Wisconsin Recipe Blog
Many of our side dishes can easily be your main dish for dinner, such as our meaty salads, crockpot recipes and Mediterranean meals.
We have quick & easy cold salads and warm and hearty southern style dishes. Though our focus remains Midwestern, I bring these recipes together from our family gatherings and pot-luck work parties.
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It’s not Thanksgiving without Green Bean Casserole. I used to hate this stuff as a kid. I just couldn’t stomach it. But when it was my turn to learn Thanksgiving, I had to figure out why it was disgusting. It didn’t take long to figure …
There are so many ways to make homemade mashed potatoes – you like ’em creamy, or thick… with fresh flavors or any variety of gravy? Skin on or peeled? I like my mashed potatoes just about every way you can make them. I love mashed …
This makes a moist & tasty cornbread casserole, but you could make muffins from it, too. I like to add sour cream to make it extra moist. Ingredients: 1 can whole corn 1 can creamed corn 1 box cornbread muffin mix 1 egg 2 Tbsp …
I like brussels sprouts, usually loaded with buttter and salt. I’m always looking for new vegetable dishes or new ways to cook the classics. This Brussels sprouts with bacon recipe makes an excellent addition to your Holiday spread. I usually make these on Thanksgiving. They’re …
I wanted to make a broccoli salad, maybe with bacon, maybe without mayo, but broccoli salad is usually complemented with some other vegetable, like cauliflower — so, here we have a broccoli-cauliflower salad! With bacon, and just a bit of mayo. You can make more …
This Pepper Slaw came from a Marlboro recipe, probably an insert to the Cook Like A Man Cookbook. Don’t be apprehensive about making things from scratch – this is super easy. Just make sure you have a really big knife. To slice the cabbage, I …
There are may versions of this Midwest classic, but I think this version is pretty close to whatever the original was, and I’m sorry I don’t have a story for the history of this strange Crunchy Ramen Salad concoction. I remember my grandma making it. …
This is my Grandma’s thin spaghetti salad, a Christmas staple. I’ve removed the MSG and replaced it with a bit of salt and sugar in the seasoning mix. You can adjust it as you like, but while I ask for it every year, I don’t …
I have at least four recipes for tuna macaroni salad; one of them calls for black olives? Oh, wait, that’s just macaroni salad without the tuna – I’ll make that one later. But, today’s lunch was a practically perfect tuna-macaroni salad. Pretty simple. I’m too …
I love Spanakopita. I never really liked spinach. When my aunt make spinach, we were forced to eat it – or just look at that pile of green stuff on our plate while the other kids went to play after dinner. Stuck at that table …
