Category: Side Dishes
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Colcannon (Irish recipe for St. Patrick’s Day)
An instructional video is at the bottom of this recipe. Colcannon is an Irish classic. They’ve been eating it for centuries. Normally it’s a mixture of mashed potatoes and kale that would commonly be eaten with pork. But in my version, the kale gets replaced with red cabbage, and I mix the pork right in. …
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Transforming Thanksgiving Leftovers
So it’s the day after Thanksgiving and your fridge is exploding with a mangled turkey carcass, half a pan of stuffing, gobs of gelatinous cranberry sauce…and you’ve got no idea what to do, right? Don’t microwave another paper plate filled with stale leftovers. Transform the leftovers into something different and better! TURKEY MEAT Tamales Coming…
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MasterChef Green Chili Cornbread
This recipe is adapted from my grandmother’s cast iron skillet cornbread, which is made in true Texas style…course and savory, not cakey and sweet. I love the flavors of roasted corn and green chilis and onion and cheese in my cornbread, so I overloaded this recipe with good stuff. I made this on MasterChef, and…
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Mashed Root Veggies
Mashed potatoes are tasty, but are almost entirely empty carbs. I’ve developed this PHENOMENAL recipe for mashed root veggies that tastes WAY better than mashed potatoes, and it’s healthier for you, too. 1 large rutabaga or 2-3 small turnips 1 bag parsnips (these look like white carrots) 3 sweet potatoes 2 potatoes 1 whole bulb…
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Meemaw’s Cornbread Dressing
I know it may be traditional to “stuff” the Thanksgiving turkey, but a food scientist will tell you that it can be dangerous to do this. Stuffing soaks up uncooked turkey juices, and unless you get the stuffing to the right temperature (165F), you risk a harmful buildup of bacteria. (And you’re never gonna get…
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Meemaw’s Skillet Buttermilk Cornbread
My maternal grandmother Meemaw and her mother, Granny Proctor, and her mother, Granny Williams, all used cast-iron skillets to cook the majority of their meals, and they did it right on the top of a wood-fired cast-iron stove. Mom still makes cornbread in the cast-iron skillets she inherited from Meemaw, who got them from Granny…