can be used in a focaccia sandwich, pizza, or served with marinara or with a soup or salad. Cheese Focaccia Bread is crisp yet light and is perfect for soaking up your favorite sauce or soup. I learned about Asiago Cheese Focaccia…
Instant Pot Cilantro Rice
Instant Pot Cilantro Lime Rice makes the classic Chipotle Copycat Cilantro Lime Rice Mexican side dish recipe easier to make in the Instant Pot Pressure Cooker! It will be ready quickly for your Mexican dinner! Traditionally, this copycat Chipotle Cilantro Lime Rice is made in a rice cooker or on top of the stove, but…
Instant Pot Green Bean Casserole
Save time and oven space by making the traditional Green Bean Casserole in the Instant Pot. It is easy, delicious, and frees up precious oven space when preparing for a holiday dinner. I can’t believe Thanksgiving is just over 2 weeks away! This year Thanksgiving is going to be quite different due to the pandemic….
Broccoli Salad
Broccoli Salad is a perfect cold summer salad when trying to beat the summer heat by chillin’ at a backyard barbecue, picnic, or potluck, or as a favorite holiday side dish at Thanksgiving dinner. Broccoli Salad with dried cranberries, or Craisins, bacon, cheddar, and gouda tastes amazing! Add in red onions and walnuts and cover…
Homemade Green Bean Casserole
This Homemade Green Bean Casserole, a traditional green bean casserole that is made from scratch with fresh green beans and a homemade mushroom sauce and topped with french fried onions, will be a hit with your family and friends on Thanksgiving. I have been told by some members of my family that it is not…
Zucchini Noodles With Pesto And Bacon
Fresh Zucchini Noodles with Pesto and Bacon make a light summer meal with the bold flavors of bacon and pasta. With only 4 ingredients, it cooks up in minutes! You’ll love the combination of pesto and bacon flavors! Zucchini noodles, or Zoodles as they are sometimes called, make a wonderful pasta substitute, and are also…
Instant Pot Baked Beans
These tender Instant Pot Baked Beans in a sweet, tangy, smoky sauce, make the best bbq baked beans, especially with bacon or ham, and is easy to make in the Instant Pot pressure cooker because no soaking is required! Baked Beans are always a favorite side dish at picnics, backyard BBQs, and potlucks. They go…
Instant Pot Marinara Sauce
Instant Pot Marinara Sauce tastes tastes rich and robust like it has been simmering all day but is ready in about an hour in the Instant Pot pressure cooker. I love the taste of homemade Marinara Sauce! It is rich, garlicky, and so flavorful with all the Italian herbs and seasonings. However, I often don’t…
Maque Choux (A Cajun Corn Side Dish)
Maque Choux is a creamy, spicy Cajun side dish made of corn, onions, red and green bell peppers, garlic, heavy cream, and Cajun spices. Maque Choux is the second recipe in our Mardi Gras Menu for those of you who, like me, can’t make it to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. However, this Cajun side…
Instant Pot Corn On The Cob
Instant Pot Corn On The Cob is the easiest way to cook sweet summer corn on the cob. You may never boil or microwave corn on the cob again. I love my Instant Pot as you can tell from all my Instant Pot Recipes! It is great for summer vegetables like corn, as you see…
Instant Pot Black Eyed Peas
These Instant Pot Black Eyed Peas make the BEST Black Eyed Peas you ever laid your taste buds on. Cooked with andouille sausage, bacon, onions, garlic, herbs, and spices, you’ll want these good luck black-eyed peas not only for New Years Day but any time during the year! What Are Black Eyed Peas? According to…
Instant Pot Red Beans And Rice
Want a taste of New Orleans, but don’t want to wait all day? Instant Pot Red Beans And Rice to the rescue. This recipe has all the zesty flavor of the andouille sausage, red beans, onions, peppers, celery, spices, and rice, but is ready in under an hour! If you soak the red beans overnight,…
Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes
Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes are pressure cooked perfectly for a moist, fluffy, delicious “baked” sweet potato every time. Pressure Cooking sweet potatoes is so fast and easy, you can serve them any time, not just for holidays. Delicious Sweet Potatoes As you can tell by all of our sweet potato recipes, we love sweet potatoes…
Fried Cabbage With Bacon
Fried Cabbage With Bacon, with tender cabbage and savory bacon, makes a quick and easy, super flavorful Southern side dish for any meal, especially for St. Patrick’s Day. Why You’ll Love This Fried Cabbage With Bacon Recipe While this is a perfect side dish for St Patrick’s Day, I serve Fried Cabbage With Bacon all year…
Easy Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes
Easy Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes are the best creamy, buttery and fluffy mashed potatoes and the easiest to make. If you need an easy method to make mashed potatoes for a crowd, this is your recipe! You will never make mashed potatoes any other way again after making them in an Instant Pot. You won’t…
Instant Pot Cranberry Sauce
Instant Pot Cranberry Sauce is a homemade cranberry sauce with orange juice, made with fresh cranberries, but pressure cooked in an Instant Pot instead of cooked on top of the stove. It is so delicious that you’ll never eat canned cranberry sauce again. Homemade Cranberry Sauce Over Canned Cranberry Sauce This Homemade Instant Pot Cranberry…
Instant Pot Scalloped Potatoes
Instant Pot Scalloped Potatoes are creamy, cheesy and taste absolutely heavenly. What makes them even better is that this is the quickest and easiest way to make them. My first thought after making these scalloped potatoes in the Instant Pot for the first time was that I was never making scalloped potatoes any other way…
Instant Pot Acorn Squash
Instant Pot Acorn Squash, with only 5 ingredients, cooks in less than 25 minutes and makes a comforting sweetened Fall side dish that is perfect for Thanksgiving. Acorn squash is a wonderfully delicious winter squash, and when prepared with butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon, even the kids will like it. If you can’t get kids…
Mexican Cabbage Slaw
Mexican Cabbage Slaw, also called Fish Taco Slaw, is a cool, tangy cabbage slaw with a Mexican-spiced apple cider vinaigrette that can be served as a side dish or on top of fish tacos, pulled pork sandwiches, or salads. How Is Mexican Cabbage Slaw Different Than Cole Slaw? This is definitely not your ordinary KFC coleslaw….
How To Make Chipotle Sauce (For Enchiladas)
This Chipotle Sauce recipe is unique in that it is a spicy, flavorful tomato-based sauce made with roasted tomatoes and chipotle chiles in adobo sauce and not a mayonnaise based sauce.
Chipotle Sauce may mean different things to different people. When I googled Chipotle Sauce, most of the top recipes were mayonnaise based sauces to be used on sandwiches. This is NOT one of those sauces.
This Chipotle Sauce is made with fresh Roma tomatoes that are roasted and then combined with chipotle chiles in adobo sauce, onions, and garlic.
This is a chipotle sauce created by cookbook authors, Cappy Lawton and Chris Waters Dunn, and found in Enchiladas Aztec to Tex Mex Cookbook. This chipotle sauce is made with Chipotles en adobo and roasted tomatoes.