Category: Side Dishes
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BLT Chicken Salad with Easy Ranch Dressing
Here’s another easy Ranch dressing to go this BLT Chicken Salad. In fact, I didn’t have buttermilk so I created a substitute with 1 teaspoon of vinegar in 1/3 cup milk. Just stir it in and let it sit for 5 minutes or so and you’ll have some slightly curdled buttermilk-like base for dressings. You…
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Cauliflower Cheese
I was rereading The Shell Seekers, a lovely book, and they kept serving cauliflower cheese during the war. It made me want to try some. When I looked it up, it seems it is basically cooked cauliflower with a cheese sauce on top, sounded both easy and good. And I had a cauliflower sitting in…
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Smashed Red Potatoes (aka Crash Hot Potatoes)
I’m not sure why these are called “crash hot potatoes” as they’re really more smashed. I saw someone else reference them on their blog, but can’t remember who. Then when I Googled the name, it seems that Ree Drummond got them from an Australian Jill Dupleix. I could have baked mine longer to get them…
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Grilled Corn on the Cob
The easiest way I’ve found to grill corn on the cob is to pull the husks back toward the stalk, then remove the silk, then fold the husks back up to cover the ears somewhat. You don’t have to cover the corn back up all the way. Some charred corn tastes good. In fact, you…
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How to Cook Artichokes
I’m often asked how to cook artichokes. I grew up mostly in California and we ate a lot of artichokes. I only remember my mom boiling them in water and serving with mayonnaise and lemon juice, which is still a favorite of mine. We love artichokes–so much so that I have 3 plants of my…