Tag: side dishes

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Spicy Kale Salad!

NEW MONICA! via GIPHY It's amazing the stuff I can learn on Twitter. Someone posted a thread asking about the best salad recipes and well, I love myself a good salad. I found this one that I normally would've ignored but it looked promising with some ingredients I've never tried before. YOLO, right? Introducing Spicy Kale Salad. What's different about this recipe is that there are no measurements. Seriously, I
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Slap Yo’ Mama Roasted Bell Peppers

I love bell peppers. I think they're a very versatile member of the fruit family (yes, it's a fruit, look it up!). They tend to go well with just about anything, though I haven't been that adventurous in trying to turn them into something sweet (I'm sure I could, tho). And while bell peppers can be eaten raw, sautéed, or even fried, I've grown very fond of eating them
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Grilled Brussels Sprouts Recipe

I love Brussels sprouts. I don't boil them, but I love to roast them in my oven. Over the week, we had a broken oven (fixed now!), and I had a lot of delicious Brussels sprouts to use. I decided to switch it up a bit and grill them instead: Ingredients: 1 pound Brussels sprouts, as uniform in size as possible 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 teaspoon dry mustard 1 teaspoon smoked
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Brown-Sugar Whiskey-Infused Carrots

Over the weekend, I made this and omgggggg, so good! As much as I love to eat veggies in their natural form, sometimes you want to spice things up. There's always more than one way to cook something and veggies aren't an exception. I had leftover carrots from when I made roasted veggies, so I figured why not try them another way. And the thing about this recipe is
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Homemade Au Gratin Potatoes

I used to buy au gratin potatoes via the box. I figured it was easy. Just do this and that and voila, I have my potatoes. Then I discovered once you start cooking more, you tend not to buy convenience foods as much as you used to, if at all. Making au gratin potatoes by scratch took a lot less time than I thought it would. For that reason