My homemade, copycat version of Ruby Tuesday’s pasta salad. Rotini pasta, diced ham, peas and green pepper make for the perfect side dish for a summer party! Generally speaking, I’m not a “chain restaurant” kind of girl. I live for finding little hole in the wall cafes, family-run diners and restaurants that only use locally-grown…
Pasta & Grains
Baked Mac and Cheese
The perfect mac and cheese casserole! Rich and cheesy on the inside, crunchy homemade breadcrumbs on the outside. Posting this recipe is so overdue I’m almost mad at myself. This is my go-to in the depths of winter, and I’ve been making this for as long as I can remember. Every time I make it…
Veggie Lasagna Rollups
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #PremiumPrep #CollectiveBias || These tender vegetables, gooey cheese and perfectly seasoned sauce are so hearty you will forget you ever put meat in your lasagna! I’ve always been a “load it up with meat” kind of gal when…
Cilantro Lime Brown Rice
Forget Chipotle – make cilantro lime brown rice at home! Fluffy brown rice gets an upgrade with a healthy dose of lime and cilantro. Recently my father asked me how I like to prepare brown rice, and it was a nice reminder of one of my favorite side dishes: Cilantro Lime Brown Rice! It’s super…
Lobster Scampi with Cheese Tortellini
A light and bright dish with a nice lemony white wine sauce to complement fresh lobster over a bed of cheesy tortellini. We got a burst of Indian Summer this last week in Massachusetts, and while I don’t love the heat (and that we already put away the air conditioner units for the year… oops), I…
Shrimp Pasta Salad
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #GiveItASparkle #CollectiveBias || A colorful, simple shrimp pasta salad with homemade Italian vinaigrette and shrimp that’s sure to be a hit at your next summer party! Hey friends! LONG time, no talk. We’re almost completely settled in the…
Ramen “Spaghetti” Bake
A cheesy, meaty, family-sized casserole featuring a surprise ingredient – ramen! Week three of of the ramen & funfetti challenge is upon us! The weather has started to cool down a bit, so I was aching for something warm. Warm comfort food. One of my standby comfort foods is spaghetti, and I figured this week’s…
Easy Chicken Ramen Stir Fry
A simple stir fry chock-full of vegetables and chicken using an old college staple as the base: Ramen! Welcome to the first week’s ramen recipe for the Ramen & Funfetti Challenge! There’s such a stigma around ramen. It’s the food all college students end up stockpiling in their dorm room after their first semester. You…
Stuffed Pepper Dip
A great addition to any party! The filling from my favorite stuffed pepper recipe with a little extra cheese makes for a perfectly scoopable dip. I have a thing for chunky-style dips. If it’s smooth and creamy, I probably won’t partake in it… the only real exception being queso. Mmm, queso. Salsa? It’s gotta have…
Spicy Quinoa Stuffed Peppers
I know we’re a couple days away from Christmas, and the fact that I’m posting a completely non-holiday themed recipe is blasphemous. I know. I’m sorry. But the reality is that people do need to eat food that isn’t covered in sugar and chocolate in order to button up their pants and live past 30. They’re…
Ground Turkey Baked Rigatoni
This baked rigatoni is full of ground turkey, veggies and – most importantly – cheesy goodness! I apologize for the lack of posts lately. Between the Boston Marathon Bombings and a member of my boyfriend’s family ending up hospitalized in what turned into a much more difficult surgery than had been originally anticipated……
No-Boil Mac ‘n Cheese
I hate doing dishes. I hate dirtying dishes. So when I find an opportunity to eliminate a step that would dirty another dish, I jump on it. And this is one of them – you can skip the process of boiling water and draining your pasta, and just do it all at once in one pan. And…
Baked Broccoli Mac & Cheese
So, as you may have read in my previous post, Apple and I are not friends at the moment. Therefore, I lost all the in-process photos from this recipe. The only picture I have is the “after” because I had emailed it to myself to test my wifi. Sigh. Anyway – I love broccoli….
White Chicken Lasagna
I really liked the idea of this recipe, but after I made it I decided I didn’t like having as many artichoke hearts in it, so I cut the amount of artichoke and upped the amount of chicken instead. White Chicken Lasagna [Adapted from Tasty Tidbits] 3 cups shredded chicken 8 ounces artichoke hearts (drained…
Ground Turkey Stuffed Shells
These ground turkey stuffed shells are my most popular recipe of all time! Large pasta shells stuffed to the brim with ground turkey and cheese and covered with tomato sauce and yes, even more cheese. I wanted to make stuffed shells, and it needed to be with whatever was lying around the apartment…