A Crunchy Vegetable Salad With a Sweet and Tangy Tarragon Dressing Garbage Salad is a simple mix of green bell peppers, sweet onion, tomatoes, and cucumber tossed in a sweet and tangy red wine vinegar dressing. Tarragon gives it a little licorice-like flavor that makes this more interesting than your everyday cucumber and tomato salad. This is the kind of salad you make ahead, tuck into the refrigerator, and let hang out for a few hours while you get the rest of dinner together. The vegetables release some of their juices, everything mingles with the dressing, and you end up…
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Continue ReadingA Creamy, Sweet and Tangy Fast-Food Favorite This Copycat Long John Silver’s Coleslaw has finely chopped cabbage, carrots and onion tossed in a creamy buttermilk dressing. It has that sweet and tangy flavor and signature finely chopped texture people remember from the restaurant. My Long John Silver’s Love Story Years…
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Crispy Salted Skins, Fluffy Centers, and a Sweet and Savory Compound Butter These Ultimate Baked Sweet Potatoes with Savory Maple Butter are a simple side dish that feels special enough for Thanksgiving and Christmas but is easy enough to serve with a weeknight dinner. The sweet potatoes are baked whole…
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A Sweet and Savory Hawaiian Bread Stuffing Made Especially for Holiday Ham This Stuffing for Ham is a rich, sweet and savory holiday side dish made with soft Hawaiian bread, smoky bacon, caramelized onions, celery and a savory ham broth. Eggs and a little heavy cream give it an almost…
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Creamy Homemade Mac and Cheese Made With Tiny Ditalini Pasta This Mini Mac and Cheese is one of those recipes that is just plain fun to eat. Instead of traditional elbow macaroni, I make it with ditalini pasta, those tiny little pasta tubes you often see floating around in soup.…
