Side-dish/19 recipes

A quick and easy one pan meal is perfect for a weekday supper when you don't have time to cook up a storm.

This homemade pizza is simply delicious. Spread some pizza sauce over pizza dough, top with freshly sliced mushrooms, bell peppers, sun-dried tomatoes, olives and onions, and sprinkle some mozzarella cheese. Within about 25 minutes, this freshly homemade pizza is ready to serve.

This scrumptious dish made of cracked wheat and tomatoes can be served by itself or with any type of meat.

From across Northern Italy there are many variations. A rich broth, juicy Italian tomatoes and rich herb simmered for a long time. I used a mixture of sliced mushrooms from my local supermarket and dried lobster, oyster and shitake mushrooms. Then used the mushroom juice in place of chicken broth. Outstanding reduction of rich comfort flavors.

This quick and easy caesar salad is surprisingly refreshing and delicious. There is no reason to buy store-bought dressing, when you can make your own fresh dressing at home within a few minutes, and it tastes just delicious!

An excellent finger-lickin'-chicken to dip into your favorite sauce or dressing

Light and tasty. Serve the soup with a few slices of garlic bread, delicious.

Poblano peppers stuffed with Mexican crock-pot chicken, sauteed onion, rice, and salsa topped with melted cheese.

Wednesday's Chili recipe

A delicious and nutritious one-pot meal is ideal for a busy week-day dinner.

These meatballs were very easy to make, and they had great flavor. We added the meatballs to the spaghetti sauce, and our meal was filling and delicious.

These hearty garden wraps are made within 20 minutes, they are stuffed with deliciously sauteed garden-fresh veggies and oozy-melting cheese. Quick, easy and tasty!

Blue pumpkin!? We got one from our local farm and came up with this recipe to give a try cooking with it. Regular pie pumpkin can be used but if you find yourself with a blue pumpkin here's a good way to use it.

The tomato sauce worked deliciously well with the shrimp, olives and feta cheese. Used spaghetti instead of fettuccine, green olives stuffed with pimento instead of black olives. It was a very delightful dish, indeed.

This simple and easy-to-follow crockpot recipe will help you make this scrumptious appetizer that tastes wonderful with rice or noodles.

Soup