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...
by Alice Ciccu | Apr 9, 2024 | Recipes
This is one of our standard go-to pasta recipes when we are short on time. Usually, we have all the ingredients on hand, and it can be ready in 15 minutes, depending on how fast your stove can boil water. You can make this pasta with linguine or penne as well. For...
by Alice Ciccu | Mar 4, 2024 | Recipes
To make this lasagna you need marinara sauce and béchamel (besciamla) – see links to those recipes below. There are a lot of no-boil lasagna brands available, but don’t use them. Although they do soften up in the oven, they absorb a lot of the liquid from...
by Alice Ciccu | Feb 16, 2024 | Recipes
Baked Pasta Baked Pasta Ingredients This is a family favorite recipe that works well for just a family night meal, with salad and bread, or as a first course for your next dinner party. It does have a couple of sauces, but if you already have marinara, the bescimella...
