Category: Side Dishes
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Honey-Lime Dressing
Got this straight from RecipeGirl. I mixed it all up in my small Magic Bullet Express blender. My girls love it for making smoothies and my youngest likes to whip various home spa concoctions in it, but I do like it for quick salad dressings and marinades. If you don’t have a blender or food…
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Eggplant and Green Pepper in Miso
This is from Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mother’s Tokyo Kitchen which I’ve been enjoying. I just used one small Japanese eggplant and half a green pepper because I was only feeding two people, and I cut back a bit on the sauce ingredients as well. It came out quite…
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Japanese Salad Dressing
This is from Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mother’s Tokyo Kitchen. She says salads are not traditional Japanese food but “sometimes modern is good.” I didn’t follow her directions for the salad ingredients, but did for the dressing and it was really nice. I’ve been tempted to buy the Asian…
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Pickled Cauliflower and Cucumber
This is from a Japanese cookbook, Bento Boxes: Japanese Meals on the Go but it could easily accompany any meal where you wanted a small side dish. I love little side dishes like this. I had actually steamed cauliflower the other night to make this cauliflower with salsa verde. I had some plain steamed cauliflower…
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Saffron Rice in a Rice Cooker
NOT CheapCooking but quite good. 1 Tbs oil 1 Tbs minced onion 1 cup rice 2 cups chicken broth 1 pinch saffron Put the rice cooker on cook and heat a Tbs of oil, then add 1 Tbs of minced onion and cook a few minutes until softened. Stir in the rice and cook a…