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Parmigiana di Melanzane (Eggplant Parmigiana) Recipe on Food52. Test Kitchen-Approved Author Notes This is a classic version of parmigiana di melanzane as they would make it in Sicily.

Parmigiana di Melanzane (Eggplant Parmigiana) Recipe on Food52

Martha Stewart's One-Pan Pasta Recipe - Homemade Variations. Best One-Pot Pasta Recipe With Creamy Tomato Sauce, Cooked All In the Same Pan. Easy Recipes, TV Shows and Videos. One Pot Italian Chicken Tortellini Recipe - Diethood. One Pot Italian Chicken Tortellini Recipe – A delicious and easy dinner recipe packed with chicken, zucchini, cheese, and tortellini!

One Pot Italian Chicken Tortellini Recipe - Diethood

Get ready for a wonderful, picky-eater approved, 30-minute meal prepared in just one pot! Italian Chicken Tortellini is the perfect and quick pasta recipe for your weeknight dinners with chicken, fresh mozzarella, tortellini and veggies. It’s very easy to make and it tastes incredible. You guys, my family loved loved loved this meal. Normally, I try to stay away from pastas and lots of cheeses, let alone talk too much about them on Diethood, buuuuut, some things just deserve to be told. 10 Pasta Hacks That We Know Work Because We Tried Them.

Best Pizza Roses - How to Make Pizza Roses. Bgecko added: Spaghetti Squash Lasagna Bowls - The Balanced Berry. These spaghetti squash lasagna bowls are hearty, comforting and absolutely delicious.

Bgecko added: Spaghetti Squash Lasagna Bowls - The Balanced Berry

The perfect fall dinner! Blogging can be pretty high maintenance, especially if you blog about food. Putting together a recipe, testing it (multiple times), photographing it, editing the photos then finally putting it all together in one pretty blog post is hard work. Let me be real – this post is not one of those high maintenance posts. 40 Ways To Make Creative Mac And Cheese With All Your Favorite Pastas.

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One-Pot Caprese Pasta Dinner Recipe. One-Pot Caprese Pasta Dinner: It’s all cooked in the same pot!

One-Pot Caprese Pasta Dinner Recipe

The quickest, most delicious pasta dinner you will ever make! HI! Happiest of Sundays, everyone! You guys. It’s the 1st of June! Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Gouda Cheese Sauce. Cruft: Lasagna Cupcakes. When Intelligentsia Coffee opened in Pasadena recently, I was intrigued the lasagna cupcakes they served.

Cruft: Lasagna Cupcakes

The cupcakes are made by Heirloom LA, a catering business. About the size of a muffin, a single lasagna cupcake was a delicious meal. After seeing how much my daughter enjoyed them (she ate my entire cupcake and I had to order a second one), I decided I had to try making them at home. After a bit of research, here is my method. The girls love them and take them to school as lunch. The ingredients are fairly simple.

Spray or wipe the cupcake tin with olive oil for prevent sticking and add a little flavor. Once you filled in the first layer, gently press another wrapper in, forming another cup. Once you've placed the second wrapper, repeat the filling as you see fit. A bit of Mozzarella cheese on top of it all. The Best Pasta Sauce Ever. Do me a favor: MAKE THIS PASTA SAUCE FOR DINNER TONIGHT!

The Best Pasta Sauce Ever

I think you’ll thank me. It’s absolutely, positively, hands down, 100% the best pasta sauce I have ever tasted. And I’ve had a lot of pasta sauce experience so you must understand how bold of a statement I just made. The best part is: I made it myself! And once you read how easy it is, you’ll be able to make it too! I know. But, through my love of Italian restaurants, I developed a love for vodka sauce, a sweet mixture of tomato and cream with a hint of spice from the vodka. But truthfully, I think the secret is the shallots. Anyway, I couldn’t be more proud of my concoction that I just needed to share it with the rest of the world. Step 1: Chop up 1 lg. shallot, 2 cloves garlic and 1/4 onion.

Gnocchi with a grater. Do you ever feel like a kitchen incompetent?

gnocchi with a grater

That despite what seems like The Entire Rest of the World being able to cook something flawlessly, even going so far as to boast, “This is so EASY to make!” Each and every time you try it, you fail? Believe me, it’s not just you. Before this past weekend, nothing made me feel more unskilled and less deserving of your readership than gnocchi, which was a damned shame because it’s probably my favorite pasta in the entire world. Chicken Stuffed Shells Recipe. I love stuffed shells… From Italian and taco stuffed shells all the way to chicken stuffed shells.

Chicken Stuffed Shells Recipe

Chicken stuffed shells are a great way to make good use of left over chicken. I have seen many different recipes all using different methods but I decided to try this one. I prefer Italian flavors over cream of mushrooms soup and such. Even though I am not a big fan of ricotta cheese a lot of it goes into this recipe. Not only does ricotta go into this recipe but mozzarella and parmesan cheeses go into it as well. Ingredients: 1 box jumbo uncooked pasta shells 6 garlic cloves (minced) 2 chicken breasts (cooked and shredded) 1 (30 oz) container ricotta cheese 1/3 cup Italian breadcrumbs 1 ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon pepper 1 ½ teaspoons dried parsley 6 basil leaves (torn) 1/3 cup half and half 28 oz pasta sauce ¼ cup parmesan cheese 1 cup mozzarella cheese Cooking Instructions: Step 1: Pre-heat the oven to 375 degrees.

Gnocchi Mac & Cheese. Ahhhh mac and cheese.

Gnocchi Mac & Cheese

Those mere words stir up feelings of comfort...home....the food you loved as a kid.