Lasagna just happens to be one of those dishes that if you are going to make one, you might as well make three. By the time you make your sauce, boil your noodles and get all the other ingredients together, you might as well just set up an assembly line of a few more. These [...]
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Warm Pasta Salad with Roasted Vegetables
I love when autumn arrives. I totally change how we eat when the evenings become a little cooler. I put away the grill and start thinking a little differently on how I will be preparing our meals. This is a great little pasta salad. I prefer to serve it warm or room temperature, but it [...]
Orzo with Everything
This salad is just bursting with amazing flavors and textures. Unfortunately, I didn’t get my usual step-by-step photos in; however, this is a very straight forward recipe. Just boil, chop and toss. This is the perfect salad to feed a large group, take to a pot-luck or picnic. You can also add in chicken or [...]
Angel Hair Pasta with Scallops, Shrimp, Arugula and Asparagus
I rarely eat pasta anymore, but thought I would splurge. I mean it was Valentine’s Day and all. I am glad I did. This dish has lots of flavors and textures with a light and bright sauce to tie everything together. You can really build on this recipe. I can see throwing in some grape [...]
Five Cheese Stuffed Shells or Manicotti
Creamy, delicius and very satisfying. These shells have it all. I love the combination of all the cheeses stuffed into one little shell, with the robust red sauce on top. You could also use manicotti shells as well. These are great if you are feeding a crowd. I doubled my recipe and it made four [...]
Orzo Pasta Salad as a Main Course
Fox 40 News Orzo Pasta Salad I was on a local news channel today, I think that if you click on the above link it will link you to my segment. I have trouble with all things tech related! So I ramped up this side salad and made it a main course salad by [...]
Spicy Sausage Tomato Sauce
This is my basic, go-to, red sauce. I use it to serve over any type of pasta, lasagna, and my stuffed manicotti or stuffed Italian shells. My family won’t eat this (it’s too chunky). When I do make it for them I have to use tomato sauce instead of the crushed tomatoes. I personally think that not using the [...]
Penne in Cream Sauce with Sausage
This may not look like much but this is one heavenly dish. I do believe that about five years ago this recipe was the most searched, downloaded and read recipe on epicurious. What’s not to love. Cream, parmesean cheese, sausage. Oh my, excuse me, but I do believe I am becoming weak in my knees. [...]
Orzo salad with Feta and Cherry Tomatoes
Orzo is a rice shaped pasta. This orzo salad is full of fun textures and the sweet cherry tomatoes give it a pop of color. You could easily add grilled shrimp to this recipe for a light main course. Perfect for summer entertaining. Here are the ingredients. When I boil my orzo I like to [...]
Chicken Pepperoni
This dish was inspired by a movie in the 1980′s. Do you remember the Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn movies? I loved the movie Seems Like Old Times. In the movie Goldie Hawn was going to have a dinner party, and her maid, Aurora, was going to make her Chicken Pepperoni. That sounded so [...]
