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Cowboy dishes have that extra zip and punch of spice and these cowboy mashed potatoes are no different! This mashed potato recipe makes an excellent side dish for grilled meat like steak or chicken, and with its vibrant color, it looks great on a table. How to Make Cowboy Mashed Potatoes Here’s what you’ll need:Continue reading “Cowboy Mashed Potatoes”

Homemade guacamole is obviously a scrumptious go-to dip, but once you try this recipe with charred avocados, you’ll never go back to making it the standard way. Charring the vegetables, including a poblano chili, tomatillos, and white onions, is a simple extra step that lifts guacamole to a new level. Looking for a great sideContinue reading “Charred Avocado Guacamole”

Adding nutritional yeast to roasted potatoes takes this classic side dish up a notch with a bit of a cheesy flavor. It’s the perfect way to make roasted potatoes taste even more delicious. Essentially, you’ll be tossing potatoes with olive oil and nutritional yeast and roasting them just like you would with a standard roastedContinue reading “Roasted Potatoes with Nutritional Yeast”

Roasted red cabbage makes the beautiful and scrumptious side dish for so many meals, and it’s surprisingly fast and easy to make. Once you try baking chunks of cabbage, especially with this steaming process that gives it the perfect texture, you’ll see how this vegetable can transform into a flavorful bite. Looking for a deliciousContinue reading “Roasted Red Cabbage Wedges”

Bacon roses are a tasty little gesture to show some love with a unique and tasty treat. A bacon bouquet is a collection of bacon roses, or candied bacon roses, often arranged together using artificial stems. Instead of actual flowers, the bouquet is made from rolled up pieces of shaped candied bacon. Stems are typicallyContinue reading “Bacon Roses”

One way to pump up bacon to a sweet and spicy bit is to caramelize it into candied bacon.  Making spicy candied bacon is just as easy as making bacon itself. Besides the bacon slices, you just need two other main ingredients: brown sugar and cayenne pepper.  Ingredients:  How to make it Making caramelized baconContinue reading “Spicy Candied Bacon”

Once you try roasted broccoli with nutritional yeast, you’ll be using this recipe again and again. The unique flavor and texture of the nutritional yeast, which some people call cheese yeast, makes the perfect topping for roasted broccoli as it warms into a seasoning described as a bit nutty or cheesy. The combination of theContinue reading “Broccoli With Nutritional Yeast”

Lime rice without cilantro is so easy to make using lime juice and coconut milk for flavoring. Instead of cilantro, here you’ll use fresh basil, but you can omit the basil altogether for a delicious lime rice with coconut that’s still similar to what they serve at Chipotle. Cilantro is an herb that’s not forContinue reading “Lime Rice Without Cilantro”

An eggplant tomato mozzarella bake is an easy recipe to use to roast vegetables that go excellent together with a cheesy topping. Essentially, you’ll be slicing the vegetables into similar sizes, coating them with olive oil, seasoning with salt and pepper layering them, and then baking them. The final phase is adding mozzarella cheese, andContinue reading “Eggplant Tomato Mozzarella Bake”

This tomato and onion pie recipe is definitely one to bookmark! It’s an easy southern tomato pie that’s always a savory hit. You’ll likely be asked for the recipe by whoever takes a bite. So keep this link on hand … it’s absolutely the best tomato pie recipe! How to Make Tomato Pie Start byContinue reading “Tomato and Onion Pie”

Gorgonzola mashed potatoes are a zingy side dish that’s just as easy to make as regular mashed potatoes. You’re simply adding Gorgonzola crumbles in the final stage by gently folding it into the creamy mashed potatoes. This particular mashed potatoes recipe also takes the small extra step of including roasted garlic, which is well worthContinue reading “Gorgonzola Mashed Potatoes”

Blackened brussels sprouts are not “blackened” with seasoning, but blackened in the oven with a honey balsamic glaze. To make brussels sprouts blackened and perfectly crispy, you want a nice sugary glaze that brings out the flavors of the brussels sprouts without burning them. The brussels sprouts should turn black and crispy and be soContinue reading “Blackened Brussel Sprouts”

Garlic haricots verts, or French green beans, are a very light and super easy to make vegetable side dish. With a little bit of lemon and roasted garlic, this is a perfect savory combination. Of course, roasting vegetables always makes them more delicious! Haricots verts are a type of green bean that is a bitContinue reading “Garlic Haricots Verts With Lemon”