Creamy pasta with Italian sausage, this rustic and comforting peasant pasta is made with simple ingredients for an easy weeknight dinner. My love for one-pot meals has no end. I used to make this peasant pasta dish, from Rachael Ray, all the time. I haven’t made it in awhile, and for some reason I started …
A spicy and creamy Cajun pasta dish with blackened shrimp and andouille sausage. Do you have a dish that you always order at a favorite restaurant? I do, and it’s Creole Pasta at this lovely little bistro in our new neighborhood. I crave it and I wish I could try something else from the menu, but I …
Hands down, this is one the best new dishes I’ve made in a long time, spaghetti with mussels and chorizo. I got the idea from the new recipe app called Yumavore, from the user Light yet Right. She posted a recipe for mussels and chorizo that caught my eye. If you haven’t already, you need to …
My great-grandparents lived in a German neighborhood on the northwest side of Chicago. My Granddad loved the food at an Italian restaurant he frequented. When he asked how to make the spaghetti and ravioli, the restaurant owner wouldn’t divulge the recipes. So Granddad invited him out for a drink and managed to get him drunk, well, …
Have you noticed how cauliflower is kind of hot right now? I have, and I admit I almost never make it. I tend to conjure up the image of a bad veggie tray with bad ranch dressing when I think of cauliflower. But then, I remembered making this pasta dish a few times, and it’s delicious …
I have been wanting to make this classic Roman pasta dish for some time now, cacio e pepe. It is simply cheese and pepper pasta. And it is simply delicious. If you have cheese, black pepper, olive oil and a box of spaghetti, you can make cacio e pepe. My cousin recently visited Italy and …
