I love Noodles and Company. Every chance I get, I go there to eat. However, since I have moved the closest one is 20 minutes away. My favorite dish is their Wisconsin Mac and Cheese. It is a fun dish where there is a cheesy sauce in the bottom of the bowl. Then it is [...]
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Fettuccine Alfredo is one of those dishes that sounds complicated and time consuming. There is nothing farther from the truth. Basic Fettuccine Alfredo has 7 ingredients and takes roughly the time to boil the Fettuccine to make. I spiced this recipe up by adding one ingredient to the basic recipe. Daring isn’t it. However, Asparagus [...]
Every once in a while I will go out to eat and there will be an amazing soup with delicious dumpling-like noodles in it. I have always wondered how or where they get their noodles. Then I started to mess around with dumpling recipes to see if I could turn them into noodles. I was [...]
Posted in All, Pasta, Recipes Tags: delicious, dumpling, dumpling noodles, easy, egg noodles, fast, homemade, noodles, soup noodles 7 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago Chris over at NibbleMeThis made Spaghetti and Meatball Pot Pies. They were ingenious! If you have never been to his blog, I would definitely check it out. He is a master with a grill. His Pot Pies have stuck in my mind for a while now and I decided to make my [...]
Posted in All, Pasta, Pizza, Pizza Dough, Recipes Tags: baked ziti, bread bowl pasta, Pasta, Pizza Dough, pot pie 1 Comment »
I love the blue box stuff, but sometimes you just want to make it from scratch. Well I have tried over and over again, and it always seems to fail. My mac and cheese is never as creamy. So I looked for a little wisdom from Alton Brown and figured I would give it a [...]
Posted in All, cheese, Pasta, Recipes Tags: alton brown, american cheese, cheese, creamy mac and cheese, macaroni, one pan, stove top 4 Comments »
My CSA comes with unlimited basil each week. Therefore, I have been making a ton of pesto. I love the fresh taste of pesto. After a few tries, I found that the best pasta for pesto is Cellantani. It is a spiral macaroni pasta with rigati grooves in the outside. The spiral along with the [...]
Starch Starch Starch, I love Starch. This is the greatest meal I have ever had. It is based on one that I had a Bob Evans Restaurant. It is basically a Biscuit, topped with mashed potatoes, topped with chicken noodle soup. Amazing!! This was one meal that I was extremely happy that I had leftovers [...]
The weather here in DC has been like a rollercoaster. Everywhere from the mid 90′s to the low 40′s all in the span of a week. Needless today everybody is suffering from a little cold. So I decided to make homemade chicken noodle soup (Recipe on Saturday), however I wanted to make noodles from scratch. [...]
Posted in Pasta, Recipes Tags: chicken noodle soup noodles, dumpling noodles, egg noodles, homemade noodles, how to, recipe 3 Comments »I was looking for a meat free dish the other day and Dana suggested manicotti. I have had this stuffed shell dish, but have never attempted to make it. So here is my attempt and ultimate success. They were delicious. The cheese and spinach stuffing was the best. Served with a basic marinara these manicotti [...]
Posted in Italian, Pasta, Recipes Tags: Baked manicotti, cheese, Marinara, Pasta, spinach 4 Comments »This months issue of Food and Wine has a some great pasta recipes in it. One that sparked my interest was Orecchiette with Veal Capers and White Wine. Orecchiette is the pasta that looks like little ears. Unfortunately no store around me has this type of pasta. Further, I am not the biggest fan of [...]
After a long weekend of being in Airports I wanted a nice and hearty meal. So I searched around and came across a nice and easy Ravioli recipe from Giada. The recipe does not require you to make pasta and it includes some of my favorite ingredients such as; mushroom, spinach and marscarpone cheese. Top [...]
I hate to say it, but I am a huge fan of Noodles & Company. My favorite dish is the Mushroom Stroganoff. So today I wanted to try to recreate it. So I went to the store and picked up 2 lbs of mushrooms. Luckily I had a huge pan as I totally underestimated how [...]
Posted in Mushrooms, Pasta, Recipes Tags: egg noodles, mushroom stroganoff, Mushrooms, stroganoff 8 Comments »When I was a kid my parents would take me to Pizza Hut for the pizza and salad bar buffet. It was the best time as it was all you can eat breadsticks and pizza. Before diving knee deep into the pizza I always went to the salad bar for a quick healthy snack. That [...]
Posted in Pasta, Recipes Tags: cold salad, macaroni salad, quick macaroni salad, simple macaroni salad 2 Comments »
