A delicious classic or cold pasta salad is a quintessential BBQ and picnic side dish. Here is an amazing collection of summer pasta salad recipes that will keep you happy all season. Side dishes for a BBQ There is more than one great side dish for summer. If your prepping for a BBQ or ...
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Pasta With Bacon, Tomato and Yellow Squash
The summer months are perfect for pasta salad, and one with yellow squash and tomatoes is garden-fresh. Plus who doesn't love bacon? This combo is fast, easy, and ultra-tasty. Summer Pasta Dinner It's summertime, and you want to put some color (and veggies!) in your meals. The bright ...
Pasta Bake: Ravioli with Fresh Tomatoes and Spinach
Ravioli Bake with 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 make a lot or a ...
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 ...
Cauliflower Mac 'n' Cheese
A healthier version of mac and cheese that replaces half the pasta with roasted cauliflower. Delicious and easy for a weeknight. If you're like me, this is your mantra today:I have been eating the best holiday food ever! But now it's time to get real. However, I don't want to. My ...
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 ...
