Seasoned Chicken Broccoli Pasta
Seasoned Chicken Broccoli Pasta is very tasty, and easy to prepare. This recipe makes use of the classic herbs used for seasoning chicken: thyme, marjoram, sage, and rosemary; red pepper flakes, smoked paprika, and sea salt bring subtle complexity. Colorful broccoli florets with a bit of sautéed garlic rounds out the flavor spectrum and it’s all tied together with pasta. Seasoned Chicken Broccoli Pasta is unfussy and enjoyable for dinner; start out with an Heirloom Tomato Caprese Salad and accompany your dinner with a dry white wine.
Marinade Prep Time: 20 minutes, Meal Prep Time: 10 minutes, Total Time: 50 minutes, excluding marinating time. Serves 4.
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Creamy Mushroom Sage Pasta
Creamy Mushroom Sage Pasta showcases the rich umami-flavor of seasoned sautéed mushrooms in a rich white wine and cream sauce. Serve the sauce topped with pasta and then fried sage leaves and their browned butter and oil for a beautiful and rich main course. Easy to prepare, Creamy Mushroom Sage Pasta makes for a savory, aromatic dinner; we recommend a simple starter of Wilted Arugula Salad, and accompany the meal with a crisp, dry white wine.
Prep Time: 20 minutes, Total Time: 55 minutes. Serves 2.
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Grilled Shrimp Scampi Pasta
Grilled Shrimp Scampi Pasta is a delight! Sweet marinated shrimp, grilled to perfection, top pasta in a zesty sauce for a delicious dish. The marinade and quick grilling yields tasty, soft shrimp full of flavor. The easy to make yet richly flavored sauce coats the pasta and together serve as the perfect platform for the succulent grilled shrimp. Enjoy Grilled Shrimp Scampi Pasta with a Wilted Arugula Salad and a dry white wine for a light but lovely meal. Buon Appétito!
Prep Time Shrimp: 15 minutes, Cook Time Shrimp: 6 minutes. Prep and Cook Time Sauce and Pasta: 10 minutes. Serves 2.
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Ham, Peas, Shiitake Mushrooms Pasta
Ham, Peas, Shiitake Mushrooms Pasta sounds fussy but it’s easy to prepare and so delicious. The velvety sauce with its multi-textured elements is a treat, especially when served with a fanciful cut dried pasta, such as farfalle, rotelle, cavatappi, gemelli or ruote (wagon wheels). Prepare mellow Ham, Peas, Shiitake Mushrooms Pasta and our Greek Cucumber Tomato Salad for an easy relaxed dinner with family and friends, it’s comfort food at its finest.
Prep Time: 40 minutes, Total Time: 90 minutes. Serves 4.
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Sicilian Style Cauliflower Pasta
Sicilian Style Cauliflower Pasta is real Sicilian home cooking, humble but with flavor and texture. Vito’s Dad would make it, adding the pine nuts only on special occasions, always advising that the pinch of nutmeg was crucial to the flavor of the dish and he was right! Use grated sheep or goat milk cheese for true authenticity. Sicilian Style Cauliflower Pasta may be unfamiliar to you, but after your first taste of it, you will be adding this humble dish to your pasta repertoire. Pair it with a Sicilian Orange Salad starter for a very Sicilian meal.
Prep Time: 30 minutes, Total Time: 45 minutes. Serves 4.
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Ginned Tomato Sauce
Ginned Tomato Sauce brings together the woodsy-herbal elements of dry gin with the sweetness of fresh tomatoes. Relatively quick and easy to make, Ginned Tomato Sauce imbues the tomato sauce with the gin’s flavor elements, yielding a surprisingly tasty yet simple sauce. Ginned Tomato Sauce is best served with a long form pasta like fettuccine, linguine, spaghetti or angel hair but go with your favorite. Begin with a starter of Grilled Asparagus, pair this lively, different sauce with a crisp, dry white wine and offer grated Parmesan and Romano cheeses at the table.
Prepare sophisticated Ginned Tomato Sauce at your house and enjoy a dry martini while you’re cooking it, shaken or stirred is up to you.
Prep Time: 15 minutes, Total Time: 45 minutes. Serves 4.
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Grilled Pasta alla Norma
Lush and smoky, Grilled Pasta alla Norma, is our take on this classic Sicilian dish, said to be a favorite of the 19th century composer Vincenzo Bellini and named for his greatest opera heroine. Bellini was a native of Catania, Sicily as was Vito’s paternal grandmother. Here we grill the eggplant, yielding a deep, smoky element, prior to incorporating it into the sauce. Start with our Sicilian Orange Salad, then have our Grilled Pasta alla Norma with penne, ziti or rigatoni pasta, topped with freshly grated ricotta salata, and accompanied by a Nero d’Avolo or Primitivo for a Sicilian themed dinner.
Prep Time: 20 minutes, Total Time: 1 hour, 15 minutes. Serves: 4.
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Fennel Pernod Pasta Sauce
Fresh fennel is so delicious and Pernod, aside from being a perfect digestif, packs the same anise flavor at deeper, more intense level. Together, fennel and Pernod bring their wonderful flavors to Fennel Pernod Pasta Sauce; their intensity is nicely balanced by the acidity of the fresh tomatoes. Silky Fennel Pernod Pasta Sauce is perfect over fettuccine, spaghetti or angel hair pasta or shirataki noodles. We used shirataki fettuccine in the photos below, as we are both following the keto diet, and it was delicious! As a fun aside, Vito grew up enjoying fennel as a snack while Jan first enjoyed fennel when it was offered to him by a waitress at an Italian restaurant when he attended college in Massachusetts!
Prep Time: 30 minutes, Total Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes. Serves 4.
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Fennel and Sausage Sauce for Pasta
Wonderful fennel is so underused. In Fennel and Sausage Sauce for Pasta, it becomes one of the stars, sharing top billing with Italian sausage with fennel seeds. The fennel pieces, fennel seeds in the sausage and feathery fronds team up to keep the delightful licorice taste at the forefront of this dish. Hearty and so tasty, the different elements flavors, textures and shapes in Fennel and Sausage Sauce for Pasta are perfect when paired with Rigatoni, Penne, Ziti, Mostaccioli or Cavatappi pasta. Start with a Wilted Arugula Salad, then on to Fennel and Sausage Sauce for Pasta, both accompanied by a Pinot Grigio for one of our favorite dinners; we hope it becomes one at your house too.
Prep Time: 30 minutes, Total Time: 1 hour, 20 minutes Serves 4.
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Pasta with Chard, Bacon and Cheeses
Pasta with Chard, Bacon and Cheeses hits so many favorites buttons. Pasta? Check! Bacon? Check! Melted Cheeses? Check! Add wonderful colorful, juicy, earthy chard and heavy cream and it’s sure to become a favorite at your house. Pasta with Chard, Bacon and Cheeses, while easy to prepare, makes a tempting presentation for company too, both in looks and aroma. Make some Pasta with Chard, Bacon and Cheeses tonight, perhaps with a Wilted Arugula Salad appetizer, and fall in love with a new favorite!
Prep Time: 30 minutes, Total Time: 1 hour, 10 minutes Serves: 4
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