I love pasta in any way, shape or form. This bow-tie pasta caught my eye from Curtis Stone’s What’s For Dinner cookbook. Besides the obvious this recipe includes olive oil, shallots, garlic, dry white wine, thyme, corn, heavy cream and Parmesan cheese. I enjoyed this pasta but my husband gave it a meh. I think…
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February Potluck! Baked Rigatoni with Bechamel Sauce
This week at I Heart Cooking Clubs we can cook from any of their featured chefs, I chose Giada De Laurentiis. I made Baked Rigatoni with Bechamel Sauce available on the Food Network website. I have made this several times and it is a crowd pleaser. There were a few changes I made. Instead of…
French Fridays with Dorie Dressy Pasta Risotto
This dressy pasta “risotto” was delicious and a big hit at our house. It is a fancy macaroni and cheese that is made like risotto. I sauteed one onion in butter until soft, added 3 3/4 cups chicken broth and brang to a boil. Then I added 1 1/3 cups of pasta and simmered 20-25…
Beef and Cheese Manicotti
July Mystery Box Madness Challenge! Make a dish containing at least 3 of the monthly mystery ingredients. Three of this month’s ingredients jumped out at me when I read them: mozzarella cheese, pasta and parsley. I was in the mood for some Italian food so I suggested a few recipes to my husband and he picked Beef…
Beggars Linguine
This week on French Fridays with Dorie the group is making Spice Crusted Tuna (page 304). Since tuna is not our preferred fish we opted to make something else. My husband picked Beggars Linguine (page 370). These ingredients don’t scream pasta; pistachios, almonds, dates, raisins, orange rind and butter, lots of butter but it…
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