easy Green Pea Salad with bacon
Creamy, crunchy Pea Salad that is bursting with fresh flavor. Crazy easy to make!
Sides
Simple recipes for your favorite side dishes and maybe a few new favorites!
Heavenly Strawberry Cheesecake Salad
This amazing “salad” (because in the Midwest everything is a salad) features fresh strawberries, bananas, mini marshmallows, velvety whipping cream, tangy Greek yogurt, and a
Quick & easy pickled veggies
Looking for a delicious way to preserve your extra fresh veggies? Try out these quick and easy pickled veggie recipes that are sure to satisfy
Minnesota Creamy Grape salad
An authentic recipe for Grapes Devonshire, also called Creamy Grape Salad. Using cream cheese instead of clotted cream, and yogurt instead of sour cream it
Apple snickers salad
This Snickers Salad is the way we make it in MN! This Apple Salad is quick and easy to make, and will be the star
Crockpot Creamed Corn
Granny Alice and CrockPot Creamed corn. Don’t miss this wonderful story and recipe from Alice Seuffert from Dining With Alice (another MN girl!). You will
Instant Pot Cilantro lime Rice
Do you love Chipoltlé’s cilantro lime rice? Me too! This is an easy recipe to recreate that yummy flavorful rice using simple ingredients and the
A Simple Cucumber Kimchi Recipe
Cucumber Kimchi is an easy do-it-yourself kimchi recipe! If you have ever wanted to make your own kimchi, here is a simple recipe to get
5 Ingredient Ham Pasta Salad
With only 5 ingredients, this Ham Pasta Salad couldn’t be easier, faster, and tastier. Yummy noodles with a creamy dressing, salty ham bits, cheese, and
the BEST Deviled Egg Salad
Take the yumminess of deviled eggs and turn it into a salad that is easy to serve, transport, and eat. The delicious tangy flavor, creaminess,
the BEST Cauliflower Potato Salad (low-carb, Paleo)
We love this great twist on traditional potato salad. Now we can have all the health of cauliflower and all the flavor of our
Funeral Potatoes Recipe (the potatoes with the crushed cornflakes on top)
Creamy and cheesy potatoes are topped with buttery corn flakes and baked until they are warm and bubbling. A perfect recipe for parties, holidays, family
20 minute Alfredo Sauce
A creamy, cheesy alfredo sauce perfect served up over your favorite pasta .
easy Marinated Tomato Salad (great for garden produce!)
Easy, fresh, full of flavor, and the perfect use for all of that beautiful summer produce…this marinated tomato salad whips up in a quick hurry
Cucumber Onion Salad
The classic Cucumber Onion salad couldn’t be easier or tastier. Adding the optional fresh fennel adds a delicious and bright twist!
Red Onion Watermelon salad
This watermelon salad is an old-school church potluck classic. Refreshing and flavorful, you’ll love that this comes together with 5 easy ingredient!
Minnesota Wild Rice Dressing
We call this wild rice “stuffing” in my house. Really, it’s a classic wild rice casserole made in the traditional Minnesota way complete with pork
Perfect Mashed Cauliflower
This mashed cauliflower recipe makes the most perfect, creamy, flavorful batch of mashed cauliflower you’ll ever make. All in one pot, this recipe will be
the BEST Cranberry Sauce
Until I was an adult I thought cranberry sauce came shaped like a tin can and had ridges in it. I most likely had homemade
CrockPot Baked Beans (with bacon)
Everyone has their favorite recipe for baked beans…this is mine. Sweet and savory beans with bacon and a bit of herb to create the yummiest,
Homemade Egg Fried Rice (with tips and tricks to get it right every time!)
If you need a fast, easy meal idea that your family will cheer for with wild abandon you need to learn how to make fried
the BEST Deviled Egg Potato Salad with Bacon
This deviled egg potato salad recipe has all the tangy, creamy flavors of deviled eggs in a classic potato salad. Spicy, creamy, tangy, and even
Whiskey Brown Sugar Glazed Carrots
Baby carrots in a sweet brown sugar and whiskey glaze are the BEST side dish. Super easy to make and the bourbon adds a subtle
Swedish Toast Skagen (Shrimp Toast)
I’m whipping up some comfort food in the form of toast. Not just any toast… Swedish Skagen Toast. An easy and traditional Swedish appetizer.
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