Category Archives: Pasta

All-week Soup 10/12/19

Posted on October 13, 2019 by

Back at the beginning of the week I made what I called a last salute to summer-fresh vegetables with garbanzo beans and soup pasta. We had quite a bit leftover so during the week John ate it for lunch a … Continue reading →

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🐟 Penne with tuna and snow peas. 9/28/19

Posted on September 27, 2019 by

Thursday’s dinner was another “pantry” dinner.  Some pasta, a can of tuna, olive oil, an herb, and a vegetable. Although I used fresh snow peas and tarragon, it could just as easily have been made with frozen peas and dried … Continue reading →

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🥬 Pasta and chickpea soup. 9/21/19

Posted on September 21, 2019 by

Autumn is coming even though here in Northern California it is supposed to be near to 100F in the coming week. So I am thinking warm, cozy soups. I have lots of warm weather dishes that I am so eager … Continue reading →

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🥩 Linguine with meat sauce and salad. 9/19/19

Posted on September 20, 2019 by

In deference to my diet I made less pasta and filled half my bowl with salad. I made the spaghetti sauce in July and I do not know the exact amounts of the ingredients so I could not assign a … Continue reading →

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A really ugly looking dinner. 8/20/19

Posted on August 21, 2019 by

We have a lot of Aunt Ruby’s German Green tomatoes so I made tomato sauce. About two weeks ago I ruined it by putting in red tomato paste turning it into brown sludge. Why not make my own tomato paste … Continue reading →

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Green tomato sauce. 8/7/19

Posted on August 8, 2019 by

Our daughter is growing a type of tomato called Aunt Ruby’s German Green. Many of these tomatoes are real bruisers and weigh in around a pound each. The flesh is a bright green. We have a lot of them so … Continue reading →

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Semi-fresh spaghetti sauce. 7/27/19

Posted on July 28, 2019 by

I used my last container of frozen spaghetti sauce for our dinner on Saturday night. Knowing that we would be facing a tomato glut by this point in the summer, I filled each container only half full so that my … Continue reading →

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