Category Archives: Pasta

Vegetarian Vodka Sauce

Posted on January 8, 2015 by tbuzzee

Sometimes, you just want a nice bowl of pasta with a zippy sauce, but mebbe could do without adding meat (we are just over the holidays, and all that excess, after all). This sauce, being a vodka sauce, is not … Continue reading →

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The Doris Project (TDP) Week 40: Corn Casserole

Posted on October 15, 2014 by tbuzzee

This week’s Doris Project was a challenge. The recipe, hand written on a scrap of paper, carried only the barest of instruction: ingredients, oven temp, and time; no mention of what to do or how to assemble the casserole. And … Continue reading →

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Sweet Potato Lasagna

Posted on August 18, 2014 by tbuzzee

A faceplace friend posted a recipe from satisfyingeats.com for a grain free, slow cooker sweet potato lasagna – and it looked and sounded good! But I needed to make a few, small changes. See, my slow cooker – barely nine … Continue reading →

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Parfait! Manicotti Crêpes

Posted on August 15, 2014 by tbuzzee

Looks good, no? Tubes of pasta filled with a rich, tasty ricotta cheese mixture, then slathered in tomato sauce and more cheese and baked to perfection. Except… There’s no pasta in this dish, savory sun dried tomato crêpes more than … Continue reading →

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The Doris Project (TDP) Week 29: One-Pot Ravioli

Posted on July 30, 2014 by tbuzzee

This week’s post from The Doris Project bag is – surprise! – pasta. What can I say? Mom likes her pasta recipes (always handy for pitch-in suppers), and, while I must admit to being more than a bit skeptical about … Continue reading →

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Feta and Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta Salad

Posted on July 10, 2014 by tbuzzee

We were planning to picnic at a Ravinia concert for July Fourth, and I was looking for foods that I wouldn’t have to worry too much about; like cantaloupe salsa and this non-mayonnaise based pasta salad. We had coolers and … Continue reading →

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Baked Penne (With Vodka Sauce)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by tbuzzee

As I was saying in yesterday’s post, Rich had a taste for baked penne, and as I was surfing around da Google, I kept coming back to the idea of baked penne with vodka sauce, which just so happens to … Continue reading →

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Slow Cooker Macaroni and Cheese

Posted on February 25, 2014 by tbuzzee

(Nicely) cheesy pasta with crispity edges is a very good thing… or, at least I thought so. We were having very important guests for an early dinner, two lovely young ladies and their dad, and I was looking for something … Continue reading →

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Pizza Stuffed Shells

Posted on February 17, 2014 by tbuzzee

I had a box of large shell pasta in the pantry and wanted it gone – it was a big box, and was taking up entirely too much space. Thing is, I wasn’t really feeling the love for the stuffed … Continue reading →

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Spicy Tomato Sauce

Posted on January 20, 2014 by tbuzzee

We were expecting friends for a day of IKEA furniture assembly help (lots of drawers and fiddly bits), and I wanted to offer them a nice dinner in thanks. Hmmm, pasta and shrimp in a spicy tomato sauce? Yeah, that’ll … Continue reading →

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