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Chicken and Butternut Gnocchi
I love this gnocchi. It has pesto (so you can't go wrong), butternut squash (which my kids especially love), chicken thighs (> breasts), and it's easy to make. The worst part is peeling and dicing...
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Skillet Pasta with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce and Eggplant
Oh, pasta. So beautiful you could hang it on the wall of a museum. So convenient you could eat it in the bathtub. I love the gooey cheesy-ness, sweet-sweet tomato-ness, and of course the crispity,...
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One Pot Creamy Asparagus and Bacon (and Chicken) Pasta
Apologies for posting this pasta so close to the veeeeeeery end of asparagus season, but I wanted you to have it. I’ve been in a bit of a blog funk/semi-break and we also took a short vacation last...
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Macaroni Pie (Happy Pi Day!)
Happy pi(e) day! I made you a macaroni pie! Actually, first and foremost, let me just state that I would personally call this a spaghett pie. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, this dish is...
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One Pot Creamy Asparagus and Bacon (and Chicken) Pasta
Apologies for posting this pasta so close to the veeeeeeery end of asparagus season, but I wanted you to have it. I’ve been in a bit of a blog funk/semi-break and we also took a short vacation last...
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Macaroni Pie (Happy Pi Day!)
Happy pi(e) day! I made you a macaroni pie! Actually, first and foremost, let me just state that I would personally call this a spaghett pie. :) Now that we’ve got that out of the way, this dish is...
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Pasta with Mini Chicken Meatballs
Happy pi(e) day! I made you a macaroni pie! Actually, first and foremost, let me just state that I would personally call this a spaghett pie. :) Now that we’ve got that out of the way, this dish is...
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Meaty Manicotti
This conversation happens pretty much weekly in my house: Me (to Tom): Anything in particular you want to eat next week? Tom: Hmm, not really. Me: Well, can you give me some ideas? I don’t want to do...
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Pasta with Balsamic Roasted Tomatoes, Bacon, and Manchego Cheese
Summer is starting to wind down, and I’ll greatly miss its bountiful produce. Since we had a late start to summer this year, everything in our garden was pushed back a bit and tomatoes are both...
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One Pot Creamy Sausage Pasta
There are times when writing blog posts comes very easily to me and I’m done in 5 minutes. Truth be told, that’s nearly every blog post because if I’m not feeling it, it doesn’t get written at that...
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Tortellini Salad with Pesto, Asparagus, and Tomatoes
I’ve always said I would pack my kids’ lunch, at least the vast majority of the time, but when I learned that our future elementary school doesn’t have a lunch program, I was a bit taken aback. Sure,...
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Pizza Pasta Bake
My youngest son will not eat cheese unless it’s stuck to pizza or pasta. If I hadn’t seen the child come out of my own body, I may question whether he’s mine (did I mention he particularly dislikes...
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Skillet Chicken Chili Mac
My older kid is usually pretty good about being gracious at dinnertime. Sure, we sometimes have those moments where he JUST DOESN’T WANT _____ or he is appalled at the audacity I had to mix his rice...
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Skillet Chicken Saltimbocca Spaghetti
A while back, I had a friend tell me that if there was anything I didn’t like, I should just wrap it in prosciutto or stuff it with goat cheese and then I’d be cool with it. And, you know, she wasn’t...
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Mediterreanean Macaroni and Cheese
It should be no surprise that I’ve been throwing feta in pasta for pretty much my whole life. It adds a nice salty bite and tastes delicious, of course. The only “bad” thing about feta is that it’s...
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Creamy Garlic Shells
There was a (long) period in my life where I was basically keeping Lipton in business. And I’m not just talking about my iced tea addiction (which I still have, thankyouverymuch) but those flavored...
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Spicy Soba Noodles with Shiitakes and Cabbage
::tap tap:: Is this thing on? Hi! So sorry for the lack of blog posting. You’re just going to have to bear with me while I figure out this whole new routine. You see, I’m officially a suburbanite. And...
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Lighter Chicken Tetrazzini
I *think* Ian is getting better with this whole dairy thing. It’s always hard to tell – did he have a fussy night because he is going through a terrible Wonder Week? Because he’s sick? Or because that...
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Orange Sesame Noodles with Chicken
In high school and college, I always loved it when midterms and finals were writing papers instead of taking tests. I was never a big fan of tests, but I could write a good paper in no time. I loved...
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Asian Spaghetti and Meatballs
About a million years ago, I remember seeing a recipe Rachael Ray had for Chinese spaghetti and meatballs and, unlike her other meals with really weird combo titles (“stoup,” anyone?) it actually...
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