Eating and living locally . . . mindfully . . . simply.
So, this week is all about pasta. It is such a convenient conveyance for a wide array of sauces, salads, and main dishes. One of the things I’ve discovered by cooking through Simply in Season, however, is that you don’t have to use pasta in order to get the same convenience!
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Success! Sort of. I made either really thick pasta or really good dumplings. Still, I couldn’t stop eating it. Not bad for my first time making homemade pasta without a pasta roller or cutter!
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This week we’re going to tackle making our own pasta, as well as all the fun things you can do with it. Ready?
When I saw this recipe in last year’s Mother Earth News, I knew I wanted to give it a try. A year later, I finally got around to it. Pin It
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Now that I’m trying to wrap up Simply in Season, I’m coming across recipes that I wasn’t too interested in making last time I cracked it open. Great Green Vegetable Pasta, with its use of blended up cottage cheese (a technique I used before but don’t recall which recipe), was one of them. So I decided to wing a variation on my own.
I was so excited to be chosen to come up with a recipe for Kitchen PLAY featuring Dreamfields Pasta with the theme “Entree for Two.” Because, as you know, I’m always cooking for two. During the week, DH and I are busy with a ton of activities so we are often looking for a quick meal. Enter the pasta . . .
I’ve had this recipe in my head for awhile now. A pasta salad with tuna and Mediterranean flavors. On Saturday, my husband spent much of the day trimming trees in our backyard and then picking up the branches. Since I wasn’t sure when he’d take a break for lunch, I decided it was a great time to experiment. Pin It
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Here’s another super easy (and fast) “recipe” that I made up this past weekend. I have discovered that I much prefer to use the spicy salad green mix in cooked form rather than try to eat a salad that makes my eyes water. A quick saute’ makes the heat much more bearable.
I had a bag of spinach to use up and no idea what to do with it. I thought hmm, pasta sounds good tonight. So I searched the internet and found my inspiration from Aggie’s Kitchen.
This super easy weeknight meal from The Simple Art of EatingWell: 400 Easy Recipes, Tips and Techniques for Delicious, Healthy Meals (EatingWell) is very adaptable.
