Egg noodles cook very quickly and simply and can be turned into a wide range of different pasta dishes or stir fries. As easy as egg noodles are to cook, you want to be careful about overcooking them or not cooking them long enough. If not cooked properly, egg noodles will have a bite or …
Tuna, pasta, and salad. Classic favorite picnic and mealtime staples. How about we combine them all for a bowl of downright comfort and deliciousness? Craving for a salad that is not green and bland? Let’s make a tuna pasta salad! With this recipe, you can eat healthy while still having a fresh and exciting, flavorful …
If you have a can of tuna and a bag of pasta and you want a simple, quick dish to make, try putting together a delicious pan of tuna pasta bake. It cooks in about 15 minutes and will probably please the entire family. How to Layer Pasta Bake This is a dish where layering …
Lasagna is traditionally a dish served with ground beef and plenty of it. However, with a few small adjustments, it can be made into a vegetarian dish. One of the best ways to do that is by changing out the ground beef for eggplant, and you may want to make some other minor changes as …
Pesto gnocchi is a wonderful combination of creaminess and powerful flavor, and it pairs really well with chicken, fish, and shrimp. The recipe for how to make pesto gnocchi that I’ll share with you uses parmesan cheese like traditional gnocchi dishes do, but I encourage you to try some different cheeses with this and different …
Orzo may look like rice, but it’s actually a tiny pasta. You can use it as a substitute for rice in any dish, and it offers the same starchy quality. Orzo is one of those foods you want to keep stocked in your cupboard at all times just because of how versatile it is and …
If you’re like me and you love spaghetti, then you’re always looking for new ways to try it. Maybe you’re adding new seasonings to the pasta sauce you put on your spaghetti or putting new toppings on just to change up the flavor. Let me share with you a spaghetti dish known as spaghetti pie …
It’s pasta time! How often have you gone out to the restaurant with kids tagging along, and they only want one thing every time? You may be in a restaurant in New York, Italy, or France with hundreds of items to choose from on the menu. Yet, when asked what they want to order, you …
Some people like to cook their pine nuts on the stovetop and others prefer roasting them in the oven. I prefer the oven baking method because of how many more nuts you can cook at once. It saves time if you are making a big batch, and I love the way they turn out when …
Spaghetti squash is one of the blander squashes out there. The taste is so mild that people often add spaghetti sauce to it to make it more palatable. If you scoop out the inside of the squash and cut it into long strands, however, it does look a lot like spaghetti and have a similar …
What is chicken and gnocchi soup? This soup is the perfect meal for warming up your family on a cold winter’s day. It has hearty ingredients that make it filling, and the creamy goodness is so comforting that you may want to make this dish up as a way to cheer yourself up (or someone …
I want to say upfront that there’s a distinction between macaroni salad and pasta salad. Macaroni salad doesn’t really have many vegetables. It may have some peas or carrots, but that’s usually about it for veggies. Pasta salad tends to look more like a regular salad, with some pasta thrown in. This is a great …
Egg yolk ravioli is a fancy yet remarkably delicious dish. It’s a great way to enjoy a special weekend meal or impress your guests! In today’s article, we’ll show you how to make egg yolk ravioli in both the easy and the gourmet way. Let’s dive in! Easy and Quick Egg Yolk Ravioli Recipe If …
This classic Italian pasta dish is famous for being easy to make, looking fancy in front of the guest, and giving them an illusion that you spend all your day preparing this, while it only took you 30 minutes! Clam sauce with pasta can be your last-minute dinner option if you are the kind of …
All those who have experienced eating pho already know that it is the most comforting yet tasty food. I cannot stress the above sentence enough. For those who will try it for the first time, it will be life-changing for you. Pho is an authentic Vietnamese broth and rice noodles dish flavored with amazing spices. …
Hamburger has been an extremely popular dish since 1758. The history of the dish remains unclear. But many claim that they have spotted the recipe in Hannah Glasse’s book, the art of cookery made plain and easy. In her book, she mentioned “Hamburg Sausage” as the first recipe served with toasted bread. Later on, the …
While most people will cook their pasta in a pot of water on the stove, you can use the microwave to cook pasta too. When I found out how to cook pasta in the microwave, I was really amazed I had never learned this method before. I thought it was so cool that I wanted …
Have you ever tried to make pasta at home on your own? Homemade pasta may seem intimidating at first, but once I break down the process for you and give you step-by-step instructions, it might not seem as difficult anymore. I will show you how to make lasagna noodles from scratch using a basic recipe. …
We have probably all had cheese stuffed pasta shells, but have you thought abut trying them stuffed with seafood? Of course, you will want to use jumbo pasta shells. You need space to store all of the filling, after all. You can make the seafood filling out of a wide variety of foods. You can …
Have you ever tried to make your own pasta dough at home from scratch? It may not be the easiest thing, and you might be tempted to just buy pasta from the store after you try to make pasta on your own, but there are definitely some benefits. You can make pasta out of any …
I never grew up in a home where pasta sauce was made from scratch, and I am not a big fan of making it myself. There are plenty of foods I will make using the base ingredients, but pasta sauce isn’t usually one of them because of how messy and time consuming it can be. …
Dried mushrooms have a strong flavor to them and a meaty, chewy texture. This makes them ideal for adding to vegetarian dishes, as they can be substituted for meat in a variety of dishes. You can use mushrooms on your sandwiches, salads, pizza, pasta and more as a healthy vegan alternative to processed foods, meats …
Pizza sauce and spaghetti sauce are the same thing, right? You can use them interchangeably if you wanted to, but there are some subtle differences that chefs can pick out easily, as can anyone who knows what to look for. Pizza and spaghetti are two major comfort foods for college students, large families, and couples …
Macaroni and cheese is one of those quintessential dishes that almost everyone seems to love. (Except my husband, who HATES it.) Fortunately, it’s such a crowd pleaser that you can almost be certain to make just about everyone you serve it to happy as a clam. Of course, if you’re just serving up that boxed …
This recipe is inspired by a dish I tried at Bennett’s Barbecue in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. I tried their spicy mac and cheese and I really liked it, and since I detected pepper jack cheese in it I decided to come home and try to make my own version.
This recipe has been in my family for about fifty years now. We aren’t Italian, and I don’t know where the recipe originally came from. All I know is I grew up with my dad making this recipe often for our family and I’ve never had a better meat sauce anywhere. Everyone I make it …