Pasta with Mushroom and Tomato Confit »

Pasta with Mushroom and Tomato Confit

I love tomatoes. I like them on salad, as a base for pasta sauce and for sauteeing meat and veggies. Tomatoes are abundant in the market again, so I thought of making tomato confit. Confit is a process of preserving food by slowly cooking it in fats. Duck or goose are commonly used in making [...]

Casserecce with Silken Tofu Alfredo Sauce »

Casserecce with Silken Tofu Alfredo Sauce

For quite some time now, I’ve been experimenting on making a healthier pasta sauce for my family, I am trying to considerably lessen our intake of high cholesterol, high fat products such as dairy. I’ve been unsuccessful with my yogurt sauce experiments and my family cannot take anymore, I just told them, at least it’s healthy, they were kind enough to [...]

Okra and Chicken Spaghetti »

Okra and Chicken Spaghetti

Happy 2010 everyone!  I can’t believe the fist decade of the new millennium is over, how time flies. My daughter is back to school and that officially makes the Holidays over for me.. I still feel a little lazy though, that’s the side effect of  Holidays to me and too much baking, I was baking [...]

Macaroni Chicken Salad »

Macaroni Chicken Salad

Macaroni  salad is my mother’s favorite, she makes it for both Christmas’ Noche Buena meal  and on New Year’s Media Noche. She’s proud of her macaroni salad; I, personally am not a fan of this, I can only eat one or two bites just to please my mom…everyone thinks I’m odd for not liking it..for some reason [...]

Macaroni Soup (Sopas) »

Macaroni Soup (Sopas)

Macaroni soup or simply sopas as we call it is perfect for cold rainy days like we had  this weekend.  My kids love this milky pasta soup and I made this especially for just the two of them. This soup is very hearty, it’s healthy and nutritious, it’s got everything in it - meat, veggies, [...]

Healthy Baked Rigatoni with Bechamel Sauce »

Healthy Baked Rigatoni with Bechamel Sauce

This is my take on Giada’s classic baked rigatoni with bechamel sauce recipe. I added a twist on it to make it more healthy and rich in fiber.
We love baked pasta with bechamel sauce, it’s one of our family’s favorite and one that I often made before. I thought of tweaking this [...]

Tuna Pasta Margherita »

Tuna Pasta Margherita

This dish is one of my favorite pasta dish to make because it is super easy, quick and really good, perfect for busy days when you barely have time to cook. It’s a spin-off of pizza Margherita, which is so called because of the 3 main and only toppings/ingredients: basil, tomatoes and mozarella which [...]

Caserecce Pesto with Ham »

Caserecce Pesto with Ham

Can you possibly fall in love with a pasta? That’s close to what I felt (okay, that’s an exaggeration) when I first saw this uniquely shaped pasta, it’s called caserecce. It looks like mini scrolls, I knew instantly it would be perfect for my pesto sauce waiting at home in the fridge ( it was [...]

Easy Bechamel Lasagna »

Easy Bechamel Lasagna

The very first time I tasted lasagna, I really liked it and I did not even know what it’s called and I thought that it was a really, really wide layers of cheese singles and meat sauce. As with any food that I like or has become a favorite of mine, I always look for [...]

Easy Pesto Recipe »

Easy Pesto Recipe

You can make batches of this recipe and store it in your fridge or the freezer. It is very handy and you can use it in different food preparations just like the good old basic tomato sauce. The classic pesto recipe calls for pine nuts or pinoglis (to the Italians) and parmegiano reggiano. [...]

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