Baked Pumpkin Ziti
Every once in a while I like to flex my cooking muscles by attempting a complex recipe. Something completely from scratch that is a little more difficult that what I normally whip up on a Tuesday...
View ArticleHeart Pasta and Homemade Breadsticks
For Valentine’s Day MIL gave us a bag full goodies. Two of those goodies were heart shaped pasta and Dave’s Gourmet heirloom tomato sauce. We decided to have them for dinner last night. I also made...
View ArticleGreen Food and Baileys Buttercream
Happy day after St. Patrick’s Day! Did everyone have fun last night? A little tooo much fun maybe? Benzo and I had a quiet evening at home with lots of yummy food. And most of it green! We started...
View ArticleArtichoke & Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta
Last Saturday Benzo and I vowed to come straight home after church group and cook dinner instead of going out. We’re trying to be good for the next few weeks about not eating out much, since the past...
View ArticleRigatoni Peperona-ta-ta
Good evening. It’s getting a bit late but I wanted to share tonight’s dinner. I made Rigatoni Peperonata from the August issue of Real Simple. It. Was. So. Good. It was very easy to pull together....
View ArticleNoodle-y Lettuce Wraps
So if you read my meal plan for this week you know that I made lettuce wraps for dinner on Sunday night. I actually found the recipe through the Whole Foods “app” on Benzo’s new iPhone. Neither one...
View ArticleSpinach Baked Ziti
As I mentioned on Sunday, I spent last Saturday cooking up some meals to freeze in advance before our Baby Boy arrives. First I made two homemade frozen pizzas. And then I also made two pans of...
View ArticleSun-Dried Tomato Cream Sauce
Last weekend I whipped up a batch of sun-dried tomato cream sauce in my Vitamix. I had a carton of heavy cream in the fridge plus I’d been wanting to use the Vitamix for something other than a...
View ArticleEasy and Impressive Baked Ziti
I’ve made this recipe three times in the last couple months so I had to share it! The first time was for family at Christmas, then I made two pans for families who recently had babies. Each time it...
View ArticleLemon Arugula Pasta
This is a really delicious vegetarian pasta dish we made a few weeks ago (and have on the menu for later this week) with good-for-you greens. A friend actually made this dish for us and brought it...
View ArticleRoasted Cherry Tomato Pasta
The cherry tomato plant in our garden would be 10 feet tall if we had stakes that high. What is it about the small tomato plants that makes them grow like crazy? We grew those small yellow pear...
View ArticleEasy and Impressive Baked Ziti
I’ve made this recipe three times in the last couple months so I had to share it! The first time was for family at Christmas, then I made two pans for families who recently had babies. Each time it...
View ArticleLemon Arugula Pasta
This is a really delicious vegetarian pasta dish we made a few weeks ago (and have on the menu for later this week) with good-for-you greens. A friend actually made this dish for us and brought it...
View ArticleRoasted Cherry Tomato Pasta
The cherry tomato plant in our garden would be 10 feet tall if we had stakes that high. What is it about the small tomato plants that makes them grow like crazy? We grew those small yellow pear...
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