Italian Recipes are often total comfort food to me. I always have The Best Homemade Marinara stashed in my freezer, and I use it often in recipes like Easy One Skillet Baked Ziti. You can never go wrong with a Copycat Olive Garden Salad to serve with your favorite Italian recipes.
One Skillet Baked Ziti with Meat Sauce is the perfect, easy comforting pasta dish. Baking it in a single skillet makes for quick preparation and very minimal clean up. Perfect for a busy weeknight dinner! Click HERE to save this recipe for Baked Ziti with Meat Sauce to Pinterest! Easy Baked Ziti Recipe Today I …
Take advantage of summer’s colorful and delicious produce and make this Roasted Tomato Crostini with Walnut Almond Pesto and Goat Cheese. Crostini is a great summer appetizer to serve while sitting out on the patio in the evening. Re-sharing from the archives because we have tons of cherry tomatoes and fresh basil growing in our …
Italian Chicken, Mushroom, and Zucchini Skillet is a super easy dinner recipe for busy school nights. It features pan seared chicken tenderloins, zucchini and sliced mushrooms in garlicky herbed tomato sauce. Such an easy Chicken Skillet Recipe! Save this recipe for Italian Chicken, Mushroom, and Zucchini Skillet to Pinterest! Why I love this Chicken Skillet …
This is the BEST marinara sauce! It’s the real deal and the only marinara sauce recipe you’ll want to use from now on! Crushed tomatoes simmer all day with extra-virgin olive oil, oregano, crushed red pepper, plenty of garlic, and a generous helping of Italian red wine. This homemade marinara sauce is rich, but delightfully …
This super simple one-pot pasta features fresh spinach and sun dried tomatoes for a pop of flavor and color. Mix up this sun dried tomato pasta by adding the protein of your choice — Italian Sausage or Chicken are both great! — or keep it as a simple meatless dinner option. Click HERE to save this …
This Italian Sausage Soup with Orzo is a great clean out the fridge recipe! It’s packed with veggies, Italian sausage, orzo, and more! Italian Sausage Soup with Orzo I think we’ve officially crossed the line into fall here in Colorado. We’ve had plenty of cooler days, changing leaves, and pumpkin patch visits, but just as many warm, …
We have had so much rain lately. Thursday was the last day of school and it doesn’t even feel like summer. I’m so over it. I am majorly missing the sunshine. I’m ready to go to the pool with the kids, go on afternoon bike rides now that school is out, and to wear shorts …
I’ve been thinking so much lately about getting back to family meals with intention, reclaiming the kitchen, and making the evening meal a priority. Our focus has been on creating and serving meals for our little family that we all eat in one way or another. With varying schedules and somewhat unpredictable toddler palates on …
A simple, just-spicy-enough arrabbiata sauce you can make from pantry ingredients. Serve it with anything — chicken, sausages, pasta, even your morning eggs! Click HERE to save this recipe for Arrabbiata Sauce! I wish moms got sick days. Like so many families this time of year, we’ve had a round of sore throats and colds. …
I am an official brand advocate for Bel Brands in 2013. While I receive compensation for participation as a brand advocate, opinions are my own. A few years ago I made this recipe for Sun Dried Tomato and Spinach Lasagna Rolls. That was the first time I had ever made lasagna in the roll form, …
National Spaghetti Day is January 4th, so I have teamed up with Barilla Pasta to share a healthy Spaghetti Recipe and offer you an opportunity to win a year supply of Barilla Pasta! I’m sharing a recipe for Baked Turkey Sausage and Vegetable Spaghetti to celebrate National Spaghetti Day. By sharing your own healthy spaghetti …
This Pasta with White Beans, Tomatoes, and Sausage dish was one of the last real meals I cooked before life started to get really crazy with moving. Looking back, I am not entirely sure how I managed to feed my family at all for the past 6 weeks. We have been on an endless cycle …
Right now I need easy food. Really, really easy food. You see we recently packed up a lot of the kitchen. We’re operating on an “essentials only” basis right now. And I don’t have a lot of time to cook. But I don’t want to give up eating well either! Enter these Herbed Ricotta and …
We had a slight break from snow and cold here the past two weeks. It seems Mother Nature was a tad bit confused and sent up temps in the mid-50’s. No complaints from me! But I think things are cooling off again. We had a few snow flurries yesterday afternoon and I feel a bit …
I recently made these Spinach Calzones with Ricotta, Mozzarella, and Sun-Dried Tomatoes and was surprised with how simple they actually were to make. I made the full batch which makes 8 individual sized calzones (meaning you only need 1 per person) and froze most of them for use another time, either lunches or dinner. Now, …
