Colorful, festive marinated vegetables. We make this multiple times a year and it’s always enjoyed at barbecues and parties.
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The easiest way to make corn on the cob-EVER.
This isn’t really a recipe. I mean the recipe is throw the corn on the cob in the oven. Whole. Bake at 350 for about half an hour to 40 minutes. It’s going to look like this…and yes you leave the silk on. That’s what makes this easy. After you
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Hasselback Potatoes Au Gratin
I love those pictures of the individual potatoes that are cooked this way but I’m *way* too lazy to slice a potato like that and stick a piece of butter or cheese in the middle of each slice. Too painful. So I have poked around to find a similar way
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Red Potato Salad with Bacon
This is a nice fresh alternative to traditional potato salad and of course with bacon it’s irresistible. Start by boiling and cooling about 6 red potatoes. These were larger sized. Cut into bite-sized pieces. Fry and crumble 5 pieces of bacon. We prefer it pretty crisp for this recipe. Chop
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Roasted Cauliflower
This is a great side dish. I have made this recipe multiple times and have found that a quick parboil in the microwave really helps to get it cooked correctly. The other times I just baked it, the outside was overdone and the inside was still raw. That was not
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Twice Baked Potatoes
These are so wonderful with the salt on the outside and so crispy. We just eat the whole thing skins and all. Rub the outside of clean dried potatoes with oil (olive or canola) then rub salt on the outside. This works best with larger salt crystals like Himalayan salt
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Baked Asparagus
Asparagus is one of my most very favorite vegetables. I never would have thought that you could improve on lightly steamed asparagus with just a bit of salt and a squeeze of lemon, and when I first saw this recipe I was skeptical that it could be much better. I
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Fish Tacos and Spanish Rice
Fish Tacos When we were visiting San Diego, one of the things that we were told we MUST try is the fish tacos. We had been making our own fish tacos for quite a while (hey when you have a freezer full of Walleye, you pretty much make anything with
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