Great side dishes don’t just taste good, they have the potential to push past their sideline spots to become the main dish. In fact, side dishes are a great way to make use of leftovers, because it’s easy to combine already-cooked vegetables, grains, or meat with freshly cooked ones to create an entirely new meal. [...]
The allium family includes everything from the delicate chive to the hardy leek to the eye-stinging yellow onion. “Spring” onions refer to the greener, milder types that were traditionally harvested in the spring: green onions or scallions. The more-familiar types–red, yellow, white, Spanish–are “storage” or “dry” onions. There isn’t as wide of a gulf in [...]
