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Roasted Garlic, Brown Butter and Parmesan Pasta (in 15 Minutes)

May 3, 2012 by Tiffany

You know how I love a 15 minute meal. Sometimes that’s all I have to pull dinner together. Such was the case the night I made this, but the inspiration for the dish had come a few months before.

When I went to Nashville for Blissdom, a group of us had dinner together the first night. Tricia from Once a Month Mom was our ring leader and she took us downtown to Demo’s Restaurant. I chose the spaghetti with brown butter garlic sauce. It tasted really good, but I had an inkling that I could make it better at home.

I was right! And it can be made in the time it takes to boil water and cook the pasta. Here’s what you’ll need: [Read more...]

Filed under: Main Dish, Pasta Tagged with 15 minute meal, angel hair, brown butter, garlic, parmesan, Pasta7 Comments

Roasted Red Pepper and Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta with Chicken

April 19, 2012 by Tiffany

My family loves creamy pasta dishes. They’re so quick and easy to make that we can have this favorite meal on a busy week night or cooked up after church on a Sunday.

This version has roasted red peppers, sun-dried tomatoes and chicken marinated in red wine vinegar and homemade Italian Herb Salt. Serve it up with a salad and a loaf of crusty bread with seasoned olive oil for dipping. Even better than going out to eat and much cheaper too! [Read more...]

Filed under: Chicken, Main Dish, Pasta Tagged with Chicken, creamy pasta, easy past dish, Pasta, penne, roasted red peppers, sun dried tomatoes3 Comments

Pepperoni Pizza Pasta – 15 Minute Meal

April 3, 2012 by Tiffany

I am a huge fan of the 15 minute meal. Some days, there just isn’t any more time than that to pull dinner together.

I’ve even got an eBook full of 15 minute meals. I frequently pull it out when I need something quick for dinner. A quick scan of the book, matched up with the items in my pantry will always yield a dinner idea.

This meal idea came from my mom. She had something similar when she ate out recently. I’m not sure what restaurant and I don’t know exactly how she fixed hers. There are many different ways you could take this, depending on what your family likes and what you’ve got in the pantry.

I happened to have a variety of bell peppers in the fridge, so I used them to add color and flavor. Doesn’t this pan of cooking peppers and onions look good?

Here’s what you’ll need for this quick meal: [Read more...]

Filed under: Main Dish, Pasta Tagged with 15 minute meal, basil, bell peppers, crushed tomatoes, Italian cheese, onion, oregano, penne, pepperoni2 Comments

Ravioli in the Slow Cooker

August 18, 2011 by Tiffany

This is so good and so easy! I think I actually like it better than cooking it on the stove. And it’s perfect for a day when you have a few minutes to pull dinner together in the afternoon. It only cooks about 3 hours (you can stretch it to about 5 if you cook on low). I love having dinner ready at dinner time, without doing any cooking right then.

I completely forgot to take photos of the finished dish, so you’ll have to make do with this ingredient photo.

I found the recipe at Crystal & Co. She used a jar of spaghetti sauce, but I didn’t have any, so I made up a quick homemade version. The hands-on prep is still super quick.

Ravioli in the Slow Cooker

Ingredients

2 bags frozen ravioli
28 oz can crushed tomatoes
6 oz can tomato paste
1 small onion, diced (optional)
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 tsp. dried oregano
1 tsp. dried basil
1 tsp. dried parsley
1 tsp. dried thyme
1/2 tsp. sugar
salt and pepper to taste
1 cup Mozzarella, shredded

Instructions

Pour the frozen ravioli into the slow cooker.
Stir the crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, onion, garlic and seasonings together in a bowl. Pour over the ravioli and stir to coat all the ravioli with sauce.
Cook on high for 3 hours or low for 5 hours.
About 20 minutes before you're ready to eat, sprinkle the ravioli with Mozzarella.

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Filed under: Crockpot, Main Dish, Pasta Tagged with homemade sauce, Italian, ravioli, slow cooker14 Comments

Ravioli with Tomato and Onion Sauce – 5 Ingredients!

June 14, 2011 by Tiffany

Dinner doesn’t get simpler than this.

If you’re blessed with tomatoes growing in your backyard, you could start the water, pick a couple tomatoes and have the sauce finished by the time the ravioli is done.

I didn’t have fresh tomatoes for this, so I used canned. The sweetness of the onions goes well with tomatoes. Cheese ravioli is a perfect base for the sauce.

Here’s what you’ll need. [Read more...]

Filed under: Main Dish, Pasta, vegetarian Tagged with fire roasted diced tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, onion, ravioli3 Comments

Pesto and Crushed Tomato Shells – 3 Ingredients, 15 Minutes

May 12, 2011 by Tiffany

So I just read the title and it is a bit misleading. This recipe contains no shell of tomato, crushed or otherwise.

It does have pesto, crushed tomatoes and pasta shells. And that’s it, except the mozzarella cheese sprinkled on top. Because you know how I can’t resist cheese.

15 minutes, start to finish and that includes time to boil the water. Throw a salad at it and call it dinner, and a good one too.

Here’s what you’ll need: [Read more...]

Filed under: Main Dish, Pasta Tagged with 15 minute meal, 3 ingredients, crushed tomatoes, Italian, Pasta, pesto, shells6 Comments

Bowtie Pasta with Italian Sausage and Bell Peppers

April 5, 2011 by Tiffany

There are nights when I stare into my pantry, wondering what I’m going to fix. On this particular night, the contents of the pantry made me consider making Italian Sausage with Bowties but I didn’t have any stewed tomatoes. I decided to change the recipe up a bit and came up with this.

Like the original, it’s a cinch to make and quick too. This one gets an added taste boost from the peppers. Here’s what you’ll need: [Read more...]

Filed under: Main Dish, Pasta Tagged with basil, bowties, crushed tomatoes, garlic, green pepper, half and half, Italian sausage, onions, oregano, Pasta, red pepper8 Comments

Bowtie Pasta with Roasted Red Peppers and Grilled Chicken

March 18, 2011 by Tiffany

We love pasta. Especially if it’s in a creamy sauce. This dish cooks in the time it takes to boil the water and cook the pasta. You can’t beat that.

I made it even faster, by using chicken I had grilled, sliced and frozen. A quick thaw in the microwave and it was ready to use.

Here’s what you’ll need: [Read more...]

Filed under: Chicken, Main Dish, Pasta Tagged with bowtie pasta, butter, Chicken, chicken broth, garlic, half and half, Italian, mozzarella cheese, roasted red peppers, seasoned salt12 Comments

Chipotle Lime Chicken Scampi

February 18, 2011 by Tiffany

A sprinkling of fresh, chopped parsley would have done wonders for that photo. Smart food photographers probably keep parsley in their fridge at all times.

Food photography faults aside, this dish was wonderful! I based it off of a recipe for Chipotle Shrimp Scampi, from my friend Joyce’s new recipe blog. (Her photo is better than mine.) One of my kids doesn’t like shrimp, so I decided to use the grilled chicken I had sliced and frozen. Since I was using meat that was already cooked, I didn’t need to use the chipotle rub that the original recipe called for. I used the sauce from chipotle peppers in adobo sauce that I had stored in the freezer.

Here’s what you’ll need: [Read more...]

Filed under: Chicken, Main Dish, Pasta Tagged with adobo sauce, angel hair, butter, Chicken, chipotle, garlic, lime juice, olive oil, wine13 Comments

Angel Hair with Red Onion and Black Olives

September 21, 2010 by Tiffany

This dish is full of flavor – garlic, red onion, black olives, basil, parsley and Parmesan all in white wine sauce. It pairs up beautifully with grilled chicken, although the chicken didn’t make it into the photo.

Best of all, it is quick to fix.

Here’s what you’ll need:

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