What do you do when someone gives you a poke full of peppers?
You figure out how to make healthy jalapeno poppers, that’s what.
Category Archives: sides
Smothered Okra and Tomatoes
This is Maw Maw Gertie’s smothered okra and tomatoes. It’s a country Cajun dish that I loved so much as a child. Continue reading Smothered Okra and Tomatoes
Margherita Eggplant Stacks
I just love basil, tomato and cheese on anything: bread, mushrooms, eggs, zucchini and even eggplants. These little snacks are so delicious and so easy and so quick to make that I’ve made them at least a half a dozen times in the last few months. For a family that doesn’t care much for eggplants, they sure eat these up.
Cauliflower Broccoli Salad with Feta, Medjool Dates, and Pecans
This is my new favorite salad. The medjool dates are so sweet, the pecans have the crunch, and the feta and pecans together give it just enough salt. It’s healthy and delicious! My plan was to eat this for my lunch for a few days because I still am trying to take off a few pounds for Italy, but it didn’t last past the first day. James and Mom finished off the bowl before I could take any to work. I had to eat take out from Piggly Wiggly’s deli instead. That meant I had to have some of their fried okra and home cut french fries, too. Oh well, I had to add a little more cardio and didn’t lose any weight this week, but at least I didn’t gain any either.
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Broccoli Red Quinoa Salad with Corn and Black Beans
This scrumptious little salad was my lunch for three days in a row this week. I made a huge bowl and stored it in the refrigerator. I scooped some out each morning to take to work. The first day it was great, the second day it was even better because the dressing had soaked into the veggies, and on the third day it was still good but skimpy on the broccoli. I think I picked most of it out trying to put more broccoli into my first two servings. And I lost 2 lbs this week!
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Grilled Portobella with Basil, Tomatoes, and Goat Cheese
Here they are Mitch! Mitch is a really good friend of mine from Louisiana, and he loves these mushrooms. It was his request that reminded me to post them to my blog; however, I would have eventually remembered to share them because they are mouth-watering delicious!
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Sweet Pea, Egg Salad
When I was a little girl, my mom loved to make this salad. She served it often with brown gravy and smothered vegetables. This was always her contribution for Sunday dinners at Grandma’s, family reunions or church gatherings. I remember everyone asking for her recipe, and she modestly saying, “Oh, it’s just too easy”. And it is, but the simplicity of her recipe is genius: only three ingredients gives this salad a remarkable flavor.
Honey Dijon Potato Salad
My earliest memories of Easter Sunday are of my Paw Paw Ed preparing the barbeque on a handmade barrel-type pit in South Louisiana. The day was filled with the smell of hickory smoke, hard boiled eggs, and wild Easter Lilies. The Cajun tradition of egg pocking was in full force with Paw Paw winning most of the pocks with his Banty hen eggs, supposedly the hardest shells of all the hens.