Tag: Side Dishes

Savory Roasted Broccoli Recipe

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Do you have trouble getting your kids or husband to eat vegetables? My 3 year old daughter had always said “I don’t like broccoli!” until she finally tried my Savory Roasted Broccoli Recipe. Now she says “Broccoli is super yummy!”. Yes, my 3 year old LOVES broccoli! My husband even enjoys it and my known to be picky 17 month old CRIES FOR BROCCOLI! Yes, cries! It’s like music to my ears!

Trust me, you’ll want to try this easy and delicious recipe for Savory Roasted Broccoli!

Ingredients:

  • Fresh broccoli
  • Olive Oil
  • Salt and/or any other spices you’d like. I’ve tried it with minced garlic and a squeeze of lemon juice, but the kids didn’t like it as well (I thought it was delicious!).

Directions:

  1. Cut the florets apart into bite sized pieces. The smaller the pieces, the less cook time you’ll need. You want the broccoli as dry as you can get it, so if you wash it, dry it thoroughly!! I don’t wash mine. I figure it’s cooked at a high enough temperature to kill any  germs!
  2. Toss in a resealable bag
  3. Pour in 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil, depending on how much broccoli you use. I used 2 Tbsp. on the above broccoli
  4. Seal the bag and give it a good shake to get the broccoli well covered with oil.
  5. Pour onto tin foil lined baking pan and season with salt or other desired spices.
  6. Finally, roast in a pre-heated 425 degree oven for 20-25 minutes (depending on broccoli size). Turn broccoli half way through cooking.

Your finished product will be tender, tasty, savory roasted broccoli! Now, go surprise your family and show them that broccoli can be “super yummy!”.

Enjoy!

Lighter “Yellow” Potato Salad

I am trying to eat healthier. Really and truly I am. 

Deprivation to me though is like an invitation to do really really well for a day and really really horrible for a week, so I try to have my cake and eat it too by making lighter versions of the recipes I love.

The thing is, I hate the taste of food that is clearly just a substitute for the real thing!

So my substitutions not only have to be of the healthier variety, they also have to either mimic or enhance the dish to pass my high standards.

This recipe does both. 

I am a mustard potato salad kind of girl. Well make that, mustard with a healthy 1/2 cup of mayo. ;)

Not very healthy!

So I decided to attempt to cut some of the mayo out by using Greek Yogurt in my favorite potato salad recipe. I used this recipe as a base and built on it. I didn’t have some of the ingredients she asked for in this recipe, so it’s a pretty big departure, but it’s still worth crediting as my source.

Lighter “Yellow” Potato Salad

Ingredients:

  • 4-5 Yukon Gold potatoes (I peeled, cut and boiled them first…I have tried the other method she describes in the past and it’s never successfully worked for me)
  • 2 Tbsp Mayo
  • 3 Tbsp Greek Yogrt
  • 1 Tbsp mustard (I personally would increase this to 2 next time)
  • 3 Tbsp chives
  • Salt & Pepper to taste

Directions:

Mix all the ingredients together and chill before serving.

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Sweet Potato Spears Recipe-Baked Not Fried!


This is a guest post by Cheryl Siens

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It’s that time of year, when sweet potatoes start going on sale.  Being from the South, my favorite way to eat them is candied, with lots of brown sugar and marshmallows. Mmmmmm   But I always make myself wait till Thanksgiving to candy them.  In the meantime, I hate to let a good sale go to waste, so I found this yummy recipe for sweet potato spears.  And, in case you didn’t know, sweet potatoes are heart healthy – when you leave off the marshmallows and brown sugar.  ;-)

Sweet Potato Spears 

  • 1 ½ lbs Sweet Potatoes peeled and cut length wise into wedges
  • 1tbs olive oil
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp thyme
  • ¼ tsp black pepper
  • 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg

 

Put olive oil, salt, thyme, black pepper and nutmeg in a zip-top baggie.  Add sweet potato wedges.  Make sure wedges are coated thoroughly, then place on a cookie sheet that has been sprayed with cooking spray.

Bake at 450 for 25 minutes

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Easy Pea-sy Simple & Quick Pea Salad

Pea Salad-Yum!

It’s not easy finding veggie recipes that the kids will eat. Shoot, it’s not easy finding veggie recipes I will eat!

My step mother used to make this pea salad for us growing up and honestly it’s the only way she ever got a pea into my mouth. To this day, I’m still not a fan of peas, but I’ll eat them in this pea salad.

It’s simple, easy to throw together and of course very cheap to make.

You can make it fancier, of course. Throw some cheese cubes into it, use fresh peas instead of canned, make your own dressing, etc.

I like it simple though.

Here’s my recipe for simple and quick pea salad:

Easy Pea-sy Simple & Quick Pea Salad

Ingredients:

  • 1 can of sweet peas drained
  • 2 tablespoons mayo (I used light this time)
  • 2 boiled eggs, diced
  • salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

Combine all ingredients and chill in the refrigerator. Done.

See, I told you it was easy!

Serve this as a side and watch your kids gobble down their peas!

Enjoy!

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