Pasta
Seared Shrimp Over Thin Spaghetti With a Mushroom and Garlic Cream Sauce
Seared shrimp, seasoned with salt and pepper, over thin spaghetti with a mushroom and garlic cream sauce sounds like a fancy dinner, but it’s actually super easy! This title might win in “the longest recipe title ever conceived by anyone anywhere” category. But, really, I’m not sure how else to explain this simple recipe I made a couple of months ago. That’s exactly what’s pictured — except I should have also added and fresh tomato and basil to the title, if I were truly trying to be exact about things. Because, you know, there’s fresh tomato and basil sprinkled right on top. I originally posted an Instagram shot of this recipe…
Summer Couscous Salad
This versatile summer couscous salad is perfect for picnics and barbecues or paired with chicken or grilled shrimp for a tasty main course meal. I have few Food Network chefs I’d call my faves, my go-to recipe crafters. Of the bunch, those I keep coming back to have simple, easy-to-follow, flavor-rich recipes that aren’t fussy and overwhelming. They fit in with our family’s busy lifestyle, and typically don’t use off-the-wall ingredients that require an extra trip to the grocery store. These are the chefs that top my list: 1. Alton Brown Alton Brown’s matter-of-fact way to talking about food and recipes are one big reason I have a passion for cooking…
Seared Shrimp Spaghetti Marinara
It’s the time of year where heavy comfort food gets shelved just like winter sweaters get stored away for the summer. Over the next few months I’ll still make a pot of chili now and again, and the occasional rich lasagna – I mean, how could we not? For the most part I’m ready for light, fresh dishes. Salads, grilled meats and veggies and simple, easy to prep pastas. Here’s one that takes 15 minutes, just perfect for a busy weeknight. (Quicker, even, than take-out!) Seared Shrimp Spaghetti Marinara Frozen, raw shrimp have been thawed, seasoned and seared while spaghetti boils in salted water. Marinara is then poured into the skillet…
Shrimp, Mushroom, Garlic, Bacon Parmesan Tortellini Recipe
This easy weeknight tortellini recipe, chock full of shrimp, mushroom, garlic, bacon, and parmesan, will leave you drooling! I brought leftovers of this particular pasta dish to work the other day, and my co-worker nearly trampled me to get close enough for a stab with her fork after I pulled the container from the microwave oven. Even reheated, the flavors are tremendously rich and deep. She asked me to give her the tortellini recipe. Right then. As in, I’d recite the recipe and she’d scribble it down. “Oh! Okay,” I chirped. I love recipe sharing! Tortellini Recipe I started listing all the steps, beginning with “grab a pasta pot and…
Easy Spaghetti Carbonara
This easy spaghetti carbonara is perfect for a busy weeknight, and loaded with bacon and parmesan! Make it a little saucier by adding an extra egg and/or up to a quarter cup of reserved pasta water. So good! As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. This post may contain affiliate links. Tonight it was just me and the kids for dinner, as my husband was out at a concert with some friends for the evening. While I love going to a good concert, I wasn’t upset about missing this one. It’s at an outside venue. And, it’s hot here in Maryland. Like, 115°F with the heat index, hot.…
Chicken and Portobello Mushroom Creamy White Lasagna
There’s been a recipe sitting in the back of my mind for years, and for one reason or another I’ve never made it. Could be because my husband doesn’t like lasagna. (I know – who doesn’t like lasagna?) Or maybe it’s just because lasagna isn’t something you can throw together in 30 minutes on a weeknight. At any rate, last night was book club…pot luck style. Perfect excuse to bring out THE recipe, with a few tweaks of my own, of course. Time to channel Ina Garten in my oh-so-not-the-Hamptons kitchen, and try my darndest to use the “very best” of every ingredient or whatever happens to be at my…
Pasta With Beef Mushroom Sauce
Mushrooms are the star of the show with this simple beef pasta dish that’s ready in fifteen minutes! Raise your hand if you have a picky eater in your house. I bet almost everyone’s raising a hand. In fact, I’m sure of it! My husband was a picky eater when I met him back in the early 2000s. Meat, potatoes and onions (the only vegetable he’d tolerate)—that’s about it. But over the years he’s become open to trying new things (yay!) and sometimes he’s pleasantly surprised to discover a new favorite (zucchini), and other times not so much (green beans). It’s refreshing that he’s willing though; there’s nothing worse than…
Chicken Mushroom Fettuccine Alfredo
This simple chicken mushroom fettuccine alfredo is topped with a perfectly seasoned and seared chicken breast. I’m a bit of a pasta fiend. I think I could eat it every night if given the option. The rest of my family, however, probably won’t ever agree to a daily pasta recipe regimen (despite my wishes) and I guess that’s okay for all of us. But, sometimes when I find myself on my own for dinner, I don’t have to worry about whether or not anyone’s in the mood for pasta (again). It’s nights like this where a something as simple as a basic alfredo sauce paired with a savory seared chicken breast…
