The summer months are perfect for pasta with yellow squash and tomatoes. Plus who doesn't love bacon? This post may include affiliate links. For more information please see my disclosure agreement. It's summertime, and you want to put some color (and veggies!) in your meals. The bright ...
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Ravioli Bake with Fresh Tomatoes and Spinach
Ravioli Bake with Fresh Tomatoes and Spinach - a one dish meal packed with greens, cheese, pasta and flavorful tomatoes. An easy weeknight dinner everyone will love. • • • Baked pastas are one of my favorite, crowd-pleasing, go-to dinners. I can use homemade or jarred sauces, add veggies or not, and ...
Pistachio Pesto Pasta
Pistachio Pesto Pasta with shredded zucchini makes a great dinner, to-go picnic staple or the perfect packed lunch. Take it from me, adding pistachios to a pesto sauce rocks an everyday pasta dish like no other ingredient. With some fresh zucchini and bright pop of lemon and arugula you'll want to ...
Italian Tomato and Eggplant Skillet Pasta
Italian Tomato and Eggplant Skillet Pasta packs in fresh tomatoes, eggplant and even green beans to make a veggie-packed dinner. Fresh tomatoes, eggplant and even green beans make this veggie-packed pasta delicious, in under an hour I might add. I blended half of the vegetables to make a quick ...
Easy Sausage Stuffed Shells Recipe
Easy Sausage Stuffed Shells are loaded with meaty goodness, eggplant, spinach, tomatoes and cheese – making for the ultimate weeknight dinner. • • • This stuffed shells recipe is loaded with both flavorful sausage and vegetables. That is a balanced meal if I ever saw one! This post includes ...
Fresh Green Pesto Pasta with Lemon Ricotta Cream
Fresh Green Pesto Pasta With Lemon Ricotta Cream makes me swoon. It's is the perfect way to get a fresh taste of summer using winter ingredients during chilly months. We are right smack in the middle of that time when baby greens, herbs and veggies have started emerging from the earth; but the days ...
Easy Squash And Pancetta Pasta
Easy Squash and Pancetta Pasta is anything-but-basic. Italian bacon and tender, sweet squash make for a sophisticated, but simply delicious dinner. Tasty dinners come in all shapes and sizes. You can actually choose the shape of this one! Just pick a pasta, your favorite shape, and toss ...
Herbed Vegetable Pasta with Artichokes
Herbed vegetable pasta with artichokes is bursting with fresh veggies and zesty herbs. It's a go-to dinner for Meatless Mondays, or What-To-Eat Wednesdays! • • • My spring pasta dinner is as easy as boiling some water, adding veggies, a quick vinaigrette and poof. Olives, fresh tomatoes and red ...
Crunchy Chicken Noodle Salad
Crunchy Chicken Noodle Salad with juicy oranges, radishes and snow peas makes eating salad your new favorite thing! By adding some crunchy ramen noodles to this Asian-inspired salad, you get a more-filling, fun meal. There are a few recipes for ramen noodle salads out there, using different ...
Sun Dried Tomato Pesto
Surprise! This savory herb sauce isn't your standard fare. Sun Dried Tomato Pesto combines classic basil pesto flavors with tangy tomatoes. Pesto, packed with basil and Parmesan, is summer's generous gift to my belly. Of course I eat it on pasta, sometimes with a splash of cream or ricotta–but I ...
Arugula Hazelnut Pesto
Hey Basil, you don't own pesto! This arugula hazelnut pesto variation is out of this world, and may be your go-to summer sensation. I'm not starting an argument here, but really, Basil, take a break. You are fantastic in my Classic Pesto, you're tasty with tomatoes, and you do pizza a great ...
Mushroom Ravioli Soup
The broth for this rich Mushroom Ravioli Soup is steeped with dried porcinis and shallots, served with mushroom, ricotta and Parmesan dumplings. The entire dish is impressive and completely comforting. Here in New York City we have had a little snow. 26.8 inches to be exact. That's just ...
Creamy Chicken Mushroom Pasta
Creamy Chicken Mushroom Pasta touts plenty of flavor, sweet peas and can be made in minutes. Use a rotisserie chicken to make this quick meal. I usually don't call out "30-minute" recipes. Those weeknight meals so many publications and sites advertise. Most recipes take more than 30 minutes because ...