Posts Tagged: Side Dishes

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Cucumber Yogurt with Mint & Olive Oil

August 30, 2013

Doesn't that just look like a perfect storm of good things?

Last weekend, when we were wandering around the city, Kendrick and I passed a little frozen yogurt shop and peered in the window to read the menu of specialty concoctions. I was confused for a moment as to why anyone would put cucumber and olive oil on frozen yogurt (not that that's necessarily a bad idea, just a slightly confusing one), and then realized: oh. Not a frozen yogurt shop. A yogurt yogurt shop. (Chobani, specifically.)

We ended up continuing on our way without going in, but I kept thinking about that cucumber and olive oil yogurt all week long, and so today I thought I'd give it a shot myself.

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Salt Potatoes With Butter

July 9, 2013

Apparently this is a thing.

My friend Katie - who is from way-upstate New York - served salt potatoes at a BBQ last weekend, and I was pretty confused by the fact that I've never heard of them (as I'm fairly certain I've heard of most things involving too much butter and salt). So I ate quite a few - all in the service of research, of course - and then looked them up.

"Salt potatoes" are young potatoes that you cook in super-salty water (about one pound salt per four pounds of potatoes) and then serve with drizzled butter. The point is that the salt creates a kind of crust on the potatoes, so they don't get waterlogged the same way normal boiled potatoes do, and end up tasting more like they've been baked. They're apparently popular in Syracuse and the surrounding area mostly because the region has a big salt production industry.

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Three-Bean Salad With Mint

March 20, 2013

There are only so many times one can eat the same exact side dish in a given year, and so it was time for a little switch-up.

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Salmon Baked In Foil With Lemon And Dill

January 7, 2013

Delicious, healthy, and kinda impressive looking.

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Orzo with Beets, Clementines & Asparagus

October 18, 2012

Kind of weird combo, right?

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Easy Side Dish: Brown Sugar-Baked Acorn Squash

October 9, 2012

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Tangy Potato-Avocado Salad…With Bacon

August 23, 2012

This Tangy Avocado-Potato Salad is my go-to side-dish of the moment, mostly because we just bought a BBQ and can’t stop making steaks and burgers and things.