Side Dishes

I learned how to use a rice cooker at a young age thanks to my mother and two aunts. In fact, I was a teenager before I realized cooking rice on the stove was a thing! If you’re wondering how to use a rice cooker, keep reading for simple rice cooker instructions, plus a fool-proof tip …

Leave it to Southerners to fry even the vegetables! This Southern bacon fried cabbage is a side dish that is simple to fix, inexpensive, and of course, tastes wonderful. How could it not with all that bacon? Just a spoonful of its tasty goodness helps the cabbage go down. 😉  I can remember both sets …

If you’re on a low carb diet or have adapted to the ketogenic way of eating, you may feel like you aren’t making enough healthy low carb vegetable recipes. Try one of these low carb vegetable recipes to mix things up and add some greens into your diet! Below are 20 low carb vegetable recipes …

I haven’t had friend mashed potatoes since I was a child.  Partly because it requires leftover mashed potatoes and we never seem to have any left.  However, for whatever reason as I was peeling potatoes to make mashed potatoes, I got a little carried away and peeled 10 POUNDS!.  Needless to say, I had a few …

My family enjoys asparagus but it is quite pricey around here so I don’t purchase it very often.  However, a friend of the family had an overabundance of green beans in their garden and said we were welcomed to come and pick all we wanted.  Since I love baked green beans with sea salt I …

I first enjoyed 14 Day Coleslaw at a 4th of July party where I had the opportunity to try it and fell in love.  I called up my friend and begged the recipe which she graciously gave and now I’m sharing it with you. This is a wonderful coleslaw recipe that stays fresh and crisp …

Learn how to make cornbread with this easy cornbread recipe. The addition of cilantro gives this cornbread a southwest twist! We are huge cilantro fans in the house. If you are too, feel free to add more than the 1/4 cup in this recipe. When you’re done, serve as a stand-alone or turn your cilantro …

Late summer means okra time in the South so I made my first batch of gluten-free, dairy-free fried okra. Below are the basics of creating this dish. Southern-style okra-frying is an art and difficult to quantify, thus no exact measurements are mentioned. Until the last year or so, I’ve had great freedom with cooking ingredients. …

I always thought home canning was time-consuming process that required special equipment, time, and patience in spades. This is case for many foods, but not for jalapenos. I had no idea it was this easy to pickle peppers until my dad enlightened me with this pickled pepper recipe. This is the way he cans jalapeno …