Ever-popular sweet potatoes team up with an underrated root vegetable in this silky mash: peppery rutabaga. Garlic and sage cooked in butter, plus a generous dose of cream, make the side dish sing. Serve...
Serve this sweet sauce with breakfast breads or on top of oatmeal. If you prefer a chunkier sauce, start with slightly smaller pieces of pear, and don't use a food processor.
Often the most favorite holiday side dishes are the simplest. This recipe combines roasted sweet potatoes with butter and maple syrup in the food processor with very little effort.
Unlike store-bought varieties, these sprinkles taste like sugar and vanilla, not wax. The extras will keep in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a month. Use them to decorate our Confetti...
The secret to mushrooms that are beautifully browned and not watery is taking a hands-off approach. Stirring them as they caramelize releases the mushrooms' liquid and causes them to steam, so leaving...
Busy times call for easy desserts that have a sweet simplicity, like these flaky apple-cinnamon pastries. For our streamlined strudel, we folded convenient store-bought puff pastry around a four-ingredient...
Flageolet, pale-green kidney beans, are prevalent in French cooking. Their delicate flavor is well suited for simple preparations and is particularly good with lamb. We served them with Mint and Pistachio...
This quick sauce does an excellent job of tying the components of this pork chop dinner together. It's also excellent over mixed greens, or tossed with cold noodles.
This sauce comes out bright with a bite, thanks to sweet steamed beets and fiery fresh horseradish root. Dab it on to favorites like corned beef, roasted salmon, or even these cheesy scalloped potatoes....
Peanuts are the star of this hearty plant-based stew that's inspired by the cuisine of West Africa. Featuring superfoods like sweet potatoes, collard greens, and millet, it uses the humble peanut two different...
Cumin, coriander, and cayenne pepper complement sweet roasted acorn squash in this easy side dish. Try it with Roasted Pork with Onions and Citrus or Parmesan risotto.
Roast a combination of carrots and potatoes for a simple holiday side dish. The high heat concentrates the sweetness of the carrots and makes the potatoes crisp on the outside and creamy on the inside....
Specially made for Hanukkah, latkes are potato pancakes that are fried in oil in recognition of the ancient lamps that held only enough oil for one day but miraculously burned for eight. Adding carrots,...
A bright side dish featuring spring seasonal produce like carrots and snap peas will perk up any Easter dinner table or buffet. The fact that it can serve a crowd while taking only 30 minutes from start...
Refrigerate the dressing base in an airtight container, up to 2 weeks, before adding mix-ins. For a lower-fat version, replace the sour cream with low-fat plain Greek yogurt.
Pickling gives crisp, mellow vegetables spunky personality. These Kirby cucumbers -- a small, unwaxed type that's perfect for pickles -- are seasoned with dill and garlic. Salting the cucumbers helps draw...
This one-pan dinner brings together chickpeas, marinara sauce, and mozzarella in a single skillet, then tops it off with wedges of roasted broccoli florets. A crunchy Parmesan-and-panko blend is the final...
This side dish tastes just as good at room temperature as it does hot from the stove, so there's no need to worry if it's ready before the rest of the meal.
Weeknight comfort foods like this one-pan quick chili are a great entryway into eating a more plant-based diet. Switching from a pot to a skillet slashed the cooking time in half for this recipe, and the...
Leaves ofSwiss chard, blancheduntil pliable and vibrant,make wrappers for parcels of a brown-rice filling enriched with ricotta;spoonfuls offresh tomato sauce givethe dish a garlicky nip.