Quick Pasta Fagiole

A weekend of over-indulging on food at the Greek festival, bachelorette party fare and an awesome brunch made me
want to get my act together on Sunday night for dinner.  I was craving something filling and with pasta, so I needed to get some veggies in there too.  I remembered seeing some recipes for pasta fagiole [...]

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Vietnamese Rice Noodle Salad

This rice noodle salad is a great cold noodle salad perfect for summer.  The key is not to overcook the noodles, which can happen in an
instant.  If you follow the directions below they’ll turn out just fine.  This salad is great with chicken, and would be really good with this lemongrass beef recipe, or a [...]

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Baked Penne with Zucchini, Corn and Basil

Now, you know I don’t usually like baked pastas, and this isn’t so South Beach, but something about the fresh zucchini, corn, tomatoes
and basil caught my eye…plus it used some of  little ingredients I had to use up.  I saw this recipe when I was flipping through a Williams-Sonoma catalog and it caught my eye [...]

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Orzo Pasta Salad

I forgot to post this recipe with my Syrian Lamb Kebabs, which is a shame because they went so well together.  This salad was made up
entirely of leftovers, which made me really proud, and it tasted great.  I really recommend you use orzo, which is my favorite pasta shape for pasta salad…it’s really chewy and [...]

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Jaime Oliver’s Eggplant Parmesan

I wish I took a picture of this right after it came out of the oven because it was beautiful.  The picture I managed to take after the
carnage is not so beautiful, but you get the point.  I made this Eggplant Parmesan last night from a Jaime Oliver recipe, deceptive in its simplicity.  There’s no [...]

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Greek Mahi Mahi and Toasted Orzo with Fennel

It seems a little odd that I don’t have any post-Fourth of July recipes, but I didn’t have to cook a bit over the weekend.  Last Thursday I
was able to cook and put together a meal to eat after tennis with some friends.  The meal was great because I was able to get everything pre-assembled [...]

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Braised Noodles with Chicken and Vegetables

Here’s a good one for while I’m away.  These noodles make a quick dinner on a busy workday. Shanghai-style noodles are thick, dense wheat-flour noodles that have a chewy texture. You can also use Chinese-style egg noodles; cook them for only 1 minute and use only 6 Tbs. of the chicken stock for braising the [...]

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Pasta Ponza

Giada deLaurentis has been very good to me lately. I made her Butternut Squash Rigatoni and Prawns recipe, which was delicious, and now this recipe, which was easy and also totally delicious.  You simply roast some cherry tomatoes with breadcrumbs in the oven, then toss that mixture with penne, Pecorino Romano and parsley for [...]

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Baked Penne with Roasted Vegetables

I’m in Spain this week, so this will be the only recipe I post.  When I get back I’ll hopefully have some recipes and pictures to share.  The weather is warming up, so I figured this would be my last chance to post this sort of cool weather recipe.  It makes great leftovers and would [...]

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Alla Crazy Bastard Pasta

Who can resist the name?  Apparently this pasta was inspired by the punchline in a New Yorker cartoon and that’s pretty much what drew me into this recipe, which is adapted from Food & Wine.  This is a pretty healthy dish with lots of greens, tomatoes, and a light, tangy, goat cheese sauce.  I’ll admit- [...]

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