This is another baked pasta dish that is sure to be a crowd-pleaser at your dinner table. Very rich and creamy, it's not an everyday dish. But you can pull it out every once in a while for a Sunday dinner. Everybody will be stuffed and happy. And the shape and texture of the orecchiette pasta surprisingly lends itself well to being baked in this dish. Ordinarily you want to serve pasta more on ...
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Stuffed Shells With Spinach and Pancetta
Here it is, the ultimate Italian comfort food! Pasta shells stuffed with melted seasoned mozzarella and ricotta, salty gobs of pancetta, and ample fresh spinach. That's everything you get with this delicious Stuffed Shells with Spinach and Pancetta recipe. In my family, all holiday celebration meals called for the traditional main course meal and a standard Italian dish as a side meal. The Italian ...
Chicken Florentine Mac and Cheese with Bacon
Okay, this recipe for Chicken Florentine Mac and Cheese with Bacon was an improvisation. I just went through the fridge and pantry and threw a little something together with the ingredients I found. So what did I find? Well, of course, I had some pasta in the pantry. I also had some shredded cheddar cheese in the fridge left over from the Super Bowl. And I had some frozen chicken breast florentine ...
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. ...
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 ...
Italian Soup With Orecchiette Pasta, Spinach and Pancetta
Lately I am on a bit of a roll with Italian soup recipes. And why not? Soups provide a lot of bang for your buck. They can be so easy to imagine and cook up, the return on investment is high. I cooked up this Italian Soup With Orrechiette Pasta, Spinach and Pancetta the other night for dinner, and it was quite the hit. Admittedly, I am not the biggest tomato fan (unless it is a tomato sauce, yeah ...
Creamy Tomato Soup (without the cream)
We Italians sure do love our tomatoes. Obviously, we love them in our spaghetti sauce. But we can eat it just as well in our soups. Enter the tomato soup ... in this case Creamy Tomato Soup (without the cream). How in the world is tomato soup different from tomato sauce? Well, it is. You just thin it out by adding some vegetable broth. I decided to go with a creamy tomato soup version for this ...
Three Cheese Manicotti With Spinach and Prosciutto
Okay, when it comes to the holidays, my family tends to do the traditional American-holiday meal, such as the turkey dinner for Thanksgiving, the seafood dinner for Christmas Eve, and a great tasting ham for Christmas and Easter. But being Italians, we always have to add one of our traditional Italian dishes to the mix. Thanksgiving and Easter it is usually a lasagne. Christmas Eve it might be ...