Pasta

  It’s Monday (officially my least favorite day of the week these days), and after a very “busy” weekend of eating and drinking here (don’t believe me, our insta was on fire!), I’d usually hold off on making a pasta dish until later in the […]

Last week was full of celebrations in our house. My son’s 2nd birthday, my Dad’s 64th birthday, Father’s Day and the end of the school year for my 3 year old. Between all of these “events”, cooking and blogging took a bit of a backseat […]

As we enter week 7… or 8, or 9? (I honestly can’t keep track anymore!) of this crisis and it’s now been almost 3 weeks since our last grocery delivery, I’m really scraping the bottom of the barrel right now when it comes to cooking […]

I have a backlog of recipe posts I’ve been trying to get to lately (including last night’s pork tenderloin roulade – soon!), but this recipe was so good and SO simple that I had to make time to post it for you tonight. You can […]

I’ve been SO behind on posting this year (not keeping up with my New Year’s resolutions, sorry!), so I figured I’d make it up for it with this post, since it is actually 3 recipes in one. You can make just one pasta, make two, […]

If one of your New Years resolutions was to cook healthier for your family in 2020, then look no further than this recipe. And if your other resolution was to find time to do so, then you are definitely in luck. This is just about […]

    The leave are falling, the temperatures are dropping… it’s officially fall and the time of year I look forward to most – pumpkin season! If you don’t know this about me yet, I am an unapologetic pumpkin fanatic (my other obsession is pb&j – […]

  Today’s “word” of the day – “healthify” (yes I invented it, no judgment please!). It’s pretty self explanatory, but I’m using it to describe how you can take a recipe that’s typically an indulgence and make it a healthy guilt free meal by thinking […]

After two big weekends of cooking and entertaining, my fridge is once again stocked full of goodies!  It was so depressing when we had to dump everything in March after losing power for a week, but I’ve clearly made up for lost time.  We have […]

  This is the perfect example of a recipe I dreamed up around one ingredient – crispy kale! I don’t know where I got inspired to make it the star of a pasta dish, but I ran with it. Luckily, this dish turned out so […]

  Believe it or not, this is a recipe I totally and completely winged. Aren’t those the best?! It was the middle of our epic March Nor’easter and I knew that whatever I was going to make that night had to be sourced from my […]

  When you get hit with an impromptu blizzard (in March, no less!) just about the best thing you can do is hunker down and cook something hearty. Better yet, it’s the perfect time for slow cooking and this one recipe that you won’t want […]

This dish is one we’ve been dying to create ever since we discovered the “art” to this unique form of pasta. Grano arso (“burnt grain”) may not be familiar to you now, but I’m fairly confident it soon will be; word on the street is that […]

After a week of holiday travels and celebrations (and LOTS of eating out!) it’s so nice to be home in our kitchen and back to cooking some homecooked meals. In particular, we love this easy no-fuss pasta dish – it’s the perfect thing to whip up […]

A few weeks back, I posted my Mom’s family spaghetti and meatball recipe and now that the weather has turned, this cozy dish is going to be making a lot of recurring appearances at our table. But you know us, we’re ever-experimenting in the kitchen, […]

We are big believers in carving out time for “date night” in our family, and now that we have a baby on board – we have learned to make time whenever we can.  Even what may seem like just a random Tuesday evening can be […]

My Mom’s spaghetti and meatballs are a legacy in our house, as they should be in any Italian household.  If I’m craving any dish from childhood it’s usually a tie between this recipe (or chicken on the bone).  This meal was always comforting to me […]

This is one of those simply elegant dinners that you can easily replicate for a weeknight or anytime you’re entertaining and want to impress. For those who are curious, Francese means just what you think – “in the French manner,” but it really refers to a […]

Marc called me at work one afternoon and instead of the usual back and forth about “what should we have for dinner” he announced we were having linguine with white clam sauce.  He’d already gotten the ingredients and we were ready to go. What a […]