Tag Archives: Italian

Italian Wedding Soup

I’m going to go ahead and brag on myself here. This may be my favorite food picture I have ever taken. That’s right. I took this picture! I love the colors, the composition. It just makes me happy. Picture taking aside, I love this soup. It is hearty, delicious and shhh, don’t tell my family, [...]

Spaghetti alla Puttanesca

Continuing the pasta clean out of my pantry, I sought out a quick and easy pasta dish for a hectic weekday night. Several friends had suggested puttanesca previously as being a quick and easy week night meal and I’d tried variations but none as tasty as this. AND I had most of the ingredients in [...]

Braciole

Mom, you would be proud. I remember having this occasionally as a special occasion dinner and since we purchased that cow, I knew I was going to have to try my hand at it. Most people have never heard of Braciole before (pronounced bra’zhul) but that’s the benefit of being raised with a true NY [...]

Pasta and Beans

I mentioned that last week was a week of vegetarianism for me in preparation for all of the beef that we would be receiving! So I queued up my grocery list with a couple of new vegetarian meals. I’d say both of these were moderately successful. My struggle is that after awhile, I get tired [...]

Eggplant Parmesan

This week, I am attempting a week of vegetarianism. Just a week. I may toss some fish in there, but who’s counting. . . I started on Sunday, although, come to think of it, we did have a couple of samples at HEB that were chicken. . . oh well. When I think vegetarian, eggplant [...]

Baked Ziti with Spinach and Tomatoes (and Sausage!)

I made this recipe Saturday for a potluck dinner on Saturday night and had so many requests for the recipe that I thought I’d go ahead and post the recipe here for all to see.  I picked it because it had so few ingredients and I thought I could increase the proportions to serve more people. [...]

Pork Parmesan and Ricotta Gnocchi

{And now we resume regularly scheduled programming.} The pork parmesan is something that I took from what my mom used to make and I changed it just a bit! Jason has always like this recipe and I’ve made it pretty continuously for the past couple of years. I would imagine it would work well with [...]