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Side Dish Recipes

Grilled Zucchini Recipe with Feta and Red Pepper Flakes

Grilled Zucchini Recipe with Feta and Red Pepper Flakes

Zucchini is my favorite vegetable. We eat it pretty darn often in the summer when it’s easy to find. My favorite zucchini recipe is this grilled zucchini recipe with feta. It’s super simple, there are only a few ingredients, and it’s quick to make. Ingredients 

Rosemary and Garlic Drop Biscuits

Rosemary and Garlic Drop Biscuits

There is nothing I love more than BISCUITS. Okay, actually I do love mac and cheese more than biscuits, but they are definitely my second favorite food. This recipe for rosemary garlic drop biscuits is a super simple and quick biscuit recipe. You just mix 

Creamy Lemon Parmesan Orzo

Creamy Lemon Parmesan Orzo

When we moved to West Virginia, we met some of our very best friends Liz and Don. Not only are they one of the sweetest couples with a smart and fun daughter, but they are also some of the biggest foodies and best cooks we 

5 Holiday Side Dishes for Christmas Dinner

5 Holiday Side Dishes for Christmas Dinner

  I mentioned that I hosted my first Thanksgiving this year, with a lot of help from my mom. I won’t be hosting Christmas dinner as we’re making our rounds with the families in Michigan and will be spoiled rotten with all the good food 

Loaded Au Gratin Potatoes

Loaded Au Gratin Potatoes

I received a mandoline slicer for my birthday one year. It was something I’d wanted for a while to prep potatoes, zucchini, and Brussels sprouts. I made a classic au gratin potato recipe for the first time when my husband and I had our first 

Roasted Lemon Pepper Green Beans

Roasted Lemon Pepper Green Beans

There are few things I like better than quick and easy vegetable recipes. When the weather warms up, I’m much more open to eating veggies with my meal and my favorite are definitely green beans. They are so easy! Sometimes I buy the kind you 

Quinoa with Garlic and Mushrooms

Quinoa with Garlic and Mushrooms

Have you ever had quinoa? Have you ever tried to spell quinoa? I just did both of these things for the first time this week! As a side for our Saturday steak night, I made a mushroom and garlic quinoa that I absolutely loved. I’d 

Skillet Mushrooms with Butter and Thyme

Skillet Mushrooms with Butter and Thyme

So I have to admit that my fiance’s low-carb game is strong. He’s started eating more carbs again (like these rosemary and garlic biscuits I recently made), but we still limit them during dinner. The whole meat and veggie thing has actually become something we