Sides

Purple Cabbage Slaw

This purple cabbage slaw is a take on North Woods Inn’s famous Red Cabbage Salad. You’ll find versions of this recipe everywhere, but it’s about more than ingredients.

5-Minute Spinach Dip

Some parties you plan for weeks … and others have a predictably unpredictable way of coming together at the last minute. Today was one of those days — with football playoffs all afternoon and the Golden Globes tonight, we needed something delicious, easy and fast. Thank goodness for 5-Minute Spinach […]

Crispy Salt & Vinegar Potatoes

Which came first, the potato or the chip? A little confusion is understandable. At first this crispy Salt & Vinegar Potato side dish might seem like a fun riff on commercial salt and vinegar chips (or “crisps”), but really, it’s the other way around. Bagged salt and vinegar chips date […]

Everybody’s Favorite Kale Salad

Sometimes it just works. A pretty good recipe gradually transforms into a great one, and after a few hit potlucks, it has a regular seat at every holiday meal and sports event — an unspoken hope that just maybe the Knicks will win this year. This kale salad is one […]

Baked Plantain

Plantains, or cooking bananas, have been delighting palates since the days of Cleopatra. To eat a banana raw, in fact, is a particularly modern phenomenon. And as much as we love a mildly sweet, mutated modern banana, there is something earthy and magical about this ancient bitter fruit that transforms […]