We love our old macaroni and cheese recipe, which is how my mom used to make it–making a white sauce with butter, flour and dry mustard and adding in grated Cheddar. I like it with onion but the girls prefer I leave it out. But I keep playing around with recipes from Lidia’s Italy in…
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Chard and Ricotta Pie
I keep trying to like chard, partially because it seems to grow so readily here! But I’m not a huge fan. The other night I made this chard and ricotta pie because I had chard in the garden and ricotta in the fridge that needed using up. I used Parmesan cheese and half and half…
Pasta with Fresh Tomatoes, Onions and Cheese
This recipe for Pasta with Fresh Tomatoes, Onions and Cheese is such a flexible “recipe” — I love it! All you REALLY need are fresh tomatoes and some kind of cheese and pasta. My original inspiration from this came from Don’t Eat Your Heart Out Cookbook. (That’s an affiliate link. I’ll make a small bit…
Butternut Squash, Indian Style in the Slow Cooker
I had not thought of butternut squash as an Indian dish but I was browsing through The Indian Slow Cooker: 50 Healthy, Easy, Authentic Recipes and spotted this recipe. This was delicious! When I’m cooking Indian food for dinner I like having at least 2 dishes plus rice, and at least one of those dishes…
Summer Marinara Sauce for Eggplant & Zucchini Parmesan
The two of us living here right now LOVE Eggplant Parmesan and I usually do something similar to this eggplant Parmesan recipe. I’ve also made zucchini Parmesan. The first time I made that by just frying the zucchini but not breading them first and it definitely lacked a little something, although it was still good….