Category: Sides

Recipes for side dishes.

Garlic Mushroom Quinoa

Mike and I first discovered quinoa at the farmer’s market.  There was a vendor there who was selling packets of uncooked quinoa, with seasoning.  All you had to do was add water,...

Garlic Ranch Mashed Potatoes

My coworker has a son who is a very picky eater.  He also is involved in a lot of sports.  As a result, he is very skinny.  She is trying to find...

Baked Avocado Fries

Avocados.  Need I say more?  Just scroll down to the recipe and start making it already!  What more do you need to know about this recipe? In case you need more convincing,...

Scalloped Potatoes

One of the classic Mike recipe’s and one of his favorite all-time dishes is scalloped potatoes.  Mike makes this dish whenever he has a potluck and for pretty much every holiday meal....

Sweet Corn Spoon Bread

Mike loves cornbread.  I’ve never really understood it.  It’s not that I don’t like cornbread in general.  I’m just not a big fan of it.  I think one of the main issues...

Taco Salad

I was able to “build my own tacos” recently, however there were people in line, so I didn’t have time to open the shell to put the meat and other items in...

Honey Whole Wheat Biscuits

Mike’s Perspective: When I got home from Church last night, Kim surprised me by dropping a, “are you ready to make the biscuits from scratch?” Bear in mind, that we were supposed...

Challah Bread

Bruce came home with almost five dozen eggs.  I guess he went to a dinner party and for some reason they gave him a large number of eggs.  Whatever the reason, we...