The first CSA tomatoes of the season arrived in our bag yesterday, which means a quick stop at Cheesetique for pasta and cheese is all that’s needed to put together a fast, fresh pasta dish.
This week, I used red pepper pappardelle. I had orange Roma tomatoes, which I quick roasted in my cast iron skillet [...]
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This Presto Pasta Night dish meets two of my healthier cooking goals — whole grains added by using buckwheat soba rather than a standard white pasta, and added greens by incorporating fresh chard. The sauce was inspired by a Coconut Shrimp Soup recipe from Martha’s Everyday Food.
Recipe: Coconut Shrimp Soba
adapted from Everyday Food
Ingredients:
1 lb. [...]
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This was another improvisational pasta night dish, as my original plans to use the last of my fresh ricotta were thwarted by the cheese having spoiled (so tragic). Fortunately, I still had some cream from last week’s shortcake, so this evolved into a springy green alfredo sauce. I thought it was yummy, but the husband [...]
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This week’s pasta night dish is actually a soup, with Japanese rice noodles playing a supporting role. It was a little more improvised than usual, as I originally started out to make a slaw with CSA cabbage, carrots, onion and radish. After I tossed it with a dressing, I tasted the cabbage and realized it [...]
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This was an easy pasta dish made easier with a few Trader Joe’s favorites - cooked, peeled frozen shrimp and Ginger Soy Broth, plus my own prepped and frozen broccoli and garlic scape pesto from last week. I also used TJ’s flax seed pasta to fulfill my Whole Grains Challenge quota for the day. (OK, [...]
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I thought up this dish after reading about this week’s Root Source Challenge subject, chives, and thinking about how to use all the veggies I bought at market last weekend. But the recipe, improvised on the fly while the husband and I took turns doing prep work in between reading to, holding (”up! up!”) and [...]
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In an attempt to establish a dinner routine in the FoodieTot house, I have decreed Tuesdays as pasta night. I had a container of ready-made green garlic pesto sauce (Smith Meadows, Va.) which made this meal even easier. (I would’ve made my own, but there was no green garlic to be had at the market, [...]
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slurping pasta, originally uploaded by foodietots.
Still trying to get the toddler interested in asparagus, I included it in this simple chicken and pasta dish. No luck though, as he deftly gobbled up the pasta while avoiding the green bits. I also failed in the photo department, as we had company and the only shot I [...]
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honey mushrooms, pa., originally uploaded by foodietots.
Our local farmers’ market kicked off the ‘08 season this past weekend. Now that the toddler isn’t up by 6am in the mornings, we weren’t there when they opened and missed the first spring asparagus. But, our cheese guy Tom was there - he brings the creamiest Jersey cow’s [...]
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This week in the market bag: butternut squash, sweet potatoes, pears (Asian, bosc & Bartlett), broccoli, heirloom tomatoes, quince, eggs, sweet potato ravioli, pumpkin butter, mozzarella and seven-cheese macaroni. (That’s right, seven!) We were busy pumpkin picking and farm visiting this weekend, so the prepared pastas came in handy.
Saturday supper: sweet potato ravioli with mascarpone [...]
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