Side Dishes

I recently cooked for a Youth Fundraiser for our church, Midvale Community Lutheran Church, and the theme was camp life at Camp KilikiWakaWikoo.  It was a fun, challenging, and rewarding event, [...]

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week last week, I volunteered to prepare a pasta salad for the wonderful teachers and awesome staff at Thoreau, my daughter’s elementary school.  Originally [...]

Like salt, pepper was once used as currency.  Instead of saying pass the salt and pepper, you could have said pass the buck.  It was certainly nothing to sneeze at.  Finding pepper was the [...]

I never realized how much I liked the tradition of Friday Fish Fries in Wisconsin until I moved to Colorado.  I began to crave them, mostly because I couldn’t find one in Colorado (not [...]

Corned Beef with Demiglace Stout Sauce Sweet Potato and Red Cabbage Colcannon I can almost taste this picture. Even over a month later the aroma, texture and flavor memories of this St.Patrick’s [...]