Make Dinner More Interesting — 8 Great Side Dish Recipes Slideshow

This side dish can also serve as a meal on its own, but it's great as an accompaniment to a protein like grilled chicken or fresh fish...

Carly Goldsmith

Click here to see the Couscous with Roasted Vegetables and Feta Recipe.

Grilled Potato, Onion, and Arugula Salad

Sweet from the onion and pepper, tangy from the grilled lemon, filling and texturally satisfying because of the char-grilled potatoes, it's a salad that doesn't feel like a "salad."

Arthur Bovino

Click here to see the Grilled Potato, Onion, and Arugula Salad Recipe.

Summer Pasta Salad

The cool flavors complement each other and create a not-too-heavy pasta salad that is perfect as a side or as a meal...

Tyler Sullivan

Click here to see the Summer Pasta Salad Recipe.

Syracuse Salt Potatoes

Salt potatoes are the kind of simple yet delicious side that makes weeknight cooking worth it...

Nathan Cyphert

Click here to see the Syracuse Salt Potatoes Recipe.

Fiddlehead Ferns with Pine Nuts, Pecorino, and Lemon Zest

Fiddlehead ferns have a slightly nutty flavor when cooked, and so I thought fiddleheads, toasted pine nuts, and salty, slightly funky pecorino would be a good combination...

Will Budiaman

Click here to see the Fiddlehead Ferns with Pine Nuts, Pecorino, and Lemon Zest Recipe.

Oven-Roasted Rosemary Potatoes

Set it and forget it. Stick these taters in the oven and let them crisp up while you focus on the rest of your meal...

Drew Colbert

Click here to see Oven-Roasted Rosemary Potatoes Recipe.

Roasted Asparagus with Poached Egg and Lemon-Mustard Sauce

Here's a delicious seasonal side dish from Lori Yates, Culinary Content Network member and author of the blog foxes love lemons. Gobble up all that peak asparagus before it's gone!

Click here to see the Roasted Asparagus with Poached Egg and Lemon-Mustard Sauce Recipe.

Cheesy Bacon Roasted Potatoes

Jasey, author of Crazy Daisy, part of the Culinary Content Network, is totally hooked on these potatoes. We think you will be, too.

Click here to see the Cheesy Bacon Roasted Potatoes Recipe.