by Alice Ciccu | Mar 27, 2025 | Recipes
I think orecchiette are an under-appreciated pasta shape. Everyone has their favorite, but I don’t think these are at the top of the list for many people. That’s a shame. It’s a wonderful shape, if you can find the right sauce or recipe, and this one...
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 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...
by Alice Ciccu | Jul 16, 2024 | Recipes
This salad has a lot of ingredients, but it’s mostly just cutting up something or opening a can or jar. It can be served warm, at room temperature, or cold. Because the salad has both garbanzo beans and pasta, it makes a good choice as a main dish for a...
