Pasta

Good news! I recently purchased a new cookbook that was put out by America’s Test Kitchen. It’s called The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook and it’s got over 500 recipes that look rather incredible. I was looking for something that would expand my horizons and that would offer some recipes from a different culture. This book looks […]

Do you want a nice pasta dish? Good. All you need to do is pick up a select few ingredients the next time you’re at the supermarket and spend 20 minutes in the kitchen. When you’re finished, you’ll be enjoying a very flavorful and robust fettuccine pasta that’ll fill you right up. That’s for sure. […]

This is the third and final recipe that we’ve enjoyed during our “shrimp kick.” It seems like we’ve had a lot of shrimp lately. I do love it, but there’s so much more food in the world to enjoy, so we’ll have to move onto some of that. But let me just tell you this […]

As I mentioned in my earlier pasta post, I had a total of two similar recipes to share this week. The first was a really nice spaghetti with lemon, black pepper and ricotta and this is a tasty bow tie pasta with a creamy corn, thyme and Parmesan cheese sauce. While I enjoyed them equally, […]

Laura and I have been working our ways through Curtis Stone‘s cookbook titled Good Food, Good Life and we bumped into a few really nice pasta dishes. The first one consists of spaghetti and ricotta cheese, which I’ll share below. The second one uses bow tie pasta, along with some other pretty great ingredients. I’ll […]

With our area warming up this spring, I’ve been craving something lighter than the soups and stews Laura and I have been making for so many months. I’m not sure what it is, but I’ve just got this itch for pasta, breakfasts and sandwiches. I think the same thing happened to me last year and […]

Every so often, I crave a huge serving of pasta that tastes really good and that’s going to fill me up. I’m not sure how this craving comes about, but when it does, I don’t mess around. I go big. The Recipe This pasta dish brings whatever it is you’re used to all the way […]

For some reason, I don’t think of orzo as pasta. I’m not sure what I consider it – perhaps rice or some sort of a whole grain. I know it’s made out of semolina flour, just like regular pasta, but in my eyes, it’s much more versatile than what we normally cook with. In the […]

If there’s one thing I really try to avoid, it’s washing pots and pans. The problem is, many recipes call for many tools to be used – pots and pans being a good majority of them. I think I’ve come to terms with it, but when a recipe comes along that only requires one holding […]

Putting this recipe together was easier than I thought it would be. When I first browsed through the instructions, I saw some ingredients that I don’t work with a lot. Shrimp and kalamata olives being two of them. And for whatever reason, whenever I see broth included in a recipe ingredient list, I think things […]