side dish

Serve Italian sausage meatballs with your favorite pasta. It feels Italians have the thousand and one flavors for sausage meat, try different ones and you will be surprised. Fennel flavored sausage is one of our favorites.

Roti is a delicious bread that complementes your Indian cuisine. Roti is a flat bread. It is unleavened and not baked, but cooked on a tava - griddle - with oil. Want to make your own righteous roti? That is as easy as one, two, three. OK, maybe it will take a half-dozen or so steps. But they're all simple.

Bisi bele baath is a mixture of rice and lentils that forms the staple of many an Indian table. It is rich in traditional Indian spices and is simply delicious with tandoori chicken or all by itself.

As you would expect in such a diverse and ancient land, there are thousands of rice-based recipes. Nearly every family will have its own distinctive favorite. This recipe is an example that any diner will enjoy.

Paratha is one of the delicious Indian flat breads. The difference with other types of breads comes because paratha is brushed with melted butter or ghee and folded over then cooked on the skillet with more butter resulting in flaky, delicate bread.

Wonderful new flavors happen to broccoli when you cut it thin, mix it with vegan mayonnaise and add a touch of spice. It becomes a flavorful vegetarian treat.

Saag paneer is a type of paneer and spinach curry, very easy to prepare.The addition of other Indian spices and spinach gives a slightly different flavor to palak paneer.

The peppercorns add a, well, peppery taste and the cloves smooth out the whole dish. The mango powder adds just the right touch of tropical flavor. The chickpeas give it a smooth consistency that proves that cooking is not just about taste but mouthfeel, too.

Make oat cakes in the best Scottish tradition. They are lovely with quince jelly and cheese.

The Green Man is also known as the Leaf Man or Jack the Green. He is the ancient image of the Goddesses' consort.