The Side Dish Bible: Perfect Recipes for Vegetables, Grains, and Beans

From the Publisher: Scene-Stealing Sides!

Over 1,000 perfect recipes for tonight and every night - The Side Dish Bible is a roadmap for home cooks looking to round out and enhance any meal, for any occasion, with every type of side dish imaginable from salads and vegetables to rice, grain, and pasta dishes. Don't worry, breads are included as well.

Whether aiming for simple or spectacular, this is the only side dish resource you will ever need. Make-ahead, fast, and vegan recipes are tagged for easy reference. "Take It Up A Notch" Recipe Boxes accompany recipes with sauces, flavored salts, compound butters, and toppings that will enhance and transform many of the simpler dishes. Conversion charts alongside reference pages for vegetables, rice, grains, and beans ensure you always have the perfect proportions and cook times.

Sauteed Radishes Show-Stopping Sides for Every Occasion Who hasn't struggled over figuring out what side dishes to make, often resorting to making the same ones over and over again? With chapters like, Basics You Can Count On, Potatoes Every Way, Use Your Slow Cooker or Pressure Cooker, Holiday Classics, and Dinner Party Winners, you can find what you're looking for, even if you don't know what that is.

Don't Keep Your Side Dishes on the Sidelines

Weeknight Inspiration? Skillet-Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Pomegranate and Pistachios These 10-minute Brussels Sprouts are deeply browned on the cut sides while still bright green on the uncut sides and crisp-tender within. It's a basic you can count on!

Having Company? Eggplant Pecorino This spin on "eggplant parm" upends the concept of the traditional casserole by showcasing (rather than masking) the eggplant as savory, faintly biter, buttery, and satisfying.

Potatoes Your Thing? Roasted Spiralized Sweet Potatoes with Walnuts and Feta Spiralized sweet potatoes make a beautiful yet simple side dish. This fun take on potatoes takes less than 30 minutes and is sure to be a crowd-pleaser.

Got Bread? Almost No-Knead Bread Artisan-style bakery loaves take professional skills to make, right? Wrong. Not only is it possible to make a rustic load for your table, it's easy, too, with the no-knead method.

MAKE-AHEAD Classic Bread Stuffing with Sage and Thyme Take your holiday table up a notch this season while reducing the stress of cooking! Savory, rustic, and rich bread stuffing is a staple of any holiday spread. This herby stuffing is moist throughout with a crispy, crunchy top. Make it a day in advance and bake the day-of to save time on the big day!

FAST Arugula Salad with Figs, Prosciutto, Walnuts, and Parmesan Every dinner party host needs a salad that's simple to make but impressive and this one delivers in spades. Figs and prosciutto, a classic duo, combine perfectly with peppery arugula for a salad that explodes with flavor in each bite: sweet, salty, and spicy.

VEGAN Grilled Tomatoes Get fired up with these grilled tomatoes! Grilling enhances tomatoes with smoky char while preserving their summer taste. Even better, you can make these ahead of time or double the recipe if your gearing up to feed a crowd!

THE TRIFECTA: MAKE-AHEAD, FAST, & VEGAN Curried Rice Salad You can't go wrong with this perfect rice salad. Fresh lime juice delivers fruity, tart notes, while raisins plumped in a lime juice-sugar mixture add chewy sweetness.

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