Category: Side Dishes
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Sauteed Summer Vegetables
When the garden is abundant (or if you’ve just been overtaken with greed at the largess at your local farmer’s market), here’s an easy and delicious way to quickly cook up a variety of vegetables. I’ve done this with various combinations of different summer squash, tomatoes, onions, garlic, red pepper–and probably more I’m not remembering.…
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Chicken Salad with Curry, Apples, and Raisins
I’ve been remiss in my blogging. You’d think summer would be the time of taking it easy, but trying to get my “day job” work done at home when the kids are out of school is taking its toll. Cooking has been more repeats than experimentation and what new recipes I’ve tried, I’ve been remiss…
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Cucumber and Mango Salsa
I’ve been enjoying playing around with various non-tomato salsas recently. My favorite is probably still the mango or peach salsa I’ve written up before. The grape and cucumber salsa was also delicious. And this Cucumber and Mango Salsa is worth repeating. It went really well with pork. My parents came down for a visit over the…
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Sauteed Onions
Whenever I barbecue a steak, I always saute some onions to go with it. This is so easy to do but adds so much flavor! Peel the onion, cut it in half, then cut those halves into slices. Heat a bit of olive oil in a pan over a medium-low heat. You want to cook…
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Pasta Salad
Over the weekend, summer started. Well, not exactly. But our summer social life revolves around our neighborhood swim club and we got the first phone call of “Hey, we’re lighting some coals and cooking out tonight at the pool. Want to join us?” I had some of those great apple-chicken sausages. I had some sugar…