Browse all recipes on Cyanne Eats: easy, tested dishes for weeknight dinners, weekend baking, and everything in between.
Sweet potato casserole is a smooth, mashed sweet potato base baked until set, then topped with either mini marshmallows or a pecan streusel and browned in the oven, a distinctly different dish from candied yams, which keeps the sweet potato in whole sliced pieces. I used to think candied yams and sweet potato casserole were
Au gratin potatoes are thinly sliced potatoes layered with cream and cheese, usually gruyere or sharp cheddar, then baked until the potatoes are tender and the top is browned and bubbling, distinct from scalloped potatoes, which traditionally skip the cheese entirely. Most people use these two names interchangeably, and honestly, most recipes online do too.
Southern green beans are fresh green beans simmered low and slow in broth with bacon, ham hock, or smoked turkey for 45 minutes to an hour and a half, until they’re soft enough to fall apart on a fork, not crisp-tender. If you grew up on the quick-blanched, still-snappy version of green beans, this recipe
Butterkäse is one of the best all-purpose melting cheeses you can cook with, and it works in everything from grilled cheese and mac and cheese to eggs, pizza, and the viral stuffed sweet potato. Once I got my hands on a block of this stuff, I went a little overboard testing it in everything I
Candied carrots are sliced carrots simmered first in water until just tender, then finished in a butter and brown sugar glaze that reduces until it clings to every piece. Carrots are the side dish nobody plans around and everybody finishes first. Glazed properly, they go from an afterthought to the thing people ask about before
Cranberry sauce is fresh or frozen cranberries simmered with sugar and a little water or orange juice for about 10 to 15 minutes, until the berries pop and the natural pectin in the fruit thickens the sauce on its own as it cools. Canned cranberry sauce is a texture, not really a flavor, and the
Candied yams are sliced sweet potatoes simmered in a butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon syrup until tender and glazed, made on the stovetop or finished in the oven, with marshmallows entirely optional depending on which side of the family you grew up in. The name bothered me for years before I finally looked into it.
Creamed corn is fresh or frozen corn kernels simmered in butter and cream until the sauce thickens into something rich and slightly sweet, made without any canned cream-style corn at all. I spent years assuming creamed corn came from a can, the pale, oddly sweet stuff sitting next to the green beans on the Thanksgiving
Marry me chicken salad is a chopped salad made with rotisserie chicken, oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes, romaine lettuce, fresh basil, shaved Parmesan, and a creamy sun-dried tomato dressing spiked with Calabrian chili. If you have been on TikTok or Pinterest at all this spring, you have already seen this salad everywhere. It takes all the bold,
Hot honey Caesar pasta salad is a cold pasta salad made with cavatappi, grilled or rotisserie chicken, chopped romaine, cherry tomatoes, shaved Parmesan, and a creamy Caesar dressing spiked with hot honey. I started making this when I realized that Caesar dressing and hot honey were doing the same thing on the flavor wheel from
Viral carrot ribbon salad is a raw carrot salad where carrots are peeled into long wide ribbons using a Y-peeler and tossed in a sesame chili crisp dressing with fresh cilantro, scallions, and toasted sesame seeds. I have been making this ever since it took over TikTok and it genuinely changed the way I look
Copycat Panera strawberry poppyseed salad is a fruit salad made with chopped romaine, fresh strawberries, blueberries, mandarin oranges, pineapple chunks, candied pecans, and a creamy poppyseed dressing. This is one of those Panera orders I used to get every spring without fail, and the copycat takes about five minutes to put together once you have
Copycat Texas Roadhouse house salad is a steakhouse side salad made with iceberg and romaine lettuce, sharp cheddar cheese ribbons, chopped hard-boiled egg, grape tomatoes, and buttery garlic croutons served with dressing on the side. The Texas Roadhouse house salad is one of those side dishes that sounds basic on paper until you are actually
Black sesame cookies are soft, chewy drop cookies made with ground black sesame seeds or paste that give them a deep nutty flavor, a slightly earthy bite, and a dramatic dark color that looks unlike anything else on a cookie tray. I made these for the first time after seeing them all over my feed
Crispy garlic parmesan potatoes are baby Yukon Gold potato halves seasoned with garlic and Italian herbs, pressed cut-side down into a butter and Parmesan paste on a parchment-lined sheet pan, and roasted at 425 degrees until the cheese forms a golden, lacy, shattering crust on the bottom of each potato. The technique is the whole