K's Sides Archives - Page 3 of 3

Posted by Keelin Hollenbeck on February 5, 2010

I love asparagus so every time it is on sale at my grocery store I like to buy it and make a meal out of it. To make roasted asparagus

Ingredients:

1 pound of asparagus

1-2 tsp of olive oil

Course Salt

Pepper

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Wash asparagus and break of the tough bottom part off, about 1-2 inches should break off. Place the asparagus on the baking sheet and drizzle them with olive oil. Then roll the asparagus around so that they are evenly coated with olive oil. Salt and pepper them to your liking. Place baking sheet in heated oven and cook for about 15-20 minutes. Taste one after 15 minutes to see if they are soft enough, if not put them back in for a couple more minutes at a time (Don’t burn your mouth, they are HOT!).

Enjoy!

-K

Posted by Keelin Hollenbeck on January 19, 2010

I made these green beans the other day but didn’t have time to post about them. This is a recipe that is from Cooking Light Magazine and goes with a recipes for Fresh Tomato, Sausage, and Pecorino Pasta. It instantly became one of my favorite recipes for green beans and I cook them about every week.

Lemony Green Beans:

Steam 1 pound trimmed green beans 5 minutes or until crisp-tender. Drain and rise with cold water; drain and place in a bowl. Add 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind, I tablespoon fresh lemon juice, 1 ½ teaspoons extra virgin olive oil, ½ teaspoon salt, and ¼ teaspoon black pepper, toss well.

Sorry no pictures, they basically look like green beans with lemon zest on them. :)

Enjoy!

-K

Posted by Keelin Hollenbeck on January 17, 2010

Sorry everyone for not posting in so long, My heat is finally fixed and it is now full blast in my apartment for a hot and uncomfortable 97.8 degrees (not really but that’s what it feels like to me). What have I been making lately? Lean cuisines and leftovers because that is about as long as I can stay in my kitchen without passing out from the heat. Yesterday my roommate and I decided to make some Sweet Potato French Fries despite the heat. They were as always… delicious. I don’t really follow a recipe for these but I let you in on how the awesomeness is made.

Sweet Potato French Fries

Ingredients

3-5 sweet potatoes

Olive Oil cooking spray

Salt

Pepper

Ketchup (optional)

Directions

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Wash the sweet potatoes and cut the ends off. Then cut the sweet potatoes into wedges (we keep the skin on). You can make them as thick as you want; we made ours closer to steak fries thick. Place the cut up potatoes on a baking sheet and spray liberally with olive oil spray. You want to make sure both sides are coated, and then sprinkle with salt and pepper to your liking. Cook them for about 20-30 minutes until done, turned them over with a spatula occasionally. Serve with ketchup or whatever you want to put on your fries.

Enjoy!

-K

Posted by Keelin Hollenbeck on January 4, 2010

My heat was still broken when I got home from work today and my apartment was about 45 degrees. I was planning to make Indian-Inspired Butternut Squash from my newest Cooking Light Cookbook, but my hands were so cold I thought I might accidently cut them off while cutting a butternut squash. So I opted for left over Minestra soup from the other night and a baked potato. I use to make bake potatoes by putting them in the microwave for like 7-8 minutes. My mom showed me how to make them in the oven though and they are about a hundreds time better.
Directions:
Take however many potatoes (I use baking potatoes/russets) that you want, preheat the oven to about 475 F, and then wash the potatoes. Next you want to prick some holes in the potatoes with a fork all around and place them directly on the oven rack, no cooking sheet needed. Then cook the potatoes for about an hour. Take them out of the oven with oven mitts on, unless your hands were freezing like mine (kidding). Then cut a slit in the top (going the long way) open the potato and mash it up. I eat mine with chives, a little light cheddar cheese, light sour cream, light butter, and salt and pepper. Mmmmm

Enjoy!

-K