Green Bean Casserole
Fresh green beans blanched bright, folded into a mushroom cream sauce built in one skillet, and baked under a thick crown of crispy fried onions.
- Total time
- 1 hr 10 min
- Yield
- Serves 8
Side Dish
Scalloped Potatoes
Thin Yukon Gold slices simmered in garlic cream before they go in the dish, so they bake tender all the way through under a browned Gruyère and cheddar top.
- Total time
- 1 hr 50 min
- Yield
- Serves 8
Mexican Rice
Restaurant-style Mexican rice with separate, fluffy grains: long-grain rice rinsed, toasted golden in oil, then simmered in a blended tomato, onion and garlic broth and left covered to steam.
- Total time
- 45 min
- Yield
- Serves 6
Homemade Tater Tots
Crisp, fluffy homemade tater tots: russets parboiled whole, grated, squeezed dry and seasoned, shaped into small logs, chilled, then fried golden. They freeze well for later.
- Total time
- 2 hr
- Yield
- About 50 tots, serves 6
Fried Green Tomatoes
Southern fried green tomatoes: firm, tart slices salted to draw out water, dredged in seasoned flour, buttermilk and a cornmeal crust, and pan-fried golden. Served with a quick remoulade.
- Total time
- 45 min
- Yield
- Serves 4–6
Slow Cooker Baby Potatoes with Garlic and Herbs
Four hours unattended, then five minutes under the broiler for the crust a slow cooker cannot give you.
- Total time
- 4 hr 15 min
- Yield
- Serves 8
Roasted Cabbage Steaks with Yogurt Sauce
Thick wedges roasted until the edges char and the core turns sweet, under a cold garlic yogurt.
- Total time
- 45 min
- Yield
- Serves 4
Grilled Potatoes with Garlic and Herbs
Parboiled first so the grill only has to char them. Twelve minutes over the coals, not forty.
- Total time
- 40 min
- Yield
- Serves 6
Roasted Sweet Potato Bites
Caramelized at the edges, soft inside. High heat, a hot tray, and enough space between the cubes.
- Total time
- 40 min
- Yield
- Serves 6
German Potato Pancakes
Kartoffelpuffer: lacy, deep-golden, crisp to the edge. The trick is wringing the potatoes dry and reclaiming the starch.
- Total time
- 45 min
- Yield
- Makes 12 pancakes
Autumn Apple Pasta Salad
Crisp diced apple, toasted pecans and cold pasta in a tangy Greek yogurt dressing that keeps the fruit pale and the noodles seasoned all the way through.
- Total time
- 1 hr
- Yield
- Serves 6 as a side
Cornmeal Onion Patties
A thick buttermilk cornmeal batter packed with finely chopped onion, shallow-fried crisp at the edges and tender through the middle.
- Total time
- 27 min
- Yield
- Makes 8 patties
Cranberry Pecan Slaw
Salted, squeezed cabbage in a tangy maple dressing with dried cranberries and toasted pecans — crisp the next day, not soupy.
- Total time
- 50 min
- Yield
- Serves 6