Decadent spuds!! That's all there is to say about this recipe for Twice Baked Potatoes. Delicious baked russet potatoes loaded with four cheeses and Italian style seasonings! Yep, four cheeses!!! Combined with butter, sour cream, garlic, and pancetta, oh my. Simply decadent. Honestly, I am not a huge fan of baked potatoes, having grown up thinking baked potatoes were mostly served up as a side ...
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Creamy Cajun Pasta with Spicy Sausage
Hey there, Chris here. Get ready for this! Oh boy! Now, do I ever love spicy food!! Hope you do too! This dish is spicy deliciousness!! In general, pasta and cream sauce are a match made in creamy heaven. And this recipe is a new family favorite waiting to happen. The way the cream sauce coats the pasta, making every bite a decadent taste of pure goodness. And now combine that cream sauce with ...
Spaghetti alla Puttanesca
Spaghetti alla Puttanesca perhaps has a naughty origin in Italy, but this recipe is a guaranteed hit. Each time I have made it, it is basically lick the plate worthy. Perhaps you have had this experience ... you go out to an Italian restaurant and the spaghetti sauce leaves you dying for more. How is it that they make that sauce so darned good? Tomato sauce recipes are truly a dime a dozen on the ...
Italian Style Meatballs
This is a classic recipe for Italian-Style Meatballs. Following the process here will give you meatballs that are crunchy on the outside and moist and delicious on the inside, just as you want them to be. This is a recipe that will be loved by everybody, of course you must serve them bathed in your favorite Italian sauce. This is an adaptation of a recipe from my mom and dad, no doubt passed down ...
Lentil Soup with Pancetta
Ahh, lentil soup with pancetta. This soup is a complete convenient meal in a bowl. You will receive a good return on investment of your time spent shopping, prepping, and cooking, with a delicious final product at the end. My wife and kids are not big lentils fans, but my wife enjoyed this soup very much. I grew up loving my mom's lentils and pasta, so I am always a big fan and am not too picky. ...
Minestrone Soup Recipe
This Italian Minestrone Soup recipe will put you on a nice tour of the produce section of your grocery store. Minestrone is typically loaded with vegetables. In Italy, the vegetables available to the cook were what went into the soup. There are 8 vegetables in this Minestrone recipe. They are pretty easy to find. This soup is well worth the time spent shopping and prepping. The trick with this ...
Fettuccine al Pomodoro
Fettuccine al Pomodoro is intended to be a lighter and more quickly made pasta dish than pasta with the long cooked meat sauce. I developed this recipe after first making my Italian Orecchiette Soup, and realizing that the broth in that soup was just as delicious on the second day, when it had thickened up considerably after being in contact with the pasta overnight. So I started figuring out how ...
Slow Cooked Steak Pizzaiola
This weekend I had some inspiration to make some Slow Cooked Steak Pizzaiola. Jaime recently bought me a new crockpot and last Sunday I made a meat sauce with meatballs, sausage, pork chops, and braciole (which will be its own post sometime soon), and I ended up having some steak and tomato sauce left over. So I got a great idea. Let's use these leftovers to put together something ...