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Pasta

Light Vodka sauce with pasta

October 13, 2009

One of my favorite indulgent pasta dishes is Penne a la Vodka. If you never have tried this, you must! It’s a creamy tomato sauce with sweet shallots and a touch of vodka, its the best! However, it is way too caloric of a meal for me so I have tried to lighten it up [...]

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Simple Sustenance-Whole Wheat Baked Spaghetti

September 9, 2009

Baked spaghetti is a perfect comfort meal on cold, rainy days like we’ve been having here in D.C. It’s also really cheap and easy to make. You can make as much or as little as you like and baked spaghetti is easy for left overs. I use whole wheat pasta noodles and part skim mozzerella [...]

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Grape Tomato Pasta

August 31, 2009

Although tomatoes have not been having the best season, I have still found very sweet grape tomatoes that are the perfect topping for several dishes. They are great over green, leafy salads, used as a dipping device, and I love when they are hot, juicy and burst in your mouth. Although I am a lover [...]

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Rainbow chard rigatoni

August 19, 2009

One of my favorite foods of summer are fresh greens. You can definitely taste the difference of fresh greens versus greens sold at a supermarket AND there are a ton of varieties available. Just the other week at the farmers market I got to try a green that was meant to taste like wasabi and [...]

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Simple Sustenance- Broccoli Pasta

July 29, 2009

I would like to introduce the first recipe in our Simple Sustenance series featuring recipes using 5 ingredients or less and cost $5 or less to make. This dish is just about as basic as it gets. It requires only 2 main ingredients, but gives you the option to “fancify” or dress up the dish [...]

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Asparagus and White Bean Pasta

June 3, 2009

Since asparagus is my summer veggie of choice, I was inspired by Jennifer’s recent post with lemony asparagus and tortellini enough to try my own version. Lemon and asparagus just plain work well together! The acidity and tartness of the lemon matches perfectly with the complex flavor of the asparagus. Love it! Here, I just [...]

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Lemony Asparagus with Tortellini

May 26, 2009

Keeping with summer themed foods, I was inspired to make something light, green, full of veggies…something like Heidi’s asparagus salad! I followed the recipe almost exactly, although I added regular broccoli in with the asparagus and broccolini. I also passed on the radishes because I’m not a huge fan. I served the salad with cheese [...]

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Baked Pasta with Pesto & Ricotta

April 30, 2009

I’ve mentioned how much I love Deborah Madison’s Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone book. I wanted to find a recipe in the book and I could not find it in my apartment. I never took it out of the place and now I can’t find it, crazy! I remembered a recipe in the book that I [...]

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Keep It Simple Pasta Dinner

April 29, 2009

This is the EASIEST pasta dish to make EVER! I love it! It’s great when you have zero time but are super hungry. It’s both quick and healthy. Just cook whole wheat pasta (al dente), drain, and drizzle with olive oil and then season heavily with kosher salt and fresh cracked pepper (as much as [...]

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Buitoni Wild Mushroom Agnolotti

April 23, 2009

I was very excited that Foodbuzz gave me the opportunity to try Buitoni’s new Riserva line of all-natural pastas. This one, Wild Mushroom Agnolotti, came in the mail during the weekend and I was a little cautious. Although you have seen me cook with mushrooms, I’m not the biggest fan of mushrooms. For me, less [...]

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