Category: Side Dishes
Ratatouille’s Ratatouille
| November 9, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Main Course, Make-ahead, Side Dishes, Vegetarian |
It’s that time of year again – the late summer zucchini season! (Or, it was when I wrote this. A long honeymoon, long work trip, some of life’s punches to the face, and the general malaise that accompanies the seasonal transition into winter have seriously depleted my blogging energy. But, I shall return triumphantly! Until…
Tuna & Green Bean Salad
| September 6, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Recipe, Salads, Side Dishes |
Here’s a quick salad to toss together in those late summer days when the produce is bountiful, the vegetables crisp, the sun sinking lower into the sky, and the thought of turning on the stove is less of an abomination. Because you need the stove, if only ever so breifly. But, trust me, it’s worth it.
Spinach-Stuffed Portobellas
| August 5, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Main Course, Recipe, Side Dishes, Vegetarian |
I love it when a plan comes together. At the grocery store, I had a few strange urges. One was to buy a new bottle of Cholula hot sauce, half of which I’ve already consumed one week later despite never really being a spicy food fanatic. Another was an irresistable need to make stuffed portobello…
Classic Broccoli Salad
| August 3, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Salads, Side Dishes |
This salad is an icon, ladies and gentlemen. You don’t have to worship the picnic or backyard barbecue to recognize it. I think most Americans have eaten plenty of this classic sweet veggie salad in their days. Any deli or supermarket probably has a soggy vat of this stuff sitting in the display case, beckoning…
Pesto Chicken Over Chunky Tomato Sauce
| June 9, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Main Course, MEAT, Recipe, Side Dishes |
Sometimes, I don’t have the energy to write. Like when I’m editing rambling opinion essays and need a brain break. Days like those….which may or may not be today….I prefer to think of greener pastures. Like this low-carb, summer-flavored bit of heaven I baked up the other day. Gifted with a bag of frozen garden…
Drunken Pintos
| June 6, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Recipe, Side Dishes |
What you don’t see in this photo is tequila. Which is a damn shame, because we all need more tequila in our lives. (Side note – when did tequila get such a bad reputation? Sure, Jose Cuervo isn’t going to win any taste tests soon – it’s abrasive, astringent, and more like moonshine than…
Jalapeno-Cheddar Corn Muffins
| May 12, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Appetizers, Breadmaking, Side Dishes, Vegetarian |
Corn bread, corn bread, wherefore art thou, corn bread? If you celebrated Easter with my family, you were awash in a sea of chili and cornbread – a chili cookoff, to be exact, with no fewer than three cornbread recipes to go alongside. You see, tired of the same old ham and cheddar potato casserole…
Irish Soda Bread
| April 22, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Breadmaking, Holidays, Side Dishes, Vegetarian |
Happy (four weeks) post-St. Patrick’s Day! We un-Irish Chicagoans celebrated St. Practice Day, the Saturday before the 17th each year when we dye our river green – or greener than usual. We celebrated St. Patrick’s day with a pint in a pub, a nice way to observe this somewhat meaningless holiday, but one that also…
Balsamic-Braised Brussels Sprouts
| March 22, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Recipe, Side Dishes, Vegetarian |
Oh, SmittenKitchen. You are lovely, funny, healthy (mostly, or at least very veggie-centric) and crazy – the things you do for food, the level and number of steps you aren’t afraid to tackle in a recipe. You are heroic. And, you take some damn fine food porn shots, too. So when I had a…
Spanish Chickpea Salad
| March 17, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Appetizers, Recipe, Salads, Side Dishes, Vegetarian |
Like the country itself, I went through a HUGE tapas phase about 5 years ago. Having just moved from a smaller town to a bigger city, I was agog at all the new kinds of cuisine, ethnic restaurants, all night diners, and myriad other options that presented themselves at every meal time. Trying them all…
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