Every great meal begins with something small and special.
These appetizers and sides are proof that flavor doesn’t need to shout — it just needs balance.
From crisp fritters to warm breads, buttery vegetables, and dips made with care, this collection brings together all the dishes that turn a simple dinner into an experience.
Perfect for gatherings, date nights, or quiet evenings at home, each recipe carries Wilder’s touch of elegance and ease.
They’re inviting, shareable, and made to complement every table beautifully.
The lunch I make on repeat. Chopped chicken, the crispiest bacon, fresh tomato, and just enough mayo to bring it all together. This is the lunch I keep coming back to. It’s everything I love about a BLT — smoky crispy bacon, juicy tomato, creamy mayo — but turned into something more substantial with chopped
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Mini Italian pizzas with a crust made of chicken. Just trust me. These are pizzette — Italian for “little pizzas.” And the crust? It’s made of chicken, cottage cheese, eggs, and shredded cheddar. No flour. No almond flour. No psyllium husk. Just real ingredients that bake up into something sturdy, savory, and ridiculously satisfying. I
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The cold soup I make all summer. Blender to bowl in 4 minutes, no stove required. There’s a moment every summer when nothing sounds worse than turning on the stove. The kitchen is already hot, you’re already tired, and the idea of standing over a pot for any length of time is genuinely unappealing. That’s
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The pasta salad that actually tastes like pasta salad. Make it a day ahead and watch it disappear at every cookout. I didn’t realize how much I missed pasta salad until I made this one. It’s one of those foods that’s so tied to summer — cookouts, picnics, potlucks, lazy lunches on the patio —
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Caesar salad you eat with your hands. A crispy cheese shell, dressed romaine, and chicken — folded up like a taco. I love a good Caesar salad, but let’s be honest, eating salad with a fork is a little boring. So I gave it a glow-up. This is my walking Caesar salad — a crispy
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All the flavor of buffalo wings, in dip form, with crispy bacon strips for dipping. The recipe that disappears at every party. I’ve made a lot of dips over the years. Some good. Some forgettable. None of them get demolished at parties the way this one does. This is my keto buffalo wings dip —
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The game-day snack that proves keto and nachos can absolutely coexist. Nachos are one of those foods I genuinely thought I’d lost forever when I went keto. The carb count on tortilla chips is brutal, and most “keto chip” alternatives taste like cardboard with regret. So I stopped trying — until I figured out how
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