Healthy pasta for dinner tonight.     While rummaging through my refrigerator the other day I came up with something interesting ingredients – a partial bag of Brussels sprouts from Christmas (yes they were still good), 1/2 a jar of steamed chestnuts that were left from a yummy Brussels sprout dish that had some sauteed [...]

Want a healthier pasta recipe?   Again, I find myself sitting around trying to dream up a new recipe.  While in Austin last weekend for our grandson’s birthday I was 2 days into the South Beach diet.  It’s easy for me to get started on any new diet because I tend to obsess over what [...]

A very delicious pasta dish! So good, I’m making it again this week — tonight.   Cauliflower is one of those vegetables that I frequently pass up in the produce section. I don’t know why, but I have never been a huge cauliflower fan. I love it fried, but what isn’t good breaded and fried [...]

Fire in the pasta! I love pasta. Even though we don’t eat it often. When I do, I want my pasta simple with a lot of flavor. I saw Giada do this on Everyday Italian a couple of years ago and knew instantly that it would meet our criteria of simple and spicy. This dish [...]

Michie Feast – Pasta Course The idea for this cours started as gnocchi, then changed to ravioli with duck bolognese, and finally settled on a duck confit ravioli with a port sauce.  I have never made my own pasta, or duck confit so I’m not sure what I was thinking! I shopped for the duck [...]