Side Dishes

Green Pea Tartlets Recipe
Green Pea Tartlets

These puff pastry tartlets taste just like spring with fresh peas, spring onions, herbs, and creamy goat cheese.

Baked Ricotta with Spring Peas and Lemon

Full-fat ricotta is browned with breadcrumbs and baked with peas, lemon, sage, garlic, and onions. Take a whiff and then dig in!

Crunchy Spring Salad

Loaded with greens, tomatoes, toasted hazelnuts, and cheese, this crunchy salad is a perfect spring and summer side dish.

Tofu Radicchio Salad

Looking for a juicy, refreshing salad complete with protein? Look no further. Loaded with fruit, radicchio and tofu, this salad has it all.

Carrot and Caper Salad

On a warm day, enjoy a cool, crunchy vibrant carrot salad with simple Sicilian flavor such as capers and oregano.

Spicy Pickled Radishes

With a refreshing crunch and loaded with zest and a touch of spice, these quick pickled radishes are easy to make and throw on burgers, tacos, salads, and more.

Simple Vegan Pesto

Vegan Pesto is simple to make and bursting with healthy and wholesome ingredients. It’s so good, that your guests won’t be able to tell the difference.

Umami Roasted Tomatoes and Farro

Get a full helping of healthy Umami flavor from this dish. Roasted Tomatoes pair with cooked Farro to produce a savory flavor that permeates the whole dish.

Crunchy Spring Salad

Loaded with greens, tomatoes, toasted hazelnuts, and cheese, this crunchy salad is a perfect spring and summer side dish.

Pinot Noir Barbecue Sauce

Make the most of your Memorial Day grilling with a barbecue sauce infused with SIMI Sonoma County’s Pinot Noir wine.

Carrot Ginger Soup

This carrot ginger soup is a perfectly easy comfort food suitable for any eater, even paleo, and is creamy without any dairy.

Yogurt Topped With Berries

This early morning breakfast will fill you up, tantalize your taste bud, and put you on the right track to enjoy your Sunday!

Homemade Ricotta Cheese

Why buy ricotta cheese when you can make your own? Homemade ricotta is quite simple to execute and packs in tons of fresh flavor.

Simple Artichoke Pesto

While simple, Artichoke Pesto is quite versatile and flexible in its applications. Crostini, pasta, grilled items. The sky’s the limit!

Tocsi Rustic Hungarian Potatoes
Rustic Hungarian Potatoes: Tócsi

Learn how to make tócsi, a fast, simple and delicious potato recipe from the Hungarian countryside.

Tahini and Cilantro Sweet Potato Wedges

Sweet potatoes are good for you. With this recipe they are also super tasty and loaded with cumin.

How to Preserve Baby Artichokes

Artichokes prepared in one of the many classic Italian styles. Make these to have a perfect piece to your antipasto eating.

Beautiful Asparagus with Lemon and Garlic

Spring is a wonderful time of the year to enjoy this beautiful asparagus with lemon and garlic Recipe. A simple, quick Italian side dish. Ready in 10 minutes.

Spring Asparagus with Dijon Vinaigrette

Grilled Asparagus With Dijon Mustard Vinaigrette – easy springtime recipe, ready in 30 minutes.

Jalapeño Cornbread Fritters

Sweet, spicy and fried! Jalapeño Cornbread fritters are a fun treat for parties or for the entire family to snack on.

How to Make Kimchi

Load up in nutritious probiotics by making delicious kimchi that is perfect with fried rice, ramen, noodles, to top burgers and so much more. It is easier to create than you think.

Tarragon and Shallot Vinaigrette
French Tarragon and Shallot Vinaigrette

Make every salad a special occasion with this French tarragon and shallot vinaigrette. Fresh, flavorful, and just a whisk away.

Tomato-Less Pasta Sauce

Made with beets, carrots, and squash, this red sauce is a delicious new way to think of marinara or pasta sauce.

Smashed Potatoes with Feta Cream

Smashed red potatoes with a feta sour cream are a perfect appetizer that is easy to create, but has addictive flavor.

Baked Turmeric Fennel with Apple and Coconut

This earthy dish is loaded with unique, light flavor and comes with the comforting aromatics of a coconut curry.

Spring Asparagus Soup

When asparagus is abundant in early spring, it is served everywhere in Italy. Try Chef Andrew Aghajanian’s version of a light spring soup.

Spring Carrot Soup

Gloriously delightful ingredients come together to create a stunning spring carrot soup with a hint of winter and a topping of focaccia croutons.

Homemade Sauerkraut

Add more probiotics to your diet through fermented foods, starting with this easy, homemade sauerkraut.

How to Make Guanciale
How to Make Guanciale at Home

Learn how to make cured Italian-style pork jowl that can be used in a variety of dishes, including pasta carbonara, to add a delicious depth of flavor.

Revamped Pesto with Cashews and Hemp

Without dairy, this pesto is packed with flavor from creamy cashews and hemp.

Caramelized Grapes and Spicy Walnut Arugula Salad with Matzo Crumbles

An elegant and unique spring salad with roasted grapes, feta, and matzo crumbles, this is perfect for Passover but it can be eaten anytime.

Homemade Ricotta Cheese

Intrigued or curious about how to make creamy, rich, ricotta cheese at home? It’s so easy, you should try it this weekend!

Raw Summer Roll Salad with Almond Butter Vinaigrette

This easy, raw salad tastes just like a summer roll, but without all the work!

Fresh Mozzarella Salad with Artichokes and Heirloom Beans

A simple salad with flavorful beans, a zesty dressing, and creamy mozzarella. Artichokes bring this salad to the same flavor profile as delicious antipasto.

Roasted Poblano Caesar Salad

This warm weather has us thinking of fresh, bright flavors. Reinvent the classic caesar salad with avocados and a vibrant roasted poblano dressing.

How to Perfectly Roast Tomatoes

Perfectly, sweet roasted tomatoes are delicious in so many recipes and great to have on had to spruce up a dish or appetizers in a flash.

Naan Finished With Chives and Sesame Seeds

The perfect accompaniment to a saucy dish. Let this light and airy, bread-like dough soak up what’s left on the plate to really complete your meal!

Delicious Veggie Filled Nori Wraps

These nori wraps are packed with healthy veggies–avocado, squash, cabbage–and topped with a miso tahini sauce. A great easy snack recipe!

Cheesy Broccoli Cheddar Soup

In the mood for something cheesy but still in need of some greens? Look no further! This cheesy broccoli cheddar soup is just what you have been waiting for.

2 Ingredient Cauliflower Rice Recipe

Cauliflower is all the craze these days. This recipe has got onto the bandwagon and made cauliflower rice. Let’s hop on.

Easy Rosemary Focaccia Bread

When you’re having the kind of meal that is crying out for bread to go alongside it, why not make your own? This no-knead rosemary focaccia bread takes just one hour to make from start to finish.

Mediterranean Potatoes in Tomato Sauce

A traditional dish shared throughout Mediterranean countries, potatoes in tomato sauce is a quick and delicious dish to be served alongside any meat or fish.

Clean Eating Bell Pepper Soup {and the New Eating Clean Cookbook}

Cooking and eating can taste good and feel good to your body. Check out this new cookbook and try out a perfectly easy soup for the end of winter.

Caper and Olive Salad in a Parmigiano Cup

As a starter course or appetizer bite, this caper and olive salad is served in a Parmigiano cup for an elegant aperitif.

Mint, Garlic, Peppers, Sprouts and Baby Potato Salad

A delightful recipe of boiled baby potatoes with mint and garlic, spruced up with fresh peppers and sprouts.

Easy Green Beans with Crispy Bacon

Love bacon? Then you’ll love this dish. And with only five ingredients, it is easy, fast and really delicious.

Roasted Delicata Squash Rings

That plate of fried onion rings can be pushed to the side. These roasted Delicate squash rings beautifully drizzled with color is what should be on your table tonight.

Sri Lankan Potato-Cashew Curry

February is National Potato Month, get your spud on with an aromatically spiced, potato and cashew curry from Sri Lanka.

Easy Greek Lemon Potatoes

Also known as patatas lemonates, these Greek lemon potatoes are so easy to make and receive a hint of turmeric for a special spin.

Roasted Butternut Squash with Cranberries, Walnuts, and Gorgonzola

Simply roasted with olive oil, this butternut squash makes a beautiful holiday side with toasted nuts, dried cranberries, and creamy gorgonzola.

Slow Cooker Tomato Sauce

Slow cooker tomato sauce is rich, thick and hearty. Let the ease of a slow cooker do all the work for you, while you reap the rewards!

Irish Colcannon Potatoes

A hearty winter dish, make Irish colcannon potatoes loaded with cabbage, bacon, and the best butter and cream you can find.

Radicchio and Mashed Potatoes

Add bright purple color to your winter table with radicchio. The elegant vegetable takes a simple dish of mashed potatoes to a whole new level.

Sweet and Sour Pickled Beets

Easily make your own spiced and pickled beets for a perfect meat and cheese board or salad accompaniment.

Parsley Pesto and Sweet Potato Fries

Drizzled with a garlic and parsley pesto, these baked sweet potato fries are a delicious winter snack packed with nutrients.

Andouille Sausage and Cajun Shrimp Stuffed Potatoes

Do surf ‘n turf, potato-style, with flavorful andouille sausage and cajun shrimp. Filled with the flavors of New Orleans, these cheesy, spiced potatoes are delicious pleasers.

Meatless Zucchini Meatballs

If you want crunchy and vegetarian, these zucchini meatballs are for you. Slowly baked, served…

A Sweet Potato Halwa Recipe for Navratri

Navratri, meaning “nine nights” is a Hindu holiday that celebrates the feminine form of the Devi, or godess. In honor of this nine day celebration where one must fast, this is a sweet potato recipe to have in small amounts throughout the celebration.

Lamb Neck, Kale, and Potato Pastry Pockets

Stuffed pastry pockets of any kind are a comforting snack on a cold day. This recipe is stuffed with meaty goodness and could go well with a frothy beer.

Colorful Black Eyed Pea Salad

Colorful, zesty, as a side or with chips, this black eyed pea salad is quite the versatile stunner.