Tag: pasta

  • Thai Basil & Peanut Pesto Buckwheat Pasta

    Finally, success with a savory recipe!  UBER success.  This is crazy good.  I have one serving left over and it’s all I can do to avoid running into the kitchen right now to eat it.  YUM. I complained yesterday that I couldn’t even make sure I bought fresh Thai basil this week – I was…

  • June Salad Challenge + Basil Gnocchi + Roasted Asparagus Salad

      Ohmygosh it’s June already! Can you believe it? I am done with all the posts about myself, but I really did enjoy having a blogging challenge last month.  This month I’m giving myself a new challenge: a salad a day.  I always aim for a salad a day, but it’s usually just a goal…

  • Spicy Baked Pasta

    Here’s a super simple weeknight meal that is fast, comforting, and delicious. You really need to pair it with a quick salad for a nutritionally sound meal, but I’m assuming you can manage that 😉 This dish doesn’t require hardly any hands-on time, but if you happen to have leftover plain cooked pasta in your…

  • Secret-Ingredient Pasta Alfredo

    I was clearly in the mood for seemingly-indulgent comfort foods this weekend when I planned and cooked the food I’m posting this week.  Coconut water mocha, beer-battered onion rings, this recipe, and a dessert tomorrow.  Hmmm…   Eh well!  This is one of those recipes that makes me feel kind of pompous.  Because it is…

  • Drunken Tuscan Pasta w/ Pan-Roasted Tomatoes

    I got to do something pretty exciting yesterday!  I joined the brilliant planners and participants for the 2nd Annual Sacramento Vegan Chef Challenge for a little meet-and-greet.  The Vegan Chef Challenge (“VCC”) is a month-long event here in Sacramento in which a bunch of restaurants have agreed to provide a vegan menu.  They’ll make an…

  • Spinach & Artichoke Pasta

    Not to toot my own horn too much (yes, I really just used that phrase), buuuuuut I did something kind of awesome the other day.   I made my Spinach & Artichoke Dip.  Then I tossed it with hot pasta. 

  • Creamy Vegetable Bolognese Pasta

      This is the first recipe I vegan-ized after my vegan switch!   It is a brilliant tasty recipe for vegetable bolognese sauce from the lovely Giada DeLaurentiis.  And veganizing it is super-simple – just swap some Tofutti cream cheese for the mascarpone cheese the recipe calls for, leave out the parm, and you have…

  • Leftover Makeover: Crispy "Fried" Ravioli

    Crispy ravioli?  Wasn’t my last post ravioli?  I warned you I was doing a post for the leftovers! Actually, I was supposed to post it yesterday, but after a long week of working and trying to unpack, I passed out!  Sorry for the wait!   This is the first of a new feature I’m calling…

  • Whole Wheat Spinach & Cheese Ravioli

    Homemade.  Vegan.  Whole wheat.  Ravioli.   Ummmmmm  . . . enough said.   I saw Giada DeLaurentiis make homemade ravioli on the Food Network, and she made it look ridiculously easy.  So I figured this is a great solution to the lack of vegan ravioli in my life – is it just me, or is…

  • Peanutty Soba Noodle Salad

    Slicing veggies aside, this is a really quick meal to throw together.  Especially if you use precooked refrigerated soba noodles like I did.  And it’s great cold, so you can make extras to take to work for lunch!