Category Archives: sides and appetizers
Creamy Pulled Pork Taquitos
If you have a small family like ours, or even if you don’t, you might have the same problem as we do. Leftovers. What do we do with all of our leftovers? As a family of two, it seems like no matter how much halving of a recipe I do, we still end up with […]
Loaded Mashed Potatoes
Loaded Mashed Potatoes 5-6 medium Potatoes 1 TBS Chives 1 TBS Salt 1 tsp Pepper 1/4 cup Butter, melted 1 cup Greek Yogurt 1/2 cup Milk 1 cups Mozzarella Cheese 2/3 cup Bacon Bits 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.2. Boil a large pot of water over medium heat.3. Meanwhile (peel if you want and) […]
Coleslaw
Can you believe that until last week I had never made coleslaw before? With the help of our handy dandy kitchen aid Slicer/Shredder Attachment we were able to shred the cabbage and carrots our self without even flinching. If you don’t have a KitchenAid(you should buy one now – it will help you in the […]
Sweet Bacon Wrapped Pineapple
Once upon a time, when I was still newly married, the hubs decided to go to Green River with his brother to go fishing. Now, being newly married I didn’t like the idea of being home alone. I’d gotten pretty used to having some one warm sleep next to me. But I also wasn’t very […]
Prosciutto Wrapped Asparagus
Tonight’s dinner was brought to you by what caught my eye at the grocery store. I went in to the store to purchase Chipotle Chilies in Adobe Sauce for a new recipe and there in all its glory was some beautiful, young asparagus. I had just seen this recipe Prosciutto_Wrapped Asparagus from my niece in-law’s facebook and […]
Parmesan Crusted Zucchini
After seeing this recipe on Our Best Bites and knowing I had a lot of zucchini and than forgetting where I originally saw the recipe and than googling zucchini recipes this recipe was created from a combination of recipes but very similar to the original Our Best Bites recipe. 2 small 1″ around 10 inch […]
Garlic Bread Sticks
These were seriously some of the best bread sticks I have ever had. The dough recipe we use makes the best pizza dough ever, so we figured we should try it for bread sticks and they turned out amazing as well. (I’m sure you could use your favorite pizza dough recipe if you don’t […]
Baked Southwestern Rolls
Do any of you use pinterest? Do you remember when I wrote here about the lists of recipes I want to some day try. Well nowadays I’m not as much adding recipes to my list as I am adding them to my pinboard. (If you want an invite let me know, I’ll hook you up) […]
Ground Beef Nachos
This was a very spontaneous meal one evening when we got “late night munchies”. Nate said he wanted nachos, and I wondered how we could make our own nacho cheese (I LOVE the nacho cheese you buy in jars). We found this recipe and tweaked it a little for our liking. We made some ground […]
Pasta Salad
Last Thursday we knew we were going to have some burgers for dinner and I wanted to make a side to go with. I thought of various side items that would be good with burgers. Of course you have your typical french fries, maybe coleslaw, potato salad, or corn on the cob, but finally I […]
Stuffed Squash
2 squash 1/2 cup marinara sauce (a recipe for mine can be found here) parmesan cheese Italian seasoned bread crumbs 1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.2. Spray baking dish with non-stick cooking spray.3. Cut the squash in half, lenthwise.4. Slightly scoop out the center of the squash.5. Spoon marinara equally into each squash half.6. Generously […]
Corn Bread
This was my first time making corn bread, and it turned out great. I will definitely stick with this recipe when I make corn bread again. We ate this with a delicious meal of homemade chili. Yum Yum. 2/3 cup butter or margarine, softened1 cup sugar3 eggs1 2/3 cups milk2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour1 cup […]
Funeral potatoes
This recipe was pretty easy, except for (because we’ve been watching the show Worst Cooks in America) I’ve realized how uneven my knife cuts are, and how difficult it actually is to get even sized dice pieces. Although the recipe I got this from suggested baking the potatoes and then dicing them, I thought it […]
Stuffed Peppers
Okay, so we weren’t thinking and we only made two stuffed peppers instead of the 6 the recipe calls for, which pretty much turned out okay, except for the extra rice and things we had, and the work that it took just for a side dish. Anyway, they turned out pretty great regardless except we […]
Roasted Potatoes
Hmmmm…. mmmm….good I bought a small bag of “gourmet speciality potatoes” at the grocery store with the plans to use them for roasted potatoes. There were yellow potatoes, red potatoes and purple potatoes in the bag and guess what the purple potatoes were also purple on the inside too – I was surprised at this. […]
Cream Cheese Wontons
Because we made egg rolls last night, we had lots of egg roll wrappers leftover. Our oil was still hot in the fryer, and we realized we could make even more delicious treats. It may work better with wonton wrappers (only because the size). cream cheesewonton wrappers oil 1. Cut egg roll wrappers in half […]
