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Electric Pink Pasta Is Oh-So-Scrumptious
All month long, we've bombarded you with decadent macaroni and cheese recipes. While mac and cheese is delicious and comforting, with an excess of milk and cheese, it's not the healthiest pasta. That's why I thought it was time I share a light and fresh pasta like this rigatoni with ricotta and roasted beets.Don't be alarmed by the vibrant color, the beets stain the pasta pink.
Fast & Easy Dinner: Rigatoni With Grilled Peppers and Onions
In the warmer months, take advantage of the grill and use it to infuse smoky flavor into vegetables. Grilled veggies are great in everything from salads to sandwiches to pasta, as is the case with this recipe.
Thick chunks of charred red onions and bell peppers are tossed with hearty rigatoni.
Fast & Easy Dinner: Whole Wheat Rigatoni with Bacon
In an attempt to help my dad lower his cholesterol, I've been looking for recipes that feature whole grains. When I came across this recipe for whole wheat pasta tossed with a fragrant bacon and tomato sauce, I had to share it with both my dad and you! This hearty yet health-friendly pasta is scrumptious on a cold night, and is great when paired with a crunchy salad and crisp drink.
Fast & Easy Dinner: Baby Artichokes and Sausage Rigatoni
I've always hated the end of summer. Vacations end, kids go back to school, the weather cools, and my tan fades. The one thing I don't mind about this time of year is the return of hearty comfort foods.
Monday's Leftovers: Hamburger Pasta Salad and More
If you happened to make too many hamburger patties last night, then you've got quite a few options for dinner tonight. You could simply re-heat the patties and indulge in a burger for the second night in a row, or you could crumble up the meat and stew it in a tomato sauce for a simple sloppy joe or add a few extra spices and ingredients and turn it into a chili. Or, once re-heated, you could sprinkle on top of a bed of luscious salad greens.
Fast & Easy Dinner: Baked Ravioli
While there are some pastas, like macaroni and rigatoni, that are commonly used to make baked casserole-style dishes, other types, for example ravioli, are often overlooked.
This recipe thinks outside the baking dish by tossing store-bought ravioli with a quick homemade marinara sauce and lots of grated cheese.
The resulting meal is a crunchy, chewy, comforting mess of pasta that's sure to please the children in your life.
Pasta Shapes 101
While spaghetti is the ideal pasta shape for thin, light sauces, when making a thicker hearty sauce a larger pasta shape is ideal. It's important to choose the pasta shape that best compliments the sauce, for example a chunky meat sauce adheres best to pasta shapes with holes and ridges like rigatoni or mostaccioli and rich creamy sauces work best with the slippery noodles of fettuccine. Since today we are all about pasta I thought it would be fun to overview pasta shapes...until I realized that there are over a hundred various kinds!
Fast & Easy Dinner: Lamb and Eggplant Ragu
Traditionally, a ragu is a slow cooked meat heavy sauce; the meat is cooked for several hours until it falls off the bone and the sauce is thick. However, a rapid variation is simple to make in under 30 minutes. Ground lamb cooks quickly and is effortlessly flavored with fennel seed, oregano, and red wine.
It's No Myth - Food & Wine's Best New Chefs of 2007
In today's paper, I read that one of San Franciso's chefs was named one of Food & Wine Magazine's Best New Chefs. Sean O'Brien, of Myth, joined nine other chefs in the 2007 honor. After working many years at Gary Danko, O'Brien launched Myth in 2004.
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