Category Archives: pasta

Melanzana Balsamica (Pickled Balsamic Eggplant)

Pickled Balsamic Eggplant

A couple of weeks ago, I was scouring the farmers market looking for inspiration. My spring canning class was coming up and I wanted to show the class something a little bit different in the pickle category – something that might inspire them to think of vegetable pickles “outside the jar”.  Something that would lend [...]

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Passover Gnocchi Pasta

Passover Gnocchi - Shaping

I think I can get in one more Passover recipe to share with you, this week. As you know, Gnocchi is probably my favorite pasta – the one I judge all Italian restaurants, and even cookbooks, by. So, when Amy of Ess Eppis (Yiddish for Eat Something) piped up on Twitter that she’d found a [...]

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Gnocchi & A Quickie Pasta Sauce

Today’s post is for The Secret Recipe Club, created by Amanda of Amanda’s Cookin’. This is how it works: Every month, you get to scour the blog of another member of the club (assigned to you by Amanda), and pick out and cook or bake any recipe from that person’s blog. And of course, it’s [...]

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Angel Hair Pasta with Pink Alfredo Sauce & Buitoni Giveaway!

Well, I’m back from Mousetown, having Food Blog Forumed (yes, I know it’s not a word – sheesh!) with some of the finest people I know – fellow food bloggers, mostly from right here in Florida! I learned a lot and more importantly, got to see some wonderful people, face-to-face, who I’ve mostly only tweeted [...]

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Pasta Fagioli e Cavolo* (Pasta With Beans & Kale)

I’m starting to warm up to kale. It took awhile, and some peer pressure. And guilt. One of my favorite ways to disguise ->ahem!<- incorporate kale in meals, is to add it to pasta. We do love pasta around here, and I’ve got to admit that – aside from calling out for pizza – it’s [...]

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Kasha Pilaf Varnishkes for Share Our Holiday Table

This post is part of Share Our Holiday Table, a seven-day, online progressive dinner series that we hope will encourage you to support and donate to Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry Campaign during this critical holiday period. I’m honored to be one of more than 50 bloggers who are participating. If you’ve been following [...]

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Quick Orzo Pasta & Veggie Skillet

It’s quite embarrassing that I haven’t posted anything in nearly two whole weeks, so let me break the ice a bit with this quickie one-pan meal. It uses fresh vegetables and another fun pasta shape – orzo. Orzo is a small pasta, shaped rather like large rice grains, and particularly well-suited to my favorite one-pan [...]

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Recipe Monday: Farfalle Chickpea Toss

There’s more to pasta than spaghetti and elbow macaroni, you know, and farfalle – or bow tie pasta – is one of those fun and versatile shapes that everyone loves. Here’s a way to make a quick, yet satisfying, meal with ingredients straight out of the pantry. This is one of our favorites because it’s [...]

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Recipe Monday: Roasted Garlic & Spinach Pasta

If you skipped yesterday’s posts hoping I’d move on to a happier subject today, you’re in luck! I’m on a healthy cooking kick lately, most of which seems to be occurring over the weekend. If something works out, Mondays are the logical time to share that with you. Mostly so I’m forced to write it [...]

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Damn! It Takes Me A Whole Hour Vegetable Lasagna

I’ve been kind of hanging out on Twitter, lately. Kind of a lot. And through something called “Re-Tweets”, that I don’t fully understand, I discovered a site called In Jennie’s Kitchen and her 47-Minute Spinach Lasagna. Her inspiration was a Twitter challenge. It sounds – and looks – delicious, and I was intrigued. After all, [...]

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