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Category Archives: Italian
Penne arrabbiata 5/17/24
This is a recipe that I found on Serious Eats and adapted to our tastes. Here’s the original website https://www.seriouseats.com/penne-pasta-arrabbiata-sauce-recipe. We changed it up a bit because we like our spiciness coming from various sources—the red pepper flakes for overall … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, Italian, Pasta, Recipes, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Weeknight dinners
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Penne with mushrooms and asparagus. 5/9/24
I really like the look of penne and asparagus. The asparagus mimics the shape of the penne. Plus this is super simple and quick to make. While the water is heating up for the pasta is plenty of time to … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, Italian, Methods, Pasta, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Weeknight dinners
Tagged asparagus, mushrooms, pasta, penne
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Gochujang shrimp fettucine. 4/3/24
Korea meets Italy in this new recipe we tried tonight. This is a really simple and quick dish. In the time it takes to get the water to boiling and cook the pasta you can make the sauce. Although John … Continue reading
Posted in Asian, Easy, Italian, Pasta, pescatarian, Recipes, Shellfish, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
Tagged pasta, shrimp
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Fettucine with red sauce. 4/24/24
Last week I made some spicy tomato sauce to serve with bucatini. We had some left over sauce so I decided to go the pasta route again on Wednesday. Since there was not enough sauce left for another dinner I … Continue reading
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Bucatini with spicy tomato sauce. 4/20/24
Bucatini is a thick strand of pasta with a hole in it, sort of like long spaghetti tubes. This bucatini was thicker than I like but we were low on pasta and the strands went well with the sauce. I … Continue reading
Pizza. 4/15/24
It has been a while since I posted anything and that is because the miserable people on the plane coming back from Amsterdam had a wide variety of respiratory ailments that they did not bother to try to keep from … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, Italian, Pork, take-out, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
Tagged Pizza, pork sausage
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Too much sauce! 11/1/23
I had some tomato sauce left over from last week’s pasta meal. Once I put it in a pan to reheat John and I agreed that it looked like it wasn’t enough for the amount of pasta that he was … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Italian, Pasta, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Weeknight dinners
Tagged Spaghetti
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Spaghetti with tomato sauce. 10/24/23
Originally we were supposed to be having chickpea stew for dinner. When we looked for the ditalini we discovered that it had been used. So, what to do? I decided on making a quick tomato sauce and using the pasta … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, Italian, Pasta, Recipes, Uncategorized, Vegetarian, Weeknight dinners
Tagged Spaghetti, tomato sauce
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Light shrimp scampi with rice and broccoli. 10/20/23
We have not made this in quite a while and we were pleasantly surprised at how good and easy it was. Since we are not strictly on our diet regimen we added 2 teaspoons of butter to the sauce at … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, Italian, pescatarian, Recipes, rice, Shellfish, Special occasion, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
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Stuffed peppers. 10/18/23
During the third week in September I made a batch of meaty spaghetti sauce. I divided it in thirds and froze two containers. Tonight I made stuffed pepper with my remaining third. I mixed the ground beef and tomato sauce … Continue reading
Posted in American, Beef, Italian, Kitchen tips, rice, Vegetables
Tagged bell pepper, ground beef
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