While recovering from dental surgery, Alex was on soft diet for days. When she was ready to eat regular food again, she made …
Pasta Recipes
Pasta served in every imaginable way -- as soups, salads or tossed with your favorite sauce.
Spinach and Cream Cheese Stuffed Cannelloni With Meat Sauce
Stuffing cannelloni is not hard. Stuff them without cooking them in water. Lay them on a baking dish, smother with sauce, …
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Spanish-style Sardines Pasta
In cooking sardines pasta, choose the sardines with caution. The ones that come in jars are more firm and better-flavored. I …
Fully-loaded Mac and Cheese
This baked mac and cheese dish derives its flavors, textures and bits of colors from a lot of things -- chopped bacon, …
Alex’s Japanese Carbonara
Years ago, Alex and I spent the afternoon at Greenbelt where we had late lunch at a Japanese fusion restaurant that has since …
Tomato Cabbage Orzo Soup
Cooked with bone broth and plenty of herbs, this tomato cabbage orzo soup is made even more tasty with the addition of …
Salted Egg Pasta Carbonara
If you're scared of eating semi-raw eggs in your pasta carbonara, switch to powdered salted eggs for a tastier noodle dish. …
Sam’s Mac and Cheese With Gouda, Provolone and Mozzarella
Involve your kids in holiday cooking by using fancy pasta shapes for this delectable mac and cheese with gouda, provolone and …
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Filipino Sweet-style Spaghetti
Loved by generations of children, Filipino sweet-style spaghetti has been around long, long before Jollibee was born. I …
Ground Lamb and Sun-dried Tomato Spaghetti With Lemon Garlic Sauce
Can 200 grams of ground lamb feed four people? Sure, it can! Combine the ground lamb with tasty ingredients like sun-dried …
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Alex’s Japanese-inspired Spaghetti
A few years ago, Alex and I had a lunch date at Greenbelt. She brought me to a Japanese fusion restaurant where we shared a …
Ratatouille Pasta With Bacon and Parmesan
While stews are associated with cold weather, it isn't necessarily true for vegetable stews like ratatouille. Whatever the …
Chicken Pasta Mole
Cooked pasta was tossed with leftover mole sauce (from Alex's birthday dinner with her friends last weekend), and topped with …
Chicken Broccoli Pasta With Cream Cheese Sauce
Excluding the cooking time for the noodles, this chicken broccoli pasta cooks in less than ten minutes. The recipe is very …
Alex’s Lasagne With Pesto and White Sauce
It's ninety days until New Year's Eve. Subtract two weeks from those ninety days and that's how many days until Christmas. …
Pasta With Mushrooms, Black Olives and Sun-dried Tomatoes
A vegan dish that I made for Sam, this pasta with mushrooms, black olives and sun-dried tomatoes was so good that even …
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