Pasta

Shrimp Scampi Pasta

January 13, 2013
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Switching gears again. I know you were all expecting a Thai recipe (weren’t you) but I’m in a pasta mood today. In almost 4 months of traveling can you guess how many times I’ve had American/Italian style pizza? Just once. In Kyoto, Japan less than a week into our traveling adventures, after a home cooked [...]

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Hue Spring Rolls

January 11, 2013
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I know I’ve already mentioned that we are in Thailand, but for just a moment we’re going to jump back to Vietnam. So as not to bore you with consecutive spring roll recipes back to back I spaced them out with some others, but now we’re back to the spring rolls. Remember I took that [...]

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Chorizo Tomato Pasta for Back to School #SundaySupper

August 26, 2012
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For my second time participating in the Sunday Supper  movement the theme is Back to School 30 minute start to finish dinner meals. Though as summer comes to an end I am no longer going to back to school (and instead am embarking on a 2 year backpacking trip around the world) I do still appreciate [...]

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Daring Cooks June 2012 – Cannelloni with Spinach Ricotta Filling

June 14, 2012
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This month’s daring cooks challenge was to make cannelloni from scratch, including fresh pasta and sauces. In the US cannelloni is erroneously referred to as manicotti which is actually a pre rolled dinner crepe as opposed pre rolled pasta. However you call it the dish required you to make an egg pasta from scratch, divide [...]

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Homemade Pasta with Butternut Squash Sauce

July 19, 2011
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I feel like there are just some vegetables that I never cook with. In this group we have fennel, leeks, butternut squash, fresh artichokes, bok choy, fiddleheads, and pumpkins. It’s not that I have anything against these vegetables (well, except for fennel which sort of tastes like licorice – the most detestable flavor [to me]), [...]

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Daring Cooks July 2011 – Home made Pasta with Prosciutto Cream Sauce

July 14, 2011
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This month’s challenge was to make home made pasta, which I had never done before but always wanted to try. In preparation I decided to order a pasta rolling machine on Amazon first, already anticipating that I would fall head over heels in love with fresh pasta and therefore absolutely must have this extra kitchen [...]

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Pasta with Shrimp and Mushrooms

April 29, 2011
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I made this recipe a few nights ago. I knew I wanted shrimp for dinner, but I also knew that the mushrooms were going to go bad if I didn’t use them ASAP. Pasta with shrimp and mushrooms seemed to be the perfect solution. The sauce is indeed creamy but it is still pretty light, [...]

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Pasta with White Clam Sauce

March 16, 2011
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Sometimes a really quick and simple dinner is all you’re looking for. You don’t even need it to be spectacular – just easy to make and filling. That’s all I was looking for when I decided to make this recipe. And to my surprise it wasn’t just quick and filling –  it was really good [...]

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Chorizo White Bean Pasta

March 1, 2011
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I’m always trying to cook new things. Not only using new recipes but also buying ingredients that I’ve never cooked with before. My latest new ingredient was chorizo sausage links. I was looking all over for a good chorizo pasta recipe but couldn’t really find one I liked that used the raw chorizo sausage links. [...]

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Goat Cheese Shrimp Pasta

January 18, 2011
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I went home for the weekend for my mom’s bday.  Which basically meant I was on kitchen duty breakfast, lunch and dinner. (Not that I’m complaining or anything). This recipe was a big hit with mom n gma – dad not so much – he doesn’t like shrimp so I didn’t expect him to be [...]

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