Potato Salad

I’m not big on the traditional mayo smothered Potato Salad. I just don’t like mayo that much! And our friends who we’ve spent the last four July 4th Holidays with, recently became vegan so Mayo drenched Potato Salad wasn’t an option anyway. With a little hunting I found a lot of recipes that were a [...]

How to Grill Perfect Onions

I’ve tried grilling onions before and didn’t have much luck until I tried this method alongside a bunch of veggies the other night so I had to share… maybe I’m late to the game and this is how other people already do it, but I’ve never seen it done this way so I figured I’d [...]

Scalloped Potatoes

We celebrated our second wedding anniversary yesterday and decided we’d cook dinner rather than going out to dinner. I knew we wanted to grill steaks (hubby’s favorite), but then I left the sides up to hubby. He decided he wanted scalloped potatoes. I was a little surprised since the last time I attempted them, over [...]

Garlic Fries

Today I went to go get my potatoes and they were all growing roots already, and not just little ones which I normally just cut off but big ones (enough that I just didn’t want to eat them)! I just bought them 5 days ago, which led me to do a little online research. I [...]

Fried Corn

This is my first submission for for Weekend Herb Blogging which is hosted by The Cooking Diva this week. I’m not actually sure why this is called “Fried Corn” cause there really isn’t anything fried about it although its certainly not necessarily the healthiest way to eat corn. I remember watching my Grandmother make [...]

Easy Baked Beans

I loove baked beans. I never really had them growing up (except the kind that comes straight from a can) and had them for the first time a couple years ago at a friend’s house on the fourth of July. I found this recipe on allrecipes and I was hesitant to use it since it [...]