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Side dish recipes

We love our flavorful side dishes at Laughing Spatula! Sides dishes don’t get the credit they should- sure, they’re not the main course, but they can still pack a punch with flavor and enhancing your meal. Be it a wedge salad platter, Roasted Brussel Sprouts, Garlic and Cheese Stuffed Bread, or Easy One Rise Dinner Rolls, we have your side dishes covered. The in laws will LOVE you for bringing a Laughing Spatula side dish recipe!

Side dishes can highlight a perfect meal! Let us show you how to make easy and delicious side dish recipes.

Autumn Salad

Autumn Salad with Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Maple Cider Vinaigrette

By Kathi & Rachel

Autumn Salad with Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Maple Cider Vinaigrette!  Using mostly prepped store bought ingredients, this salad is a breeze to make and will feed a crowd! Crisp apples, toasted pecans, blue cheese crumbles, bacon and roasted sweet potatoes!  All mixed together in  a super easy to make Maple-Dijon and Lemon Vinaigrette. How to Make…

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cranberry sauce in white dish with whole oranges in background

Orange Cranberry Sauce with Cinnamon and Vanilla

By Kathi & Rachel

Cranberry sauce is second to Thanksgiving Stuffing for my favorite Turkey Day side dish! I love the tanginess of it but also the smell of it as it permeates my kitchen. This Cranberry sauce has orange, cinnamon and vanilla and has a high end taste with a simple recipe. It is bar none, the best…

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roasted butternut pasta and cream sauce

Roasted Butternut Squash with Penne and Garlic Cream Sauce

By Kathi & Rachel

Roasted Butternut Squash with Penne and Garlic Cream Sauce! – A delicious and easy to make side dish or main meal for Fall and Holidays!   Rachel and I couldn’t keep our forks (or fingers) out of this dish!  The cream sauce is infused with the sage and roasted butternut adds a savory sweet side…

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fresh corn salad with avocado

Fresh Corn and Avocado Salad with Honey Lime Vinaigrette

By Kathi & Rachel

Fresh Corn Salad with Avocado –  A no cook crunchy, big flavored salad.  Served with a super quick Honey Lime Vinaigrette! If you love the crunch of fresh corn you are going to love this salad!  It’s surprising how delicious corn is when left in it’s crunchy natural state!    WHY WE LOVE THIS FRESH…

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Greek Pasta Salad

Greek Pasta Salad

By Kathi & Rachel

This big flavored Greek Pasta Salad is packed with crunchy veggies, chunks of feta and salty olives.  Tossed with a super simple lemon vinaigrette,  it is the perfect side dish! This salad packs a big punch of crunch!  Packed full of fresh veggies along with salty olives and fat chunks of feta it will become…

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Asian slaw with ginger peanut dressing

Asian Slaw with Sesame Peanut Dressing

By Kathi & Rachel

Crunchy and Fresh Asian Slaw with an easy to make Sesame Peanut Dressing !  Perfect side dish for chicken, fish or burgers!   Full of fresh crunchy veggies, this recipe goes with everything.  A perfect salad for all seasons! We first had this at my friend’s place in Palm Springs.    She served this delicious…

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strawberry salad ingredients in a large wooden bowl

The Best Strawberry Spinach Salad Recipe

By Kathi & Rachel

What makes this Strawberry Spinach Salad Recipe the best?  Everything!  Blueberries, feta and our dear friend avocado.  Along with a  delicious two minute Poppy Seed Vinaigrette recipe…it is THE BEST!   Feels like spring time to me!  This salad has been in our lives for a very long time.  We eat variations of it for…

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a skillet with cauliflower rice

Cauliflower Rice with Mushrooms and Feta

By Kathi & Rachel

Cauliflower Rice with Mushrooms and Feta! – This combo will make you quickly forget it’s cauliflower and not rice!   Cauliflower rice where have you been all my life!  I mean I have heard of it, but I really didn’t think it would taste like rice…but it does!  Especially with a little help from my beloved mushrooms…

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candied carrots in a red bowl with thyme and garlic

Honey Glazed Carrots with Garlic & Thyme

By Kathi & Rachel

These Honey Glazed Carrots with Garlic and Thyme taste like savory candy, and they’re absolutely delicious, and perfect for any holiday- Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas, you name it- they’ll do! You’ll simmer these carrots in about 1 inch of water in a shallow stovetop pan for about 2 minutes- any sooner and they’re too crunchy, any…

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Cheesey Au Gratin Potatoes in a red casserole

Cheesy Potatoes Au Gratin

By Kathi & Rachel

 Easy Cheesy Potatoes Au Gratin! – This dish looks so fancy but it is so incredibly simple!  It’s just turning the sliced potatoes upside down! Simply toss sliced potatoes with fresh cream, garlic and cheese.  Stack them up and put them in the pan! Don’t touch that dial!  I know, these look sooooo hard to…

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homemade rolls in a glass pan on a checkered cloth

Easy Homemade Rolls

By Kathi & Rachel

These Easy Homemade Rolls  are one rise.  No double duty!   This recipe is unique and delicious!  Make these once and you will never go store bought again…they are that easy.  And check out the new video we just added below!   Whats the secret to a great one rise roll?  Nothing fancy…just simple ingredients…

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two bowls of tomato soup with spoons

Skinny Tomato and Roasted Red Pepper Soup

By Kathi & Rachel

Here is one of my secret diet weapons!  Skinny Tomato and Roasted Red Pepper Soup.  Coming in at only 30 calories a cup.  (That is exactly a cup in the photo by the way).  It’s hearty and healthy and great with a half a turkey sammie for lunch.  In under 30 minutes you can have…

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The BEST and EASIEST Baked Mexican Rice

By Kathi & Rachel

When I say I like easy- I really mean it. You know what else gets me? Fluffy restaurant style Mexican rice. It’s SO HARD to duplicate at home but guess what? I found a way! You will LOVE my recipe for the BEST and EASIEST Baked Mexican Rice!  Yet another recipe I made up but…

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Mediterranean Salad in a clear large bowl

Mediterranean Orzo Pasta Salad

By Kathi & Rachel

This beautiful Mediterranean Orzo Salad is stuffed with veggies and comes together in less than 20 minutes. It’s fast, fresh and easy to prepare.  Just the way we love our food around here!   This salad is more like an antipasto pasta salad if there is such a thing. We added salami and artichokes to…

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Tex Mex Pasta Salad with Chili Tomato Vinaigrette

By Kathi & Rachel

 Tex Mex Pasta Salad with Chili Tomato Vinaigrette! –  Fresh crunchy corn, black beans, avocado and a plethora of veggies tossed with pasta and a flavorful easy to make vinaigrette!   Love me some Tex Mex flavors!  Black beans, peppers, corn and of course our good friend avocado!  We went heavy on the veg for…

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