by Alice Ciccu | Nov 15, 2024 | Recipes
We used our homemade marinara sauce, see link below. You can use store-bought sauce, but most of them are usually too sweet and too thick. If the sauce is fairly thick, you can add some pasta water to thin it down some. Since we eat a lot of pasta, I almost always...
by Alice Ciccu | Nov 15, 2024 | Recipes
This squash recipe, with farro, nuts, celery, and onions, makes a great main dish for a plant-based meal. You can omit the nuts if you have someone with a tree-nut allergy, and change the croutons to gluten-free, if needed. I used fresh thyme, but you could use sage...
by Alice Ciccu | Nov 15, 2024 | Recipes
Notice the single bay leaf? This is one of those ingredients that most people can’t taste, but if you leave it out, it will be noticed. Your guests might not know what is missing, but the soup will lose some flavor and heartiness. It adds a savory flavor that...
by Alice Ciccu | Nov 14, 2024 | Recipes
I titled this “pasta” carbonara as it can be served with several different kinds of pasta. While I used spaghetti, it’s also good with linguini or penne, rigatoni, mostaccioli or other short pasta shapes. It should be a shape that is more robust and...
by Alice Ciccu | Nov 14, 2024 | Recipes
While you can use canned tomatoes instead of fresh ones, the sauce is so much more flavorful with fresh, especially if they come from your garden or a local farmers market. Because this dish has so many flavors, it goes best with a less complicated main dish. Either a...
