I’m on an easy one pot meal kick lately, so how about a vegetarian one pot pasta recipe that will be great for your next Meatless Monday? This particular One Pot Parmesan Pasta with Spinach, Mushrooms, and Tomatoes dinner made use of my first major crop of garden tomatoes, combined here in a simple creamy …
Some comfort food for a rainy day: This Penne Pasta Bake has all that lasagna flavor, but with just a fraction of the effort! It cooled off quite a bit this weekend in Chicago, so I started poking around my fridge and cabinets for comfort food ideas and came up with this Penne Pasta Bake, …
Lent begins this week, making this is a good day to talk about meatless recipes such as today’s Mushroom, Kale, and White Bean Pasta — With a Fried Egg! Check out the new Meatless Monday category for some more recipe ideas, and I’m making a mental note to start posting more of these for you guys. …
Welcome to the June 26, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week we’re making a light yet filling Summer Spinach Penne Pasta recipe using summer veggies and leftover chicken, to take advantage of our great seasonal spinach and tomato prices (or garden bounty!). Not gluten …
This week’s Frugal Homemade feature is Ravioli with Rotisserie Chicken and Toasted Walnuts, which is adapted from this recipe at the blog Kevin & Amanda. This easy-yet-fancy-looking dinner is so good that even my somewhat picky teenager devoured it — and using pre-cooked rotisserie chicken saves a ton of time, making this a pretty impressive weeknight …
This week’s Frugal Homemade feature is an easy recipe for Shrimp Pasta with Veggies & Lemon Cream Sauce. I haven’t been in the mood to cook much lately, but last night I decided to whip up something tasty from the odds and ends I had in the fridge, freezer, and garden. I must say, it …