When cooking Pasta for spaghetti or any other dish. I recommend leaving the sauce and pasta in separate pans. That way you can add as much sauce as you want and the pasta that is left over can be made over into a new quick meal or snack. It does not matter what type of ...
I was recently caught ill prepared for dinner guests. Trying to settle my father into his new home and also nursing my family through a summer cold, I suddenly found myself under the gun to prepare a meal for unexpected guests. We decided on steaks for the grill, steamed green beans and pasta salad. In ...
Pasta is one of my favorite food items and I like to eat it as often as possible. Recently, my wonderful Father brought over a type of pasta that I had never seen or heard of before. The type of pasta that I am referring to is Ronzoni Quick Cook Pasta. The variety that my ...
Pick a Pasta for a Healthy Meal. Pasta takes a bad rap from many nutritionists. Plain pastas are usually made from processed and refined white flours, which add very little nutrition or fiber to the human diet, while potentially adversely affecting blood sugars. However, pasta can be a nutritious source of complex carbohydrates, but the ...
Pasta with flaxseed, Omega-3 is all the rage these days. A surgical nurse that I know first clued me into the benefits of switching my children’s whole-wheat pasta to a pasta plus. Barilla PLUS pasta is the one of the popular pastas with Omega-3 brands and it is best life approved. Best life approved means ...
Chicken recipes are a staple of our dinners, week in and week out. However, chicken can get boring prepared from the same dull chicken recipe. The following chicken recipe is easy to make, full of vitamins, and always a hit. It’s got so much packed in, half the time you don’t even need a side ...
Ever wondered how the dried pasta and macaroni sold in stores is made? Maybe you even thought about making some at home, but decided that it would be too hard? If so, read on; homemade pasta is really quite simple and easy to make, plus it has a much better flavor and is also better ...
Ever since I was young, I’ve always loved macaroni and cheese. Growing up, my mom always made the Kraft Macaroni n Cheese, the one in the blue box, and it was always one of my favorite side meals. In recent years, having become more conscious and cautious about all the prefab things we call food ...
Though it was developed in Italy, pasta is popular around the world. Today, dried spaghetti, fettuccini, and even lasagna noodles can be found in almost any grocery store. There is no question that while these products are widely available, they typically taste better when in the fresh-not dried-form. With a little practice, you can make ...
Pasta Slim by Wildwood is a wheat and gluten free pasta alternative with only 20 calories per serving. As a comparison, a serving of regular wheat pasta contains about 210 calories. The average restaurant portion size may contain 1,000 calories. But how does it taste? Since I’m familiar with tofu-based pastas, I found it to ...
