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Side Dishes

Individual Pita Pizzas

Individual Pita Pizzas

This dish is quick to cook and easy to prepare.  It makes the perfect party food, since guests can assemble their own mini pizzas and create the exact blend of ingredients they're looking for.  This is also a great one to make with the kids or over a campfire.

Yummy Easy Shrimp Dip
  • Time: 15 minutes to assemble + 1 hour or overnight to chill
  • Complexity: easy

Yummy Easy Shrimp Dip

This is a great dip appetizer for a crowd. Serve with veggies or crisp crackers like a water cracker, Ritz or Triscuit. Enjoy!

Crunchy Peanut Dipping Sauce
  • Time: 1/2 an hour
  • Complexity: easy

Crunchy Peanut Dipping Sauce

peanut-dipping-sauce

This is a great dipping sauce chicken wings, chicken fingers, shrimp, scallops or steak bites.

Orange Spiked Green Beans
  • Time: 15 to 20 minutes
  • Complexity: easy

Orange Spiked Green Beans

This is a great make ahead recipe. And since the flavors get better the longer they sit, this is a fabulous recipe to make in bulk for a potluck.

Grilled Veggies with Feta in a Whole Wheat Pita
  • Time: 15 to 20 minutes
  • Complexity: easy

Grilled Veggies with Feta in a Whole Wheat Pita

This is a great recipe to use leftover veggies.

Bloody Mary Shrimp Pasta
  • Time: 30 minutes
  • Complexity: easy
  • Origin: American

Bloody Mary Shrimp Pasta

This is a great twist on the perennial brunch favorite Bloody Mary.

This will serve 4 as a main course and 6 to 8 as an appetizer.

Tangy Ginger Asian Slaw
  • Time: 15 minutes to assemble + at least an hour to chill
  • Complexity: very easy

Tangy Ginger Asian Slaw

asian-slaw

This is a recipe based on an original chinablue sauce created by Richard Wong.

Spanish Tortilla also called Tortilla de Patata or Potato Omelette

Spanish Tortilla also called Tortilla de Patata or Potato Omelette

spanish-tortilla

This is a wonderful filling dish, eaten across Spain. You can eat this dish warm, or cold. It is great in wedges warm, but it is also great served in thin slices on a fresh baguette. You can serve with cheese or sausage to add a little protein, or enjoy plain.

Tomato, Basil and Fresh Mozzarella Salad
  • Time: 15 minutes
  • Complexity: easy

Tomato, Basil and Fresh Mozzarella Salad

This makes a great, fresh tasting salad that is simple to prepare and can be a great picnic dish. The recipe for this dish is very flexible, if you enjoy some flavors more than others you can adjust the recipe however you see fit.

Classic Potato Salad
  • Time: about a 1/2 hour
  • Complexity: easy

Classic Potato Salad

This picnic and cook-out classic is easy to make ahead and hold up well with proper refrigeration.

Garlic Roasted Pumpkin

Garlic Roasted Pumpkin

baked-pumpkin-with-garlic-olive oil-rosemaryThis simple recipe is a great side dish for most fall meals and it is fresh and seasonal during the fall. If you don't have pumpkin, but you do have other types of squash in your house, like acorn squash, you can substitute those for the pumpkin.

Barbequed Onion Recipe
  • Time: 20 minutes prep + 45 minutes cook time.
  • Complexity: easy
  • Origin: American

Barbequed Onion Recipe

Whole sweet onions packaged in foil.  Plan on 1 onion for each person - everyone gets thier own onion package.  Experiment with types of bacon.  This recipes call for maple smoked bacon but would be great with peppered  or applewood smoked bacon.

Campfire Whole Wheat Pizza Crust
  • Time: 2 to 3 hours for dough + just minutes of cooking time
  • Complexity: easy
  • Origin: Italian

Campfire Whole Wheat Pizza Crust

You'll be amazed - this is super easy and chances are you'll never make pizza in your oven again.

This will make enough dough for 4 large pizzas or 8 individual crusts.

Tip: Crust can be made in advance and frozen unitl use.

Twice Baked Potato
  • Complexity: easy

Twice Baked Potato

twice-baked-potatoYummy - potatoey goodness.  This is a all time favorite with family anf friend + kids love it.

Vegetable Kabob Recipe
  • Time: 15 minutes to assemble + 1 hour to chill & marinate + 10 to 15 minutes to cook
  • Complexity: very easy

Vegetable Kabob Recipe

Yummy grilled vegetables with a simple fresh marinade.  The perfect faimily friendly side dish for any meal.  Kids love anything on a stick.

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