Honey Mustard Green Beans with Salami are a side dish that's nice enough for a special meal, but easy to make and oh, so delicious! Click here to join the Overtime Cook WhatsApp Status, for exclusive recipes, tips and content! Some recipes are carefully planned. Other recipes, like this one, are created because I need a way to use something up. Recently, I was thinking about how to make green beans that I had, and I looked to my fridge for inspiration. And there it was! See, I recently made a recipe for my column in mishpacha magazine, and it used a log of salami. I was in Costco, and bought a two pack of salami logs, figuring I would find some way to use the other one. But it … [Read more...]
Roasted Acorn Squash with Crispy Chickpeas
Roasted Acorn Squash with Crispy Chickpeas is the perfect (and super easy!) fall side dish! Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. Recently, my husband and I were having a discussion about how my cooking has changed since we got married. I think he was surprised to hear that it had changed, at all. But think about it... would he really know? So how did it change? There are some minor changes, but also a few big ones. One big one is that my husband really does not like bone-in chicken. He'll eat it, but when he does, he definitely prefers white meat. Which is super weird to me because bone-in … [Read more...]
Roasted Green Beans with Asian Peanut Sauce
Roasted Green Beans with Asian Peanut Sauce: a quick and easy side dish that's both addictive and family-friendly! Have a question about one of my recipes? The best place to get answers is the Overtime Cook Recipes Facebook Group! Tonight's post was supposed to be about Purim. I had been brainstorming purim recipes, had a list of ideas for hamantaschen, shalach manos, and even the purim seudah. But then. But then, this idea came to me. Roasted Green Beans - but with an Asian peanut twist. That's right. It's everything I (and you!) love in a side dish: veggie? Yep. Super easy? Yep. Minimal prep time? Yep. Minimal dishes to wash? Yep. Family friendly? Yep. Addictive? TOTALLY. So. … [Read more...]
Grilled Corn and Pastrami Salad
Grilled Corn and Pastrami Salad has an amazing smoky flavor, bringing together all of the best things about summer food! I'm feeling deja vu here. I know, this recipe is brand new, but I really dreamed it up a while ago. In fact, this salad was the original inspiration for this grilled chicken and corn salad. The recipes both started to run together in my head, what with the whole grilled corn (yum!) thing going on, and it's kinda confusing. Especially because my head is pretty confusing as it is, with multiple cookie recipes being formulated at any given point too. But despite the similarities between the recipes, I decided to just go for it and share this one. Mostly because...um, … [Read more...]
Roasted Green Beans with Onion Garlic
Roasted Green Beans are a delicious side dish that's perfect for someone who's eating healthy! You know how I said in my last post that I find myself eating lots of the same foods, turning to old favorites, and keeping my food under my new diet pretty simple? Well then I started to think to myself...maybe some of these old favorites are simple, but who's to say y'all wouldn't enjoy some of these recipes? Well I took an informal poll on Instagram and Facebook, asking if you folks were interested in the recipe for these roasted green beans. Turns out, lots of you wanted it! So tonight I am sharing one of my favorite veggie recipes. And by that I mean, this is how my mother always … [Read more...]
Golden Cauliflower and Plum Tomatoes and a Review and Giveaway of Starters and Sides Made Easy
As you all know, I love cookbooks. Basically all cookbooks. But it's not every day that my good friends and colleagues publish a book, so this one has me extra excited! The dynamic author-duo of Leah Schapira and Victoria Dwek have done it again. You may remember my review of their last joint effort, Passover Made Easy, and how much I loved it. Well, they have absolutely outdone themselves in their latest effort, Starters & Sides Made Easy. Ready to read what I thought? (Scroll down past my review for your chance to win your own copy!) At first glance: As with their previous book, Starters & Sides Made Easy is chock full of creative and inventive ideas, beautifully photographed … [Read more...]
Crispy Baked Onion Rings
Crispy Baked Onion Rings are healthier than they look. Intrigued? Read on! Remember how last week I was craving onion rings? You might have read about it on facebook, and then later on when I mentioned it in my post. Well those who know me will not be surprised to learn that once I get an idea in my head, it doesn't leave very easily. And so onion rings were right on the top of my mind for a couple of days now. And finally I made them. But let me backtrack for a minute. I recently photographed baked onion rings for a photography job I did. (You didn't know that I do freelance photography? Now you do!) And really, that's when the cravings started. Those were baked, but still, not … [Read more...]
Garlic Spaghetti Squash with Tomatoes and Basil and a Review and Giveaway of The No Potato Passover
With Passover coming, everyone I know is scrambling for recipes and ideas. I don't know about you, but when I think Passover, I think potatoes. And when I think of the day after Passover, I think about being intensely sick and tired of potatoes. And that's why I think everyone celebrating passover can appreciate The No Potato Passover by Aviva Kanoff. Read what I thought of it, then enter below for one of two chances to win a copy! At a First Glance: First I was all, "no way I want to go through an entire Passover without a potato." But as I read through the cookbook, I was impressed with the idea. Sure I'm going to eat potatoes. But this book has some refreshing ideas of recipes that … [Read more...]