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Italian Sausage and Spinach Stuffed Shells

March 5, 2010 by Tiffany

I have a freezer full of pork that we got from my niece’s 4-H project. The place my sister took it to be processed doesn’t always give you what you ask for. I think it’s more what they are in the mood to make. The day they processed my order, they must have been in the mood for Italian Sausage. I’ve never seen so much of it!

With so much Italian sausage, I’m having to get creative to use it. I decided to give it a try in stuffed shells. The result tasted great and as a bonus, you get to cook once and eat twice. This recipe makes enough for two 9×13 pans! [Read more...]

Filed under: frozen food, Main Dish, Pasta Tagged with freezer food, Italian sausage, pork, ricotta, spaghetti sauce, spinach12 Comments

Pesto Tomato Ravioli

January 27, 2010 by Tiffany

This is one of those embarrassingly easy meals. But it’s also good, so I’ll share it with you. All my kids love pesto sauce and pasta, so we ate this up. You only need 3 ingredients and long enough to boil the ravioli and you’ll have dinner on the table. [Read more...]

Filed under: Main Dish, Pasta, vegetarian Tagged with pesto, ravioli, tomatoes13 Comments

Chicken Tortellini with Snow Peas

January 14, 2010 by Tiffany

It’s been a while since I made this. It was the result of a mini pantry challenge that I was doing to avoid going to the grocery. I pulled the ingredients out of the fridge and freezer and created this. I think I was out of garlic and that’s why I used Italian dressing in place of oil and garlic. I wasn’t sure that it would work, but it did. This post is going to be less of an actual recipe, and more of how to put your own make-shift meal together. [Read more...]

Filed under: Chicken, Main Dish, Pasta Tagged with Chicken, chicken broth, half & half, parmesan, roasted red pepper, snow peas, tortellini4 Comments

Baked Pasta with Cauliflower and Cheese

December 1, 2009 by Tiffany

baked pasta with cauliflower done

This is comfort food at it’s best. This recipe is adapted from New Recipes From Moosewood Restaurant cookbook. It makes a huge dish of pasta, even for my family, so you may want to cut the recipe in half. [Read more...]

Filed under: Casserole, Main Dish, Pasta, vegetarian Tagged with cauliflower, mozzarella, Pasta, tomatoes16 Comments

Bacon and Tomato Pasta

October 8, 2009 by Tiffany

bacon and tomato pasta done

I cooked up a bunch of bacon the other night, intending to put it all back in the freezer for another time. My youngest son was begging to eat it for dinner though. Since I wasn’t in the mood for breakfast for dinner, I decided to add it to a pasta dish. We ate every last bit of this. There were no leftovers at all. I guess they liked it [Read more...]

Filed under: Main Dish, Pasta Tagged with bacon, basil, butter, garlic, half & half, olive oil, onion, Pasta, tomato18 Comments

Bowtie Festival

September 29, 2009 by Tiffany

Bowtie Festival done

I was going for a copy cat version of Johnny Carino’s Bowtie Festival when I created this. Several months ago, I created Penne Gorgonzola, which came very close to the restaurant dish. This Bowtie Festival was excellent, but it was not exactly like the restaurant version. Something was missing, but we couldn’t quite place it. That said, I will make it again. How can you go wrong with pasta, parmesan and bacon? Wonderful stuff. [Read more...]

Filed under: Main Dish, Pasta Tagged with bacon, bowtie pasta, butter, garlic, half & half, onion, parmesan, red pepper, tomato10 Comments

Mac and Cheddar with Broccoli

September 17, 2009 by Tiffany

mac and cheddar with broccoli done

Creamy, cheesy and satisfying. This can be a meatless meal or a side dish. I altered this a little bit from a Rachel Ray recipe. I used a bit less cheese than she called for and made a few other minor adjustments. [Read more...]

Filed under: Main Dish, Pasta, vegetarian Tagged with broccoli, cheddar, Pasta11 Comments

Cheese Ravioli with Pesto, Red Peppers and Grilled Chicken

September 2, 2009 by Tiffany

Cheese Ravioli with Pesto

Oh, this was good. The freshly made pesto, sweet sauteed red peppers and onions, creamy cheese ravioli and grilled chicken were divine together. I wish you could smell it, because it was just heavenly. It was also super easy and quick to make. I don’t have an ingredient picture for you this time, though. Even while the ravioli was cooking, I was still deciding what would go into the dish.

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Filed under: Chicken, Main Dish, Pasta Tagged with basil, Chicken, onion, pesto, ravioli, red pepper7 Comments

Homemade Pesto Sauce without a Food Processor

September 2, 2009 by Tiffany

pesto sauce ingr

I had a hankering for pesto the other day. I don’t have a food processor and my attempt years ago to use a blender for pesto was a failure. But I figured that pesto was being made before electricity and modern gadgets, so it must be possible. Earlier in the summer I had searched online and found someone who had made pesto using a mezzaluna, a half-moon shaped knife.

So, armed with a sharp knife (no mezzaluna in my kitchen) and a few handfuls of fresh basil leaves from the garden, I proceeded to make this wonderful concoction known as pesto. You probably noticed that there are a few ingredients missing from that picture. I did use garlic, but it didn’t find it’s way into the photo. Unfortunately, I had no pine nuts or walnuts, and since it was 4:30 in the afternoon when I decided to start this experiment, I wasn’t going to run out to the store to buy any. What I found out is pine nuts are not essential – good, probably better with than without, but not essential.

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Filed under: Pasta Tagged with basil, garlic, Italian, olive oil, parmesan10 Comments

Parmesan Fettucini

August 28, 2009 by Tiffany

Parmesan fettucini done

I love it when something so simple tastes so delicious. Three ingredients plus a shake of black pepper and you’ve got a super side dish. Or, keep supper really simple by adding a tossed salad and calling it a meal – a good one, at that.

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