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 ...
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Creamy Tortellini Soup with Italian Sausage and Spinach
Lots of soup recipes to go around. This Creamy Tortellini Soup with Italian Sausage and Spinach is definitely one of my favorites. Made this for lunch on a Sunday afternoon recently for Jaime and I. Did the kids have any? Nope, of course not. The kids have very simple tastes, so they won't be adventurous when it comes to food. As my dad would say: "They don't know what they are missing." This ...
Seared Pork Loin Cacciatore
I like to think that this Seared Pork Loin Cacciatore recipe is a bit of an original. Cacciatore dishes can be a bit of a dime a dozen, with every Italian household seemingly having their own way of making them. There is nothing too exotic or difficult about a cacciatore dish, all the recipes tend to have some of the same things so it's a 'you know it when you taste it' kind of deal. Rather than ...
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 ...
Pasta With Marinara Sauce
Recipes aplenty for pasta with marinara sauce. There very well might be a separate marinara sauce for every cook out there. As sauces go, individual taste plays a big role. That said, what is a marinara sauce? A marinara sauce is a totally vegetable based, usually fast cooked, tomato sauce. This is not the well known long simmering meat sauce. This is the relative quick and light meatless ...