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Olive Garden Roasted Butternut Squash

Stephanie — Mon, 06 May 2013 00:58:25 +0000

To my surprise the Olive Garden Roasted Butternut Squash was a dish you could order along with your meal. I always think of pasta when I think of the Olive Garden. Imagine my surprise when they were serving up roasted butternut squash. They make roast theirs with a sweet wine sauce, and it is wonderful. I am going to show you how to make this side dish just like they do.

Olive Garden Roasted Butternut Squash

Yes, the Olive Garden serves up many wonderful dishes, their salad, their Alfredo sauce, their famous soups. Recently when I was dining at the Olive Garden you could get roasted butternut squash as a side dish. You can make this at home now, it is very easy to make. If you find it difficult to cut butternut squash I find that both Costco and Trader Joes sells butternut squash already cut up and ready to use. I recommend Riesling wine for this recipe, but honestly any sweet wine will do. I wouldn’t use an expensive white wine in this recipe, personally I would choose something under ten dollars that is drinkable.

You may want to serve this dish with a roast or a roasted chicken. I love making the oven do double duty when I am roasting meat. This way I have less to clean up later. You can enjoy this butternut squash roasted just like the Olive Garden tonight.

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Luby’s Fried Cabbage

Stephanie — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:04:29 +0000

Luby’s makes some of the best cabbage, their fried cabbage is good, and easy to make. Why is this cabbage so good? It is perfectly cooked with bacon, and just the right amount of seasonings.

So often I think cabbage is the forgotten vegetable. It is inexpensive, and can be bitter if not cooked right. It isn’t hard to cook cabbage. I want you show you how you can prepare cooked cabbage that people will ask you for the recipe. Luby’s is known for their great tasting side dishes, and this one is no exception. So the next time there is a big sale on cabbage be sure to pick up a few extra heads of cabbage and enjoy this dish.

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Greek Style Roasted Potatoes

Stephanie — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 12:41:30 +0000

Greek Style Roasted Potatoes are a wonderful way to make potatoes. Growing up dinner was always a meat, two vegetables, and a starch. Often that starch was potatoes. These potatoes are simply marinated with lemon juice, garlic, and olive oil and then baked in the oven.

In Houston there is a wonderful restaurant called Nikkos Nikkos, they serve up some of the best Greek food in Houston. You always have the choice between their french fries, which are homemade, or you can have their greek style roasted potatoes. It is hard to turn down fries that haven’t seen a freezer, but I can do it every time with these incredibly roasted potatoes.
These potatoes are so easy to make, and if you have a roast in the oven, this is the perfect time to make these. These can come out wonderfully crisp, and are packed with a lemon and garlic flavor that is a nice change for roasted potatoes.

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Bacon and Cheese Crock-pot Potatoes

Stephanie — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:26:21 +0000

Bacon and cheese crock-pot potatoes is a wonderful side dish that you can make in your crock-pot. I got the inspiration for this recipe from Moms with Crock Pots website.

I don’t know why, but I have been been on a big kick of using crock-pots lately. It must be the weather cooling off, this is the first weekend, we have been below 80 in Houston since May. I know for folks up north, that is nothing, but for those who live in the south, this is when you know the cooler weather is coming. I never thought you could make a side dish of potatoes in a crock-pot, and when I saw a pin on pinterest, I knew I had to make this recipe.
Potatoes, cheese, bacon, and onions are a classic taste. What I like about this recipe is that it is very easy to make. I reduced the cooking time from 10 hours on low to 4-5 hours on high. I also suggest that you put on half of the cheese during the cooking, and then once the potatoes are done, turn off the heat add the remaining cheese and top with green onions.

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Potato Gnocchi 1 – 2 – 3

Stephanie — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:36:58 +0000

Potato Gnocchi can be hard to find in some grocery stores, but never fear you can make your own homemade potato gnocchi. It is very inexpensive to make, and you can feed a very large family on a big pot of potato gnocchi. Have you ever had left over cooked potatoes? This is a great way use those potatoes up and still make a filling and did I say inexpensive meal?

The first time I had ever made potato gnocchi was at a cooking class when I was working at Whirlpool. Whirlpool in Benton Harbor, has this magnificent kitchen that they have cooking classes in. Potato Gnocchi was one of the dishes that we made there. While it is a little messy, you are going to find that this is an easy and versatile pasta. You can use this gnocchi in a recipe, or you can use any sauce that you like. I love a dish like this because it can really help you extend left over sauces. I am going to finish this gnocchi up with a little butter and Parmesan, but you could use some left over pasta sauce, or make up some Alfredo sauce and have a wonderful dish.

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