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Side Dish Recipes

Top view of a smashed (flattened) potato with sour cream and chives. On a white plate with black rim.

Side dishes might not seem very glorious, as they typically play a supporting role for the main dish they are paired with, but often it's the side that actually makes the meal.

Add some pizazz to your dinner and look below for my favorite recipes with mushrooms, potatoes, rice, cabbage, or pan fried zucchini recipes:

  • yukon gold potato recipes - Oven roasted Yukon Gold Potatoes , Crispy Smashed Potatoes, Easy Roasted Whole Baby Potatoes, Potato Salad
  • Red / purple cabbage recipes - Simple Sautéed Red Cabbage , Easy Cole Slaw Dip, Kale and Red Cabbage Salad, Roasted Cabbage Wedges
  • Mushroom recipes - Tamari Oyster Mushrooms , Easy Chanterelle Mushrooms, Easy Shiitake Mushrooms with Black Pepper
  • yellow Spanish rice recipe
  • Mashed Recipes: Ricer Mashed Potatoes, Mashed Sweet Potatoes, Mashed Celeriac.
Romaine lettuce chunked, chunks of tomatoes, red peppers, whole olives and crumbled feta cheese. On a white plate.

Easy Mediterranean Salad with Feta Cheese

Breaded and Fried Green Tomatoes Layered and laying on a white paper towels on a white plate.

Southern Fried Green Tomatoes

Fresh asparagus, red onions, cherry tomatoes and a dijon mustard & white wine vinaigrette.

Cold Asparagus And Tomato Salad

Stainless steel deep skillet filled with white beans and diced tomatoes with a lightly pulsed pesto of kale and almonds.

Cannellini Beans with Kale Pesto

Top down view of grain salad with feta cheese on a colorful table runner.

Quinoa Salad with Feta, Artichoke, Olives

White bowl of crispy shiitake mushrooms with 4 sprigs of rosemary in it and a purple napkin on the side. Side View.

Pan Fried Shiitake Mushrooms Recipe with Black Pepper

Shrimp and Chorizo Stew w Potatoes and Corn Recipe in A White Bowl - Eat Simple Food

Shrimp and Chorizo Stew with Kale

Top view of 3 black bowls of edamame with ginger and soy sauce on a wood cutting board with 3 sets of chopsticks.

Easy Shelled Edamame with Soy Sauce

Brown bowl full of cooked diced chicken, diced celery and pickles, diced red onions stirred with white mayonnaise and garnished with parsley. Wood spoon in it.

The Best Cold Chicken Salad

White plate of romaine lettuce, chunked beets and chopped pecans with a white dressing and orange zest garnish. Wine glass filled with water in the back. Outside table.

Roasted Beet and Romaine Salad with Pecans

Close up. Bowl of sliced sugar snap peas, orange peppers, red cabbage, and candy stripe beet . Large White bowl with a wooden spoon.

Sugar Snap Pea Slaw w/ Ume Plum Vinegar

Diced egg mixed with thyme, diced red onions, capers, and sliced chives on a bed of butter lettuce.

Simple Egg Salad with Thyme and Chives

2 white plates with thin sliced fennel, chunks of avocado and quartered cherry tomato salad

Fennel Salad with Tomatoes and Avocado

quartered strawberries, chopped pecans, and crumbled goat cheese on arugula salad on a shallow bowl/plate.

Strawberry Arugula Salad with Goat Cheese

Bowl of Tzatziki (yogurt, cucumbers, lemon) sauce. falafels in background.

Easy Chunky Tzatziki Sauce (No Garlic)

Falafels on a wood cutting board with a side plate of 2 falafels and a bowl of white cucumber tzatziki. side view.

Pan Fried Falafels with Canned Chickpeas

top view of potato salad on a square aqua plate with utensils on the side. Close up view.

My Favorite Potato and Egg Salad

Top down view of white oval bowl filled with cooked mushrooms with pistachios and chopped basil. Close up.

Sautéed Mushrooms with Pistachios and Basil

Bowl of cooked bright green fava (broad) beans with salt and pepper in a white bowl with a spoon.

Fresh Fava Beans / Broad Beans with Butter

Top view of a raw artichoke sitting in a steaming basket of a large stainless steel pot. Top view.

Steamed Artichoke with Lemon Butter Dipping Sauce

Diced and roasted Kabocha Squash with Peppers and leeks on a big white plate with a wood spoon. side view.

Kabocha Squash Breakfast Hash

Green Sweet Pea, Toasted Sliced Almonds & Thin Sliced Radishes in a brown bowl with a spoon hanging out.

Sweet Pea, Almond, and Radish Salad

White Bowl of farro, and edamame with a small bowl of toasted pine nuts and another small wood ball with a portion size of the dish topped with feta. side view.

Farro Salad with Edamame, Pine Nuts, Feta Cheese

Cooked Soft boiled Egg Wrapped in Turkey, Coated With Panko, Baked And Cut In half on a plate.

Oven Baked Turkey Scotch Eggs

Top view of artichoke salad with kalamata olives, sliced orange peppers, capers and a bowl of pickled red onions on the side.

Baby Artichoke Salad with Pickled Onions

Close up of wood bowl of green salad with raisins, crushed almonds, and red pepper flakes. Fork on the side.

Kale and Almond Salad with Lemon Dressing

Top view. White bowl with spoon of white rice covered in yellow brown creamy lentil puree. White bowl of rice on side.

Simple Coconut Red Lentils And Rice

Cauliflower florets roasted brown on a wood cutting board with a white platter that says "let's eat" sitting behind it.

Simple Oven Roasted Cauliflower Florets

Sliced Roasted Sunchokes (Jerusalem Artichokes) On A White Plate With Green Onion Garnish

Roasted Sunchokes (Jerusalem Artichokes)

Close up of wood bowl filled with cooked cabbage slices and topped with sesame seeds with a fork in the bowl. Salt and pepper shakers in background.

Pan Fried Napa Cabbage with Sesame Seeds

Top down view of chunky cooked onions, zucchini, peppers on a brown plate with white napkin in background. Close up.

Chunky Pan Seared Onions, Peppers, Zucchini

Top view of three small white bowls of diced red beets. Two bowls with crumbled goat cheese and orange zest. One bowl with just orange zest is close up and in front.

Roasted Beets with Orange Balsamic Dressing

Blood Oranges & Roasted Yellow and Red Beets on a white plate with thyme and walnuts sprinkled over the top.

Blood Orange and Beet Salad

Mashed Cooked Sweet Potatoes in A white Bowl

Easy Mashed Sweet Potatoes

Top down view of white bowl with chopped greens and sauce in it. Small bowl of chili flakes on the side.

Simple Vegetarian Collard Greens

5 Roast Sweet Potato Slices on a white plate with a dollop of sour cream and chive garnish.

Roasted Sweet Potato Coins with Cumin

Browned whole head of cauliflower on an elevated rack above parchment paper. Side view.

Simple Whole Roasted Cauliflower

Baked Crispy Kale "Chips" On A white plate. Side View

Crispy Oven Baked Kale Chips

Wood bowl of pimento cheese with 3 crackers and a small spoon hanging out. Crackers on plate in background and one with pimento cheese on it.

Easy Homemade Pimento Cheese

Yellow Spanish Rice With Peas and Carrots In a Brown Bowl With a spoon On a Dark Wood Table.

Easy Homemade Yellow Spanish Rice

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I’m Beckie Hemmerling. I love food and I think of it on a basic level of providing strength & nourishment. Cooking has helped me *try* to figure out life, not just my own, but also other people's. I have cooked through many joys / sorrows and cooking has always been a meditative place through these highs & lows. More background info →

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