Tag: pasta

Creamy Bacon Fusilli

Creamy Bacon Fusilli

This is kind of like carbonara, but with a touch of cheese instead of an egg … and with tomatoes and onions, so really not a carbonara at all. I arrived at it in a bit of an odd way, taking a recipe for ‘Pasta with Roasted Garlic & Tomatoes’, […]

Orecchiette Napolitana

Orecchiette Napolitana

[Prep: <5 min / Cook: 20min] Ingredients – orecchiette (ear) or conchiglie (shell) pasta – 1 – 2 cups fresh spinach* (1/2 cup frozen chopped) – 2 cloves of garlic – 1/2 onion – 1 8oz can tomato sauce – dash of crushed red pepper flakes – salt & pepper […]

Kind-of-Greek Tortellini Salad

Hmm, yeah. No special notes on this one. I had no recipe and just bought a bunch of stuff at the grocery store with some sort of random vision and this is what happened. I was pleased. Hope you will be too. You can eat this right away (with the […]

Rachel’s Stove-top Mac and Cheese

It’s no secret how much I love the good ole’ blue box mac and cheese, but when I saw this recipe of Rachel’s the other day, I just had to try it. Rachel runs her own recipe blog called Homemade Today based on her belief that all food tastes better when you make […]

Hearty Beef and Spinach Pasta

Quick, dirty and festive, this all-in-one meal gets dinner done. Make it even heartier by adding chopped onions, peppers, tomatoes and mushrooms. [Prep: 5min / Cook: 30min] Ingredients – bow tie / farfalle pasta (about 2 cups dry) – ½lbs+ of ground beef (.2 – .3kg) – 8oz. can of tomato […]