Category: Side Dishes

Can you believe Five Minute Microwaved Mashed Potatoes? It’s true!  Micro for 5 minutes, add your favorite toppings or ingredients and you have mashed spuds.

Nothing like mashed potatoes in 5-8 minutes without the boiling water. One-pot clean up, easy and quick.

I like to add some butter, maybe a little chicken broth, you can do sour cream, chives, herbs, cheese, bacon, cream, or milk. Pretty much anything you want.

This is just the basic recipe but use your imagination.

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Five Minute Microwaved Mashed Potatoes

Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

5 mins

Total Time

15 mins

 

Everybody loves mashed potatoes and with this recipe, they're quick and easy!

Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Five Minute Microwaved Mashed Potatoes

Servings: 6

Calories: 365 kcal

Ingredients

• 8 red potatoes cut into bite size pieces
• 2 tablespoons water
• 1/2 cup liquid you can use cream, milk, broth, or a mix of both
• 1 tablespoon butter
• salt
• ground black pepper
• Options

Instructions

Potatoes

1. Prepare your spuds. Just wash good and cut in bite-size pieces. Place in a microwavable bowl, one that you will be serving in, and add the water and cover with plastic wrap.

Cook

1. Cook on high for 3-5 minutes, remove plastic wrap and stir. Put the saran wrap back on and cook another 2-3 minutes until the spuds are soft.

Dress

1. Now, the spuds are done. What do you with them is up to you. Butter is a must to me but you can go lighter if you want. Add some liquid the 1/2 cup -- either broth, cream, milk, and of course salt and pepper. Then use a fork or potato masher to smash them up.

2. Now they are done -- NOW WHAT? -- Sour Cream? Bacon? Cheese? Scallions? Herbs? Onion? Anything you want.

Finish

1. After adding all your flavors, you can return to the microwave covered in the plastic wrap for just 1 minute until heated and serve. But many times the potatoes are hot enough and any extras will heat up with any additional cooking time.

Enjoy Five Minute Microwaved Mashed Potatoes!

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Roasted Green Beans are a great alternative to regular green beans or green bean casserole for holidays! They reheat very nicely so they can be made in advance if necessary.

A great side dish but my friends also love these as a snack or hors d’oeuvre. No matter how many I make, it’s never enough!

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Roasted Green Beans

Fresh or canned green beans are coated with olive oil and seasoned with salt and pepper and then roasted until lighted browned! Simple but delicious.

Ingredients

• 2 lbs green beans
• 1 -2 tablespoon olive oil or just enough to lightly coat beans
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt or to taste, may substitute with Mrs. Dash if desired
• 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground pepper or to taste, omit if using Mrs. Dash

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
2. Wash, dry well, and trim green beans.
3. Put green beans on a jelly roll pan. Drizzle with olive oil.
4. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste (I like them salty so I use about 1 1/2 teaspoons of salt and about 8-10 grinds of the pepper mill). *Mrs. Dash may be substituted for salt and pepper as desired.
5. Use your hands to be sure all the beans are evenly coated and spread them out into 1 layer.
6. Roast for 20-25 minutes, turning after 15 minutes, until beans are fairly brown in spots and somewhat shriveled.

Recipe Notes

Serve hot or at room temperature.

Enjoy!

Tips And Tidbits About Roasted Green Beans

If you have other veggies on hand you can add them to this dish! Pepper slices (red, yellow or orange), sliced shallots or sliced carrots for even more flavor and lots of color!

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This is a fabulous recipe! Oven-Fried Sweet Potatoes are a healthful, nutritious, and superior-tasting alternative for holidays or family gatherings.

Great for a different way to prepare sweet potatoes. This is truly sweet potato heaven!

I love sweet potatoes and this recipe is my new favorite way to eat them!

The water-soaking is key in getting a ‘crispier’ wedge.

The roasting intensifies the sweet potato flavor so that it is the perfect foil for the black and cayenne pepper. The garlic adds another layer of flavor.

This recipe is super just like it is but it’s also a good recipe to experiment with.

Just a few additions and it makes the perfect accompaniment for all kinds of main dishes.

Think about adding a bit of rosemary and serve it with lamb, or maybe thyme, for roast beef. How about some sage with pork?

Try the recipe as is first and then just let your imagination be your guide!

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Oven Fried Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients

• 4 medium sweet potatoes
• 1 tablespoon canola oil
• 1/2 teaspoon coarse black pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 2 - 3 cloves garlic minced

Instructions

1. Cut the potatoes into thin wedges. Pile them in a bowl and cover them with cold water. Let rest 15 minutes.
2. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
3. Coat a baking sheet with vegetable spray. Set aside.
4. Drain the potatoes and dry them with paper towels. Press the potatoes with paper towels to remove all water.
5. Transfer the potatoes to a large bowl. Sprinkle the potatoes with oil, tossing the potatoes to disburse it.
6. Then sprinkle with pepper, salt, paprika and cayenne pepper.
7. Bake the potatoes at 375 degrees F for 20 minutes. Turn over the potatoes.
8. Sprinkle potatoes with garlic and continue cooking for another 15-20 minutes or until crisp and brown.
9. Serve immediately.

Enjoy!

Tips And Tidbits About Oven Fried Sweet Potatoes

You should be really attentive to cutting the fries the same size – If not you’ll have trouble with some burning before the others are cooked thoroughly.

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Oh, my word. This 5-Ingredient Corn Casserole is the most. Easy and tasty! Simple and cheap to make!. It’s also open to a lot of variation.

The most Heavenly and delicious thing ever! An unbelievably great side dish! This Creamy Corn Casserole is outstanding. Utterly. Dangerously addictive.

Ok. So you get the idea that I love this right?

It’s a cross between cornbread and spoon bread. It’s also kinda’ souffle-like.

It’s soft and moist inside with a lovely golden brown caramelized top. But it is a corn casserole not cornbread! It is a side dish and is meant to be eaten with a fork or spoon!

It can be made super fast with a muffin mix but I’ve included the ingredients for the cornbread part just in case you would like to make it from scratch!

Truly a tasty corn casserole.

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5-Ingredient Corn Casserole

Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

1 hr

Total Time

1 hr 10 mins

 

This Creamy Corn Casserole tastes like a cross between corn bread and a souffle. It tastes very corny and it's sweet yet savory. Can be made using corn bread mix OR from scratch!

Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: American

Servings: 8

Ingredients

• 1 8 ounce box Jiffy cornbread mix or scratch
• 1 15 ounce can whole kernel corn, drained
• 1 15 ounce can creamed corn (not drained)
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1/2 cup melted butter

Homemade Corn Muffin Mix

• 2/3 cup flour
• 1/2 cup yellow cornmeal Note 2
• 3 tbsp white sugar
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil

Instructions

Homemade Corn Muffin Mix

1. Whisk ingredients in a bowl until mostly lump free. Use in place of Jiffy corn muffin mix per recipe.

5-Ingredient Corn Casserole

1. Mix all ingredients and pour into (greased or sprayed with cooking spray) 8x8" casserole dish.
2. Cook uncovered for 55-60 minutes at 350 degrees.

Enjoy!

Tips & Tidbits For 5-Ingredient Corn Casserole

This recipe makes quite a bit, which is a good thing. You can slice leftovers when cold and fry it up and serve with butter and syrup-like traditional polenta! Double duty, double delicious!

You can also kick it up a notch by adding some shredded cheese and onion. It goes great as a side dish for almost anything but I especially like it with a meatloaf dinner.

It’s also good to make this as a double batch and use a 9×13 casserole dish and take to family pot lucks.

You can also make it ahead. The dish reheats great in the microwave! I’ve made it a day before and couldn’t tell the difference.

It also freezes great! I wasn’t sure it would hold up but it reheats really well after freezing. Good for leftovers!

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My favorite food on the holiday menu is cranberry sauce, and I kept trying to find the perfect blend. I put together this recipe a long time ago and have used it ever since.

It’s a keeper! Fun to make, and the flavors are perfectly aligned. The nuts and ginger make it special. No one flavor overwhelms another.

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Tangy Cranberry Relish

Ingredients

1 (12 ounce) package cranberries
1 1⁄2 cups orange juice
3⁄4 cup sugar
1⁄2 cup walnuts
1 grated orange, rind of
1⁄4 teaspoon ground ginger

Directions

Bring orange juice to a boil. Add washed cranberries and sugar. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 10-15 minutes . Remove from heat.

Mash berries with a potato masher. Stir in remaining ingredients.

Chill for several hours and serve.

Enjoy!

Recipe based on one by Sherri Dodsworth
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Talk about Comfort food!!! These Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes are SO good! They are more evidence that bacon makes everything better!

It’s the sauce that really kicks this recipe up a notch. Really easy to make. If you can make a roux you can make really creamy scalloped potatoes!

The sauce is fantastic, but the bacon really adds so much to these also!

I haven’t made every scalloped potato recipe in the world but for my money, this is the absolute best-scalloped potato recipe in existence!

Are you looking for the perfect side dish? With cheese, potatoes, bacon, and onion in this recipe… how can you go wrong?

You really need to check out this Quick And Easy Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes Recipe With Bacon – a wonderful side dish!

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Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes

Prep Time

25 mins

Cook Time

1 hr

Total Time

1 hr 25 mins

 

I love scalloped potatoes and this is one of the better recipes I've tried.

Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes

Servings: 4

Calories: 355 kcal

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/4 cup flour
• 2 cups milk
• 8 ounces shredded cheddar cheese
• 4 ounces brie cheese rind removed
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 5 large potatoes scrubbed and thinly sliced
• 2 small onions thinly sliced
• 4 slices bacon cooked till crisp crumbled

Instructions

1. Preheat oven 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

2. Melt butter and blend in flour; add milk cooking until slightly thickened (can be done in Microwave).

3. Add shredded cheese and brie until melted.

4. Butter pan and layer 1/2 the potatoes, onions, bacon bits, and sauce then add the next layer. (You can do more layers if you want. End with sauce.).

5. Bake for 1 hour until tender.

Enjoy!

Tips and Tidbits About These Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes

Choose the right potato! I like to use a buttery, waxy potato like Yukon Golds. I have used all types of potatoes with good success but the Yukon Golds release just the right amount of starch that is the essence of a creamy sauce.

They will also hold their shape for great texture.

Like I said other potatoes will work but sometimes they will leak to much starch and yield less than stellar results!

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