From the category archives:

Pasta

Grilled Tomato Pasta

July 30, 2010

I guess it has been tomato week here. Earlier this week I posted fresh salsa and how I grill tomatoes and today I have a grilled tomato pasta for you. Summertime meals to me mean simple recipes, using fresh and in season ingredients. This recipe is just that. It is simple yet full of flavor. Grilled Tomato [...]

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Cowboy Spaghetti

June 7, 2010

We love pasta in our house. It is usually a quick, easy, and frugal meal that the whole family enjoys. However, we like variety. We enjoy pasta dishes like my easy ragu, my quick and easy pasta sauce, and my taco pasta, but we like to experiment with other kinds of pasta and spaghettis as well. So, [...]

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Pasta with Easy Ragu

May 26, 2010

If you haven’t noticed, I liked quick and easy meals. I love to cook, but for most days, I need meals that I can put on the table in very little time. However, just because I need quick and easy meals, does not mean that I want them to come from a box or jar. [...]

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Spaghetti Carbonara

May 13, 2010

I love spaghetti carbonara. It is a perfect quick and easy meal. I have another Spaghetti Carbonara on this site. It is a great recipe and my family enjoys it. However, I think I may have a new favorite Spaghetti Carbonara. Since going gluten free, I find myself tweaking and trying different things with main [...]

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Creamy Pasta and Spinach

April 18, 2010

I have recently read a lot about Spaghetti A La Philly on several other food sites. It is basically spaghetti that has been doctored up by using cream cheese. I liked the basic idea because it was a quick and easy recipe, but I thought it needed a little more to it. I thought I [...]

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Skillet Tuna Casserole

April 8, 2010

This is not your typical tuna casserole. In fact, this isn’t really a tuna casserole at all. If anything this is a fancy tuna casserole, if there is such a thing. I don’t like regular tuna casserole. I have stayed away from most of them. However, when I saw a recipe for tuna skillet, I [...]

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Chicken Lasagna

September 7, 2009

I posted about this recipe several months ago when I posted about a lunch I took to my husband’s office. Several of you asked for me to post the recipe and I did not get it done. I am sorry about that. But today, I finally have it for you. The main reason I never [...]

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Whole Wheat Pasta

June 27, 2009

My family is finally getting used to whole wheat pasta. It only took about a year, until the complaining stopped. So either they got used to it or they decided that I was not going to stop serving it. What I have found though is that they like it mixed. I mix it about half [...]

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Emerils Basic Red Sauce

June 25, 2009

I know a lot of people buy store bought spaghetti or red sauce, like Ragu and Prego. In the past I have purchased it some, but I have never been a big fan of it. Now that I am trying to stay away from packaged and processed things, I never buy it. I have a [...]