Linguine with burst cherry tomato sauce

Summer food forever (thanks to my CSA box).

FoodThe PasticheSeptember 2, 2020dinner, summer, cherry tomatoes, pasta, easy, quick dinner, CSA Comment

Quick sharp cheddar mac and cheese

For when you *need* it.

FoodThe PasticheFebruary 24, 2017mac and cheese, quick, weeknight dinner, dinner, panko, cheese, pastaComment

Butternut squash and ricotta stuffed shells with garlic béchamel

I cannot believe this is my first stuffed shells recipe on here. They have been a favorite dish of mine since I was really little. I grew up having the standard Barilla version of ricotta, mozzarella, and marinara sauce all the time, and it was one of my brothers' and my favorite dinners. It still is! I put it in the same category as lasagna: my ideal comfort foods category, except it's even easier to throw together...

FoodThe PasticheDecember 8, 2016dinner, stuffed shells, pasta, butternut squash, bechamel, vegetarian, fall, comfort food Comments

Fettuccine with vodka cream sauce, roasted red peppers, and andouille sausage

Tomato cream sauce is a comfort food of fairly high regard in my world...

FoodThe PasticheSeptember 14, 2016pasta, fettucine, vodka sauce, tomatoes, sausage, spicy, dinner, fall, winter, spring, asiago Comments

Spaghetti puttanesca

Some of my favorite foods are those extremely divisive ones: olives, pickled anything, sauerkraut, radicchio, capers, red onions, pungent blue cheese and its drier/sharper counterparts. I could actually devour any of the aforementioned things by the bowlful, especially olives. This brings me to a tangential point which is that Jon recently told me, after my proclamation of loving Campari, that a fondness and preference for bitter foods is "a robust predictor for Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism and everyday sadism." (How weird/interesting is that?!) Never having fancied myself a Machiavellian, I'm choosing to ignore this study and continue on with my eating habits...

FoodThe PasticheMay 16, 2016dinner, pasta, spaghetti, olives, tomatoes, parmesan, summer, spring, vegetarian Comments

Pappardelle with wild mushroom cream

Mushrooms are a somewhat nostalgic flavor and memory-inducing thing for me...

FoodThe PasticheFebruary 10, 2016mushrooms, wild mushrooms, dinner, winter, spring, summer, fall, pasta, pappardelle, cream, parmesan Comments

Jon's four-cheese lasagna

As much as I love cooking, I just as much love being cooked for. Why does it always taste better when someone else makes it?! Fact. And even if by ‘cooking’ I just mean being poured a bowl of cereal...it’s still the best! Whether it’s a hearty dinner or something simple and thrown together, it just always feels special. It sounds strange, but I so look forward to a day of having little munchkins running around my house who might one day decide to make me breakfast or something special for Mother’s Day—I think I’ll find it the absolute sweetest thing on earth.

Anyway, Jon makes a great lasagna, and it’s one of my very favorite home-cooked, indulgent comfort foods...

FoodThe PasticheDecember 29, 2015lasagna, winter, fall, spring, pasta, tomatoes, cheese, four cheese lasagna, make-ahead, dinner2015Comment

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