Side dishes recipes with 500 or fewer calories costing less than $0.5 per serving

Cauliflower & Potatoes ~ Indian style

I have never been a really big fan of cauliflower, but I love potatoes and spices. This dish, known as 'Alu…

Scalloped Potatoes ~ Microwave Quick!

Scalloped potatoes cooked in 12 minutes? Compare that to the hour-and-a-half baking time most scalloped potato…

Easy Persian Rice in a Rice Cooker

Admittedly, this doesn't capture the crunch outside of the normal method of making persian rice. But if you…

Spanish Rice

Ever wondered how to get that perfect consistency of spanish rice that's served in restaurants? Here's the secret...

Wasabi Cream Sauce

Wasabi Cream Sauce

Gingered carrots

Cooler Corn

Large gatherings of people who like corn on the cob requires a couple of lobster pots or a wash tub and a lot of boiling water and patience. Not…

Bavarian Semmelknoedel/Bread Dumplings

This is a very traditional bread dumpling that is served in restaurants in Austria and Bavaria. This is a…

Swiss Corn Bake

Macaroni and slaw salad

This recipe comes from my Taste of Home cookbook. It is a delicious, easy to make and my go to salad recipe for potlucks.

Toasted-Coconut Rice

This is a light, tasty rice that goes well with curries or other asian dishes.

Mango Chipotle Sauce/Glaze

This is a good sauce/glaze for almost anything. It is easy to make and stores refrigerated well for several days or if air tight much longer. I…

Copper Carrots

German Spaetzle

Spaetzle (SPETZ-LAY) is a traditional, and very popular German noodle. It's excellent to use in place of egg noodles. In Bavaria, where my family…

Fig chutney

Fig chutney