Posts Tagged pasta
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
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
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
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
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
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…
Vegetable Pasta Italiano
I just love a meal I can throw together in a few minutes. This is super easy and makes use of prepared organic marinara sauce. I’ve tried it with all kinds of pasta sauces and you just can’t go wrong. I add veggies to it and prefer to leave them chunky, but my sister always “hid” the veggies in hers by pureeing them so her kids wouldn’t know there were veggies in there. Som…
Making homemade pasta
Although dried pasta is quite inexpensive and extremely convenient, there is something to be said for knowing exactly what is going into the food that you’re consuming. There is also something to be said for de-stressing while enjoying a nice glass of wine and vigorously kneading an elastic ball of pasta dough. Not to mention the satisfaction and wonder that comes from knowing you took three sim…
Lasagna
Everyone has their favorite lasagna recipe. This is mine. And while others are probably more authentic to Italy, this is pretty durn authentic to my Sicilian grandmother, my mother, and my New Jersey Italian relatives although I have made some changes over the years. I’ve tried many recipes, and many variations. I’ve added spinach, I’ve swapped cottage cheese for the ricotta. …
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