Pesto & Sauces
Creamy Taco Bolognese
Yes – it’s Fusion Time. I love to experience flavor combinations and styles from all kinds of regions and cuisines. Mashed potatoes the way Grandma used to make them are still delicious, yet a bit boring. (Sorry Momo!) People have come to expect more exotic food combos like wasabi mashed potatoes or kimchi quesadillas. We…
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Homemade Gnocchi with Chunky Meat Sauce
Have you “dug out” yet?? You know…the snow! The snow came and went here in a hurry…in about three days flat. We were though, for those few glorious days, transported to a winter wonderland. Hot chocolate, no schedule, sleeping in, wet clothes everywhere, eating homemade gnocchi, & happy, smiling, tired kids! It was fun while…
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Classic Marinara Sauce
For some reason at the beginning of every year, I feel like getting back to the basics. Do you have a Classic Marinara Sauce that is your go-to? That fresh, bright red, garlicky, basil yumminess of a sauce? Something you can always have on hand for a quick dinner, or a great base for a…
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Creamy Roasted Red Pepper Pasta
I love this time of year. That sweet spot between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Some days you succumb to comfort food and others you are “watching it” because of “the Holidays”…playing games with yourself because you know what’s comin’. I admit it. I have that “push-pull” with my eating angels and devils. I can justify both…
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Southwest Chicken Pasta with Avocado Sauce
AVOCADOS! Is there anyone out there who doesn’t like them? They are one of my very favorite vegetables (?) packing all the nutritional goods your body needs. Only they are not vegetables – they are fruit! 🙂 It’s an idea popular with food bloggers but making an avocado “sauce” for my Southwest Chicken Pasta…
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Sun Dried Tomato Pesto Pasta
July 4th is just around the corner and it’s time to get your bbq-poolside-lakeside-firework-picnic plans together! Whatever you do, the colors red, white, and blue must be involved. All things Patriotic. Although I did finally have to retire my cute flag bikini. (hahaha, right! I hope my sister read that) It’s easy around our house…
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Everyday Basil Parsley Pesto
Ahhh….summer. The schedules are looser and the days are longer. I’m finding myself washing a lot of dishes so far too…which is a good thing. It means there is lots of cooking, eating and entertaining going on around here. Summer is also a time when I pretend to have a green thumb. Actually, I’m making…
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Simple Pesto White Wine Sauce with Bay Scallops
Yeeesssss! Yippee! I’m literally hopping around the kitchen. (note the Easter Bunny reference :)) I can’t tell you how happy I am to share this Simple Pesto White Wine Sauce with Bay Scallops. Please don’t pass-over it. (OK…Enough!) It would, though, make a fun side dish sometime this week. What is better than a combination of garlic,…
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Tuscan Style Clam Sauce
This is one of my oldest pasta recipes and favorite pasta dishes of all time! PERIOD. Making this brings me back to the early days of The Pasta Shoppe. John and I made pasta for dinner almost every night. Our experimenting ran the gamut. It was back way before “watching carbs” was even on people’s…
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Sweet and Spicy Sesame Noodles
Welcome to March! Phew! We made it through a brutally cold February and I think we are almost in the clear. Looks like we may have one more possible snow day this week. We’ll see. At least we now know all the good sledding sites! Regardless, I’m moving on to the month of Good Luck…
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