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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.
2 bowls of orzo pasta in a green herb sauce with diced cucumbers, red onions, and green onions. One bowl has shredded parmesan and a spoon. Side view.

Lemon Dill Orzo Salad with Feta

Top view of a small white bowl of ceviche (diced white fish, red onions, yellow and red peppers, lime juice, and cilantro) with 3 crackers sticking out of bowl.

Amberjack Ceviche

Roasted Brussels Sprouts halves on a brown plate with cooked bacon. Side view. Close up.

Crispy Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Pancetta

Verticle Bowl of Corn Chowder w/ Sweet Potatoes, Bacon, Cilantro, and Avocado Garnish. Close up.

Sweet Potato Corn Chowder

Close up of halved cucumbers with seeds taken out tossed in a soy / sesame oil sauce and topped with sesame seeds and cilantro.

Simple Asian Cucumber Salad

Small wood bowl filled with shredded cole slaw with crispy tortilla chips in it.

Easy Cole Slaw Dip (Mexican Cabbage Dip)

Raw whole okra laid on spaciously on a stainless steel baking sheet.

Easy Oven Roasted Whole Okra

Top view of white oval bowl of black beans with a cilantro leaf garnish.

Easy Spiced Up Black Beans

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

Apple, Celery, Raisin & Walnut Salad In A Brown Dish With a Spoon

Simple Apple, Celery, and Walnut Salad

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 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

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

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

Sweet Pea, Almond, and Radish Salad

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

My Favorite Potato and Egg Salad

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

Strawberry Arugula Salad with Goat Cheese

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

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

Quinoa Salad with Feta, Artichoke, Olives

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

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

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

Cold Asparagus And Tomato Salad

Romaine lettuce chunked, chunks of tomatoes, red peppers, whole olives and crumbled feta cheese. On a white plate.

Easy Mediterranean Salad with Feta Cheese

Shrimp Salad w/ Horseradish, Chives, Lemon In A White Bowl.

Simple and Easy Cold Shrimp Salad

Arugula Salad topped with small mozzarella balls and cherry tomatoes on two white plates with knife and fork and salt and pepper shakers. top view.

Arugula Caprese Salad with Ciliegine Mozzarella

Top view. Chunks of shredded chicken, with whole cashews, raisins, and celery in a yellow curry mayonnaise dressing. White bowl.

Cashew Curry Chicken Salad

Top down view of sliced cucumbers and red onions in a tan bowl. Close up.

Cucumber Dill Salad with Vinegar and Onions

Top down view of a wood bowl of pasta salad with basil and silverware on the side.

Orzo Salad with Sun Dried Tomatoes and Feta

Seared and browned caramelized sliced zucchini rounds on a white plate with red pepper flakes lightly garnished. Top view crop to a rectangle.

Simple Pan Fried Zucchini Rounds

Corn, Edamame, & Red pepper Succotash with red peppers with a fork in a brown bowl. close up.

Easy Corn and Edamame Succotash

3 Corn Grilled in Darkened Husks and peeled back to exposed charred kernals.

Grilled Corn On The Cob in Husk

White bowl of chunky red onions, cucumbers, tomatoes, yellow and red peppers salad. Wood spoon it it.

Simple Summer Salad - Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Peppers

Top view of a white plate with fork with quartered figs, sliced salami, shaved parmesan and croutons.

Fig and Salami Panzanella Salad with Parmesan

Round pie pan filled with sliced zucchini tomatoes with walnuts and cheese baked and crisp. 2 fork in the background. Close up.

Baked Zucchini and Tomato Casserole

Top view of a bowl of cole slaw: cabbage and grated carrots in a white bowl. Forks on the side.

Simple and Easy Coleslaw

Oval white bowl of corn salad w/ quartered cherry tomatoes, jalapeños, red onions, and cilantro. Side view.

Easy Frozen Corn and Tomato Salad

Close up top image of cooked cherry tomatoes, sliced basil, creamy chunks of goat cheese, sliced pepperoncini, and garlic in a bowl.

Baked Tomato and Goat Cheese Pasta

2 wood bowls and one larger white bowl of chunks of peaches, tomato, and corn salsa. Spoons on the side.

Peach, Corn, And Tomato Salsa

White plate of brown seared / blistered small green peppers with a small white bowl of light orange peach sauce.

Blistered Shishito Peppers with Peach Sauce

2 spring rolls cut in half (4 halves) filled with avocado, grated carrots and red cabbage, rice noodles, green lettuce on a wood cutting board.

Healthy Vegetable Spring Rolls

1 white plate with corn on the cob with butter and dusted with chile powder. 3 pieces of plain corn on the cob in the background.

Corn with Honey Lime Butter

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