Recipes: Side Dishes

Asian Marinade
This marinade works well with any grilling items...

Asian Noodles, simply prepared
This is a wonderful dish if you're in a hurry, hungry, and want to have something that's a combination of tasty and light, and filling ...

Braised Carrots
This is a wonderful addition to many types of meals, hot or cold, any season...

Bread/Wild Rice Stuffing
This is a very important part of our Thanksgiving menu, really the main dish to which all else is somewhat subservient...

Broccoli Salad
This is an indispensable dish in our home...

Butternut Squash
This is a very simple dish, and one we very much enjoy as part of our traditional Thanksgiving feast...

Cheese Toasts
My husband's dad introduced me to this new way of grilling cheese on bread...

Cole Slaw
This is a staple side dish in our home...

Cranberry Sauce
When I found out how simple it is to make cranberry sauce, there seemed never again to be a reason to purchase it in a can...

Creamed Onions
This is one of our Thanksgiving staples...

Gravy
Who can do without gravy at Thanksgiving? We couldn't...

It's Not Chicken Salad
For a while after becoming a vegetarian, I missed chicken salad...

Mashed Potatoes
Though this is a simple recipe, I include it because there is a slightly different way we prepare it and I think the difference makes for a tastier result...

Pesto
Pesto literally means "paste" in Italian...

Rice Pilaf
I use different types of rice for this dish, sometimes medium grain white, sometimes white Basmati, sometimes brown Basmati...

Savory Thanksgiving Vegetables
This dish serves as our main vegetable dish on Thanksgiving...

Summer Squash Relish
This savory side dish is an excellent complement to grilled, roasted, or broiled portabella mushrooms...

Tortellini Salad
This is a complete salad...

Vegetable Melange with Marjoram
This recipe came about as a result of surveying the refrigerator for ingredients in an effort to come up with something tasty for supper...

Yams braised in Orange Sauce
This is perhaps our most traditional Thanksgiving recipe...