Side Dish Recipes

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Simple Baked Sweet Potato Wedges: A One Pan Recipe

Baked Sweet Potato Wedges. Just 5 simple ingredients for these perfectly baked sweet potato wedges with cinnamon.
Cabbage with Sweet Potatoes: Feature Image

Healthy Cabbage with Sweet Potatoes Recipe

Cabbage with Sweet Potatoes. Sweet potatoes and cabbage sautéed in garlic and oil and mixed with stir fry sauce.
Escarole and Beans Recipe: Feature Image

Escarole and Beans Recipe: A 27 Minute Recipe

Escarole and Beans Recipe. Escarole sautéed in garlic and oil and combined with cannellini beans and vegetable broth.
Stir Fry Cabbage with Green Beans: Feature Image

Stir Fry Cabbage with Green Beans: A 35 Minute Recipe

Stir Fry Cabbage with Green Beans. Cabbage sautéed with green beans, tomatoes, and onions and mixed with stir fry sauce.
zucchini with beans and sweet potatoes

Zucchini with Beans and Sweet Potatoes: A 30 Minute Recipe

Zucchini with Beans and Sweet Potatoes. Zucchini sautéed with garlic, onions, tomatoes, and sweet potatoes and mixed with beans.
Potato and Green Bean Salad

Potato and Green Bean Salad: A 42 Minute Recipe

Potatoes and Green Beans Salad. Boiled potatoes and sautéed green beans combined with garlic, basil, and oil and served hot or cold as a side dish.
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Fried Cacuzza: A 50 Minute Recipe

Fried Cacuzza. Italian cacuzza squash cut into wheels, breaded, and fried until golden brown.
Italian Cacuzza Stew Recipe: Feature Image

Italian Cacuzza Stew Recipe

Italian Cacuzza Stew Recipe. Cacuzza sautéed with garlic and onions and cooked down with crushed tomatoes and basil.
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Roasted Garden Vegetables: A 60 Minute Recipe

Roasted Garden Vegetables. Potatoes, carrots, kohlrabi, onions, oregano, and basil mixed with extra virgin olive oil and roasted in the oven.
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Quick Summer Chopped Salad

Summer Chopped Salad. Red roasted peppers, Kalamata olives, carrots, cucumbers, and garbanzo bean chopped with butter bibb lettuce and mixed with Italian dressing.

Welcome to our side dish recipes page

Side Dish Recipes

On this page I share my favorite side dish recipes and ideas from my experiences. Not all ideas turn into great recipes, but they can make for interesting stories, or spark a new idea which eventually leads to amazing food! 

I hope one of these recipes will become a staple with your family, or lead to a fun and enjoyable time cooking together. Start with one of these base recipes and invent what works for you. Add a little of this, take away some of that, or change the cooking method. It is entirely up to you.

A lot of the these recipes I make are full of vegetables. I eat multiple serving of vegetables each day. Sometime all I eat in a day are fruits and vegetables, so I am always looking for simple ways to incorporate vegetables into every dish. My favorite side dishes usually include green beans, broccoli, beans, peppers, onions, garlic, spinach, zucchini, or any other type of vegetable really.

I hope you enjoy these recipes. Let us know what you think.