Category Archives: Pasta

Penne with meat and mushroom sauce – 5/1/17

Here it is the last of the ground beef from the freezer. This incarnation has it as an ingredient in a spaghetti sauce. As usual if you want to make the dish vegetarian omit the ground beef. It is just … Continue reading

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Lamb chops in Utah – 4/28/17

Once we got to Utah, we looked in the freezer. I feel like we need to eat what we have.  Most of the proteins lend themselves to the hunk of meat, vegetable, starch kind of dinner. Ergo, lamb chops, couscous, … Continue reading

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Penne with asparagus – 4/27/17

Hello from Southern Utah! We left on Wednesday around noon and stayed overnight on the road. Had some spicy Buffalo chicken wings at Chili’s for dinner. Tonight’s dinner is the vegetarian dinner we were supposed to have Tuesday. I know … Continue reading

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Last minute Thursday – Potstickers and salad – 4/20/17

I had to rustle this up out of the refrigerator and the freezer after we returned home around 8PM. Tonight was our grandson’s first band concert. The traffic was brutal on the way over and merely bad on the way … Continue reading

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Chickpea stew- Vegan/Vegetarian Tuesday – 4/18/17

My daughter told that she had received some advice about getting more people to read your food blog. More pictures! And recipes! Hmmm, I almost never put in recipes because I don’t make things that are recipe driven usually. But … Continue reading

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Chicken (or no chicken) Monday, new style – 4/17/17

Note: this dish could easily be made vegan by omitting the Parmesan and substituting the chicken with tofu, beans, or chickpeas Today instead of cooking two chicken breasts, some starch, and a vegetable, I made this dish instead. I think … Continue reading

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Lazy spaghetti and meatballs – 3/7/17

Yes, this is a go-to dinner when there is not enough time to make something else. I think I need to take the time to make some meatballs and freeze them instead of using these frozen ones from a bag. … Continue reading

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DInner for one – Pasta with mushrooms, kale, and onions – 3/5/17

I see the pasta is a little blurry due to steam rising off of it. I am always in a hurry to eat pasta and did not wait to take the picture until it stopped steaming. Tonight we both ate … Continue reading

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Delicious vegan dinner – penne and cannellini beans with vegetables – 3/3/17

The real trick to this recipe is to make a sauce using the pasta water. I probably used about one cup. The water has the starchy goodness from the pasta and is further enhanced by the sweet starchiness of the … Continue reading

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Penne, meatballs, tomato sauce, ho-hum – 2/23/17

Boring. Easy. Quick. That about sums up Thursday’s dinner. The sauce was leftover and frozen from some previous Italian-inspired dinner and the meatballs come frozen in a bag. We cooked the penne.  It is embarrassing to post this but I … Continue reading

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