Last night’s dinner comes to you purely out of a mishap at the stove. When I set out to cook dinner yesterday, I actually wasn’t even planning on blogging it, but after my “error”, after gasping and thinking “oh my goodness, how am I going to fix this?”, I thought to myself “if this recipe…
Category: Pasta
Mediterranean Bowtie Pasta Dish
How about a pasta dish that’s sauce comes from nothing more than the liquid of a jar of pitted Kalamata olives and a jar of marinated artichoke hearts? That and 2 tablespoons of olive oil was all I used to make the sauce for this scrumptious bowtie pasta dish. Once my grape and mini heirloom…
Cheese Tortellini and Fresh Spinach Topped with Ground Turkey Marinara Sauce
Sometimes Sundays call for a simple supper and sometimes it’s fun to spend the afternoon in the kitchen cooking on a Sunday. This particular Sunday called for a simple supper for me because I spent the afternoon at Barnes & Noble with Kylie for a book signing. Keegan Allen of Pretty Little Liars (one of…
Italian Sausage, Mini Heirloom Tomato, Garlic and Kale Rigatoni
Since I only used a couple Italian sausages from a package yesterday, I wanted to make something for dinner tonight that would ensure I could finish off the rest of the package. Also in my refrigerator were a couple packages of tomatoes that I wanted to use up – one 16 ounce package of mini…
Sugar Snap Pea, Endive and Prosciutto Spring Pasta Recipe
How do the following ingredients sound to you – sugar snap peas, endive, prosciutto and gorgonzola cheese, along with caramelized red onion and sliced garlic? Those were the ingredients I decided I’d mix together to make a spring pasta dish. I opened a bag of sugar snap peas to have with my lunch today, which…
Roasted Garlic Olive Oil and White Wine Bucatini
Tonight, I made a dinner without chopping, mincing or grating a single thing. This was about the easiest dinner I’ve yet to make. Some night’s it’s nice to enjoy a home cooked meal that doesn’t take much in the way of preparation, but still feels like you put some time and effort in. I was…
Marinated Artichoke, Sun-dried Tomato and Boursin Stuffed Chicken Breast over Wheat Penne Pasta
Last night’s chicken was so good, I wanted to repurpose it for tonight’s dinner. I chose to make a pasta sauce out of what was left in the jars of marinated artichokes and sun-dried tomatoes in olive oil. I poured the two jars into a large skillet, adding a tablespoon of minced garlic (from a…
Olive Tapenade Chicken Breast
My dinner idea tonight came from an urge to clean out the pantry of things leftover that I bought to use for entertaining and hadn’t. A couple of those things were jars of olive tapenade to use as a topping for crostini and jars of antipasto I wanted to have on hand to place on…
Roasted Cremini Mushroom Linguini
Looking to satisfy a craving for an earthy, rustic dinner, I decided that the cremini mushrooms staring back at me from the bottom shelf on my refrigerator were what I’d start with. At the market this afternoon, I picked up a package of boneless chicken thighs to use for our pasta dish, but I felt…
Tuscan Antipasto Bowtie Pasta
Last Monday, I hosted my annual book club Christmas Party. While I was putting things away after the festivities and was placing the lid back on the jar of Tuscan Antipasto I had as part of my cheese platter, I came to the conclusion that this would make an excellent sauce and topping for pasta….
Sunshine and Savory 