Category: Side Dishes
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Ranch Dressing Made with Yogurt
I’ve been spoiled by this homemade Ranch Dressing now. We all like Ranch dressing in restaurants but could never find one in the store we liked so well. I have several variations I like but this one is the girls’ favorite. I’ve simplified the measurements as I got them from America’s Test Kitchen. If you…
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Sausage, Fried Potatoes, Apples and Onions a la Little House on the Prairie
This is one of our all time favorite dinners and almost as easy to make for one or two as for a larger group. If I’m making for one or two, I sacrifice everything being really hot at serving for the convenience of a single pan to clean. 😉 I’ve cooked fried apples to go…
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Black Bean and Avocado Salad from Dinner: A Love Story
After enjoying the blog Dinner: A Love Story for a while, I broke down and bought her cookbook of the same name. Dinner: A Love Story: It all begins at the family table is part memoir and part recipes. I made her black bean and avocado salad, a nice side dish. The book is divided into…
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Homemade Ranch Dressing
This recipe came from America’s Test Kitchen, via a comment here on the blog. It is a tad bit garlicky, which we love. If you’re not so fond of garlic, you might want to use a small clove or just half a medium one. I’ve made it without the fresh cilantro several times. I like…
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Spinach, Orange and Strawberry Salad
For Easter brunch, we squeezed a bunch of oranges and made mimosas. I purposefully squeezed extra orange juice and used some for basting the ham. I had extra and remembered seeing a salad dressing made with orange juice. As it turned out, it was for a spinach salad with strawberries, daikon radish, and oranges. That…