Recipes and Posts Tagged Pasta & Rice
Beans and Pasta (Fagioli e Pasta)
For many Americans Beans and Pasta (Fagioli e Pasta or Pasta Fagoli) is a bean and macaroni soup. For Southern Italians Beans and Pasta is a hearty mixture of cooked beans, elbow macaroni, and tomato sauce. The sauce can have meat or be meatless for a vegetarian version. Whether you ...
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Macaroni Salad
This is not the mushy, runny, macaroni salad available pre-packaged or at grocer delis. The pasta for this macaroni salad recipe maintains its firmness even after several days of refrigeration. Like most home made foods, this macaroni salad has little or no additives and preservatives. If you are concerned about ...
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Pasta with Olive Oil and Garlic
Pasta with Olive Oil and Garlic is a very simple pasta recipe that has been an Southern Italian staple for 100s of years. You can make it in the time it takes to bring a pot of water to a boil and cook the pasta. Although spaghetti is usually used ...
Read moreWorld Pasta Day – October 25th
World Pasta Day began in the year 1995 in Rome, Italy to promote the nutritional advantages of pasta to the entire world. After two years, this day was legitimately declared as World Pasta Day. Dry pasta is low in sodium and can be a nutritious accompaniment for lunch or dinner. ... more
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Rapini and Pasta
Pasta with vegetables like this recipe for Rapini and Pasta is a common southern Italian recipe, but don’t look for it on the menu at your local Italian-American restaurant. Like endive and other greens, rapini has a slightly bitter flavor and is an acquired taste. Rapini, also known as cime ...
Read moreAlfredo Sauce
Mmmm. Fettuccine Alfredo. So simple, so easy and quick to prepare, but so delicious, and so high in calories and saturated fat. The white, cream based sauce Americans call Alfredo is less than 100 years old. Original Alfredo sauce didn’t use cream? Just butter, Parmesan cheese, and black pepper. It ... more
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Pasta Alfredo Primavera
Pasta Alfredo Primavera adds vegetables and meat protein to traditional Italian-American Alfredo sauce made with butter and Parmigiano Reggiano cheese reducing calories and saturated fat per serving. Restaurant Alfredo sauce can also be very high in sodium providing 1 to 2 days worth. You can make Alfredo sauce in the ...
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Lasagna For Four
Lasagna For Four uses no boil lasagna noodles available at most supermarkets. Briefly soaking the noodles in hot water cuts baking time in half and the noodles do not absorb as much sauce resulting in a moister lasagna. One box of Barilla® no cook lasagna contains about 15 sheets; enough ...
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Lean Hot Italian Sausage
Use this recipe to make bulk, breakfast patty or extra-lean link sausage. For link sausage natural or manmade casings and a sausage stuffing machine are required. Kitchenaid stand mixers have an optional sausage stuffing attachment. Bulk sausage can be used to make tomato sauce, meatloaf, chili and dozens of other ...
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