Posts Tagged pasta

Dairy Free (& Gluten Free) Fettuccine Alfredo

Dairy Free (& Gluten Free) Fettuccine Alfredo

This dairy free alfredo sauce recipe is thick and bubbly in no time. Adding shrimp and asparagus promotes fettuccine alfredo from a side dish to a main course! The base recipe can be used to make it as a vegan side dish or the dairy free sauce can be used as a base for chicken alfredo, broccoli alfredo, lasagna alfredo, etc. This recipe can be made gluten free by using gluten free fettuccine and flour or regular b…

Lazy homemade pasta with minced pork and beef

Lazy homemade pasta with minced pork and beef

This recipe is as simple as 1-2-3! You can make it with pasta from a store but it’s more tender and delish if you cook it yourself.

Spinach Cheese Pasta

Spinach Cheese Pasta

Pasta in a healthy green spinach sauce. From the original site: I love spinach no less than Popeye and cook it in a variety of ways. You’ve read some of my Indian recipes with spinach so far; now presenting a healthy pasta sauce with spinach as its prime ingredient. This dish should make spinach-haters too have a change of heart.

“Japanese style” Spaghetti Meat Sauce

Make spaghetti meat sauce recipe from scratch. It takes some effort but the taste is way better than sauce from a jar. From the original site: Japanese style Spaghetti Meat Sauce was my favorite food since childhood and I always “had to” order it whenever we went to Western-style restaurant in Japan. I would even describe myself as a spaghetti meat sauce connoisseur since I’ve ate it so…

Spaghetti and Meatballs

Spaghetti and Meatballs

It’s yummy spaghetti and meatballs with veggies built into the meatballs and tomato sauce. No fighting with the kids (or hubby) to eat their veggies! From the original site: How to make awesome spaghetti and meatballs with a hidden serving of vegetables. Our trick? Pack the meatballs with grated carrots and zucchini. Aside from being healthy, carrots add natural sweetness while zucchini adds gr…

Healthy Macaroni and Cheese

Healthy Macaroni and Cheese

Whitney sends us this idea for a healthier mac & cheese featuring hidden butternut squash… Macaroni and cheese is a classic comfort food for 4 year olds and 40 year olds!  This is a healthy and wholesome version on a classic comfort dish.  www.SquashBlossomBabies.com offers recipes for the entire family.  I am a work at home mom and there is no time to be a slave to the kitchen…even though I…

$5 Spaghetti with Pepper & Cheese, Spicy Broccoli

$5 Spaghetti with Pepper & Cheese, Spicy Broccoli

I ran across this at Pink of Perfection, and I thought it was perfect to share on Foodwhirl.  Especially with the holiday season upon us, it’s nice to have inexpensive dinner ideas where you still feel like you’re treating yourself… To worry constantly about money is to lug over your shoulder a sack of bricks that you have to carry everywhere; it immediately affects all aspects of your q…

Homemade Ricotta Gnocchi with Roasted Tomato Sauce

Homemade Ricotta Gnocchi with Roasted Tomato Sauce

MMMM… Gnocchi…  Comfort food at it’s finest.  And one of those things that I never had growing up, but am a huge fan of now. I will say that like Allison, I’ve generally been intimidated by making my own pasta (although Niki totally makes it look easy, here!).  But these instructions for making homemade ricotta gnocchi seem like something I could take on… …At any rat…

Spotlight: Pork Ragu

Spotlight: Pork Ragu

Over at Talk of Tomatoes, Janelle (she’s a contributor here too!) has a tasty looking recipe for Pork Ragu!  This looks like a wonderfully simple ‘go-to’ meal… I am in love with ragu. Shall I marry it? I made this ragu recently for lunch, and my eldest son says to me: “mom, this is the only thing I am willing to eat the rest of my life.” His way of saying: make it again and again and again a…

Braised Beef Cannelloni

Braised Beef Cannelloni

This recipe came out of a desire to use the beef pot roast that was on sale without actually making POT ROAST AGAIN. I mean, I love pot roast.  But I get sick of it. See, here’s a scenario for you:  you find a great price on an inexpensive cut of beef, the kind that really needs to be put in the crock pot to be tender, and you buy five of them.  And every few weeks you take one out of the freezer and make pot roast.  A…

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