Summer Squash with Bacon

Yellow squash and zucchini are sauteed with potatoes, onion, and bacon. This is a side dish so good I tend to make it for lunch and eat it as a meal. Almost every summer my mother would have a bumper crop of zucchini and yellow squash in her garden and this was her preferred way of cooking it up.

Step: 1

Place bacon in a cold pan and cook over medium heat until bacon begins to curl and some grease is in the pan, about 5 minutes. Add potatoes and cook and stir until lightly browned, about 5 minutes.

Step: 2

Add onion to the pan; cook and stir until softened and translucent, 3 to 4 minutes. Add squash and zucchini; cook and stir until squash begins to soften and brown slightly, 5 to 7 minutes. Cover and continue to cook until potatoes are tender, about 10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Serve immediately.

Per Serving: 227 calories; protein 10.1g; carbohydrates 34.5g; fat 6.3g; cholesterol 15.1mg; sodium 375mg.

The most clear way to choose a side dish is to caught at your main dish (pasta, chicken, seared tofu) and choose more different. If you’re making pasta, go for a simple vegetable . Made steak? Go for more light. If you’re making stir-fry with rice, it must not a good idea to also make a rice salad.

This also can apply to cooking process . You don’t want to overcommit your oven by scheduling three dishes at once in there, or be rounding four pans on the stovetop . But often you can made a dish do double-duty .