Penne Rosa Noodles and Company Recipe One thing I miss about living in Northern Virginia is having lunch with my girlfriends at Noodles and Company. My "go to" dish was my favorite, their Penne Rosa. In the past 6 years of being gone, I think we have only tried to replicate this dish once. Penne Rosa: Spicy tomato cream sauce, penne pasta, ...
Italian Recipes
Potato Gnocchi Recipe
I love when potatoes are on sale as they are so versatile I can do so much with them. When they hit $.10 a pound I stock up and it's play time in the kitchen... for Bob! Most gnocchi recipes call for russet potatoes but we like to make ours with a sweeter potato... the Yukon Gold. Don't be intimated to make potato gnocchi as it is not as hard as ...
Mushroom Risotto Recipe With Shitake Mushrooms & Leeks
Mushroom Risotto Recipe Whenever I watch Hell's Kitchen and see Gordon Ramsey screaming at contestants for ruining the risotto I always raise an eyebrow. Making a good risotto is not that hard if you focus {maybe that is their issue?}. There are recipes I find that sound great and we end up changing them to our taste and very rarely do we find ...
Sauteed Green Beans
Ah the green bean.. so many ways to prepare them. Do you steam, sautee, roast, deep fry, add to the slow cooker, or ...? With all the cooking variations for green beans there seem to be a theme of what goes well with them such as bacon, bacon, and bacon. What... my family doesn't eat bacon {they do not know WHAT they are missing!}. Since Bob ...
How to Make the Perfect Crostini
How to Make the Perfect Crostini Okay, well these might not be the perfect crostinis but my daughter thinks so! You would think that toasting bread in the oven wouldn't have too many variations but we do ours a little different that it gives it some flavor. Crostino (meaning "little toast" in Italian) is an Italian appetizer consisting of a small ...