Two Easy & Delicious Side Dish Recipes - Mom Endeavors (2024)

  • Sara @MomEndeavors
  • December 12, 2013

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This is a sponsored post by Private Selection for Kroger. All opinions & experiences are entirely my own. Whether it’s cooking for the holidays or just a nice weeknight meal, it’s nice to have side dish recipes that taste delicious but are easy to make! And, I’ve got two for you today (one savory and one sweet)– Cinnamon Brown Sugar Butternut Squash and Parmesan Roasted Garlic & Herb Red Potatoes! SUPER yum!

These dishes are easy to make and delicious thanks to the Private Selection™ line of finishing butters from the Kroger family of stores! There are six different flavors featuring both savory and sweet varieties, including:

  • Roasted Garlic & Herbs
  • Lemon, Garlic & Herb
  • Lemon Pepper
  • Cinnamon Brown Sugar
  • Honey
  • Caramel Sea Salt

Don’t those flavors sound great?! These finishing butters make creating some delicious kitchen creations so easy! Let start with the cinnamon brown sugar squash! Just 1 butternut squash and half the container of Private Selection cinnamon brown sugar finishing butter is all you need! Start by cutting the squash (the hardest part 😉 ) and scooping out the seeds. Then cube the squash into bite-size chunks and place into a greased baking dish. Melt about 4 tablespoons of the finishing butter, pour over the squash, and toss to coat all the squash.Cover and bake for about 30 minutes at 375 degrees. Remove from the oven, uncover, (optional – add a sprinkle brown sugar over the top) and return to the oven for about 10 – 15 minutes longer…until the squash is fork tender.

Yum!

Now, how about a savory recipe?! These parmesan roasted garlic & herb red potatoes are delish and can bake at the same time as the squash if you’d like to make both sides for dinner some night!

For this delish side dish, you just need about 8-10 red potatoes, half a container of the roasted garlic & herbs finishing butter, and about 1/4 cup of shredded parmesan cheese. Cut each potato into 4-6 segments and put all the cut potatoes in a large greased baking dish. Melt the 4 tablespoons of finishing butter and pour over the cut potatoes. Toss the potatoes, cover, and bake for about 45 minutes at 375. Remove from oven, uncover, and sprinkle at least 1/4 cup (or more) of shredded parmesan cheese over the potatoes. Return to the oven until the cheese is melted and potatoes are fork tender.These potatoes are SO good (and SO easy)! In fact, next time I make these, I’ll be doubling the recipe! The blends in the butter combined with the parmesan cheese is delicious!

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44 Responses

  1. What an easy way to make a side dish!

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  2. I would try Lemon, Gar­lic & Herb first

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  3. I think I would try the lemon pepper first!

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  4. I’d like the honey.

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  5. I want to try the Roasted Garlic and Herbs one!

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  6. Love the Roasted Garlic and Herb. So easy. So fun Barb

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  7. I love roasted garlic flavor so the first Private Selection Finishing Butter I would like to try is the Roasted Garlic and Herb flavor.

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  8. Roasted Gar­lic & Herbs

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  9. The Roasted Garlic and Herbs sounds really good to me.

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  10. The lemon, garlic and herbs one.

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  11. I would start with roasted garlic with herbs.

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  12. I’d like to try the Cinnamon Brown Sugar.

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  13. The cinnamon brown sugar sounds great!

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  14. I would like to try all of these but probably lemon pepper or roasted garlic and herb first.

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  15. I would like to try the Cinnamon brown sugar one

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  16. Cinnamon brown sugar sounds so yummy!!

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  17. I want to try the honey butter

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  18. I’d like Lemon, Gar­lic & Herb

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  19. I would love to try the cinnamon brown sugar with some squash!

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  20. Roasted garlic and herb sounds yummy

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  21. The honey butter sounds the best to me!

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  22. Caramel Sea Salt.

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  23. I would LOVE to try the Lemon Pepper!! Looks so good! I LOVE Private Selection! 🙂

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  24. roasted garlic and herb. i love lots of garlic

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  25. I would try the cinnamon brown sugar

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  26. I want to try the roasted garlic and herb,. Not just to make the potatoes you made, but also for breadsticks.

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  27. The two you used would be my top picks. The cinnamon for sweet and the garlic herb for savory. Some homemade biscuits would be so delicious with the cinnamon.

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  28. I’d like to try the Roasted Garlic & Herbs kind first!

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  29. Roasted garlic & herb for sure. Im a huge garlic lover

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  30. I would most like to try the cinnamon brown sugar.

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  31. I’d like to try the Lemon Pep­per flavor first!

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  32. Soooo easy!

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  33. id love to try the lemon pepper

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  34. lemon pepper

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  35. Lemon Pepper!

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  36. I would like to try to Roasted Garlic & Herbs first!

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  37. Eenie meenie minie mo…. these all are making me so very hungry. I think I would like to try the Lemon Pepper first, then garlic, then….

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  38. Probably garlic and herbs…yum!

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  39. I want to try the cinnamon brown sugar

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  40. I want to try the cin­na­mon brown sugar fin­ish­ing but­ter

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  41. These look great, but I don’t have a Kroger’s nearby

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    1. Bummer, Ami. There are many Kroger-chain stores that carry the product depending on your location (ie. Baker’s Dillon’s, Fry’s, Harris Teeter, Smith’s, Ralph’s, etc). But, if there aren’t any, you can totally make your own infused butters at home! The store bought ones just cut out a few steps! 🙂

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