Salads and Sides

Here you’ll find several types of salads, from easy salad recipes to dinner salad recipes, plus a variety of side dishes.

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La Scala Chopped Salad with Marinated Chickpeas

Inspired by the famous La Scala chopped salad, this Italian salad recipe is packed with awesome ingredients and loaded with amazing crunchy textures and flavors thanks to marinated chickpeas, salami, artichoke hearts, sun-dried tomatoes, Asiago cheese, and a zesty red wine dressing. Salad might run through my veins like sugar […]

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Burrata Salad with Pear and Prosciutto

This burrata salad with pears and prosciutto hits every note: Sweet, savory, tangy, crunchy, and smooth to make a salad that’s simple but elegant and impossibly delicious. Something about a colorful salad—like my herby Roasted Beet and Ricotta Salad or bright Citrus Fennel and Avocado Salad—adds a whole extra level of fresh elegance […]

The BEST Stuffing Recipe

The BEST Stuffing Recipe

This traditional stuffing recipe is made from scratch and is made with bread cubes, butter, onion, celery, and savory aromatics. It’s perfect for a Thanksgiving feast or as a stuffing recipe for chicken or pork and really is the best, easy stuffing recipe. If I were to stand at a […]

How to Make THE BEST Mashed Potatoes

How to Make THE BEST Mashed Potatoes

This is how to make THE BEST easy mashed potatoes recipe with tips like how long to boil the potatoes for creamy mashed potatoes that are fluffy, buttery, and rich. One of my favorite food memories is standing next to my grandma while she whipped mashed potatoes in the kitchen […]

How to Make a GREAT Taco Salad

How to Make a GREAT Taco Salad

This easy taco salad with taco-seasoned ground beef, beans, cheddar cheese, and all the taco fixings makes a favorite easy dinner any night of the week. If there’s one Mexican meal I might love even more than my mother-in-law’s recipe for ground beef tacos that taste just like Taco Bell tacos, […]

Caesar Salad with Garlic Croutons

Caesar Salad with Garlic Croutons

This Caesar salad recipe with garlic croutons and a creamy homemade Caesar dressing with or without anchovies) makes an easy main meal or favorite side salad for a crowd. Here on the blog, I’m not shy about my love of the Caesar salad. I made sure to share my classic Caesar […]