North american side dishes recipes with 600 or more calories costing less than $1.5 per serving

Baked Beans

I found this recipe in an old recipe book from the 1940's when I was a young bride in the early 1970's. At the time, I thought, "wow this is…

Italian Mac & Cheese

My BFF, Sunny, was coming for dinner with her husband and I was making pork tenderloin with blueberry balsamic sauce, but what to serve as a side…

Easy Black Beans and Rice!!!

This is a great side dish. With Love, Catherine xo

Parmesan Polenta with Cranberries and Bacon

I got this recipe from Giada's Food Network show. She recommends it for breakfast, but it's so good I would eat…

Sweet Potato Souffle - Nuwave - Flavorwave

Here another comfort food recipe for your Nuwave/Flavorwave ovens.

Twice Baked Potatoes with Bacon and Cheese

Learned this from my western friends. This is how they showed me; just the easiest way to do it and it tasted…

Sweet Potato Casserole

AMAZING dish for Thanksgiving -or just fall. Not your boring sweet potato casserole -not too sweet, and not too plain.

Nan's Dumplings

This is my grandmother's (Margaret Rudis) recipe.

Special Burger Sauce

Sweet Green Bean Bundles

Potato salad

I have tried lots of recipes online for potato salad and none came close to really tasting good to me. This one I kind of made up from four…

Green Bean Bundles

These delicious bundles of veggies are great by themselves or as a side item to compliment your favorite American dinner!

Puff Pastry

A highly versatile pastry, and it's not nearly as difficult to make as you might think!

Savory Creole Sweet Potato Casserole

No sweet topping here - this has breadcrumbs & bacon and the Creole twist of Jamaican Pickapeppa Sauce in the…

Dorothy's Pickled Beets

This is a great and refreshing way to eat beets. No fuss, no muss, just big taste.