I couldn’t let Thanksgiving come and go without sharing a new recipe with you. Before we get to the recipe that I’m excited to share with you today, I wanted to take a minute to share with you some of the things I am thankful for this year: Family and friends who are like family to us. My husband – he’s worked extremely hard to provide for us this year. Good health Coffee, chocolate, and this blog where I get to share my love of food with you! This year I’m not hosting Thanksgiving dinner, but I am making apple pie and pumpkin pie. I am pretty traditional…
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Salt Crusted Baby Potatoes
These Salt Crusted Baby Potatoes might be our new favorite side! With almost no prep time, you can let your oven do all the hard work for this low maintenance side dish. These little babies are soft on the inside with crispy and salty skins. Each time I make these the hubby and I have to stop ourselves from eating the whole batch! Toss the washed and dried potatoes with olive oil, salt, and pepper. That’s it. Then bake them until the insides are tender and the skins are wrinkled. I’ve made these with a couple different types of baby potatoes and the baby gold potatoes are hands down my favorite. Check out…
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Sweet Creamed Rice
There are some recipes that remind me of my mom’s kitchen growing up and this Sweet Creamed Rice would definitely be one of them. I grew up loving this dish each time my mom made it and now I love to make it in my own kitchen. As the name would make you think, this Sweet Creamed Rice isn’t your typical savory side dish, but unique sides keep the dinner table interesting. While I consider this a special side dish, there aren’t any fancy ingredients or fussy instructions. Just simple, everyday pantry staples combined to make an extra special side that I love to serve alongside grilled chicken, steak or even meatloaf. This…
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Sticky Rice
While rice isn’t spectacular, it is the foundation for several of our favorite dinners, one that I will be sharing later this week. It might be shocking but rice has given me fits over the years. I mean, the directions are on the bag, how hard can it be? Well after lots of nights with dry or hard rice I knew needed a new recipe. But there were a few rules, it needed to be sticky and fast. This sticky rice lays the perfect foundation for the recipe I’m going to be sharing later this week. Think Chipotle meets Hibachi. Interested yet? Sticky Rice Ingredients: 2 cups medium grain white rice 3…
