No Cook Tomato Pasta Topping
Great Summertime Pasta Dish! Place this sauce over your warm pasta and dig in. It’s perfect for those summer tomatoes and basil. Light and delicious!
Cinnamon Beans Portuguese Style
Another take on Portuguese Beans inspired by a Cousin Perry recipe, and this 100 year old picture of the Freitas Family. Yep, these are my relatives in this photo … gone but not without leaving a rich culture behind. Pictured is the celebration following the traditional yearly pig butchering.
The ingredients in this recipe might surprise you … especially the amount of cinnamon used. Morcela sausage is another main ingredient but not always available locally or certain times of the year. I opted for Portuguese Chourico instead. Linguica could easily be used. The secret is to grind the sausage … adding to the beans deliciously spicy bits to tease the palate.
Give this a try! Deliciously spicy!
Monterey Jack Cheese & Green Chile Sausage
Before beginning this recipe I recommend reading the directions for linguica making, here. This will acquaint you with supplies needed and casing, grinding and stuffing particulars.
Have fun and enjoy!
Au Gratin Potatoes and Peas
This is a side dish with a main dish capability. It’s a great vegetarian meal. Add a hardboiled egg on the side per person for a hearty meal. The recipe comes together quickly with pantry ingredients.
One Pan Pasta
William Sonoma make over to fit my available ingredients and to serve the pasta and tomatoes al dente without high alcohol content for the kiddos. Vegetarian perfect with amazing flavor.
Add Anchovies if you like. And for my idea of a true puttanesca sauce add a pinch or two of red pepper flakes when adding the garlic.
Super Bowl Perfect Soups and Beans
These are great options for Super Bowl Sunday. New Recipes to come soon!
Barbecued Brisket Soup
Portuguese Chili Beans
Cheeseburger Soup
Portuguese Beans with Linguica
Beef Corn Chowder
Rustic Bread White Bean and Greens Soup
Easy Baked Ziti
How about this for a Holiday Meal. So easy and So delicious. Another dinner prepped by my oldest! This recipe uses the canned tomatoes we had shipped from Italy. Check out how we found this delicious tomato sauce. Not to worry, Sclafani Crushed Tomato Sauce is also available on Amazon. It’s worth a try!
This is one of those meals that preps quickly then bakes ’til bubbly. If your family and friends are into pasta they’ll love this.
White Turkey Chili
A great chili variation! But don’t take my word for it … Give it a try! This is a quick pantry recipe when you want something healthy & hearty but don’t have a lot of time to cook. If you’re a purest (cooking all the beans from scratch) it’s a tasty recipe worth the effort.
Cheese and Peas Pasta
Yep, I love pasta! When I see a pasta dish that looks this good I’ve got to try it! This pasta dish was inspired by the Pasta Queen as seen in the Fall Recipe Issue of William Sonoma California catalog. I made the recipe as is the first time around but found it a little bland … lacking depth. (Admittedly, I just recovered my taste & sense of smell after a bout of covid.) I’ll stick with my additions. Give this a try if you love pasta and of course peas.
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Tex Mex Vegetarian Lasagna
Today is Pasta Sunday, and I decided to do a changeup! You know how some vegetarian lasagna recipes are just missing something (like meat!). Well, with this recipe you don’t even go there! This recipe has all the ingredients it needs to be perfectly delicious. My guest was surprised to find the sauce has V-8 … mainly because he doesn’t like V-8, or is it Worcestershire? Actually, I use both in cooking and normally don’t mention it to him. No Worcestershire in this recipe!
Lots of good ingredients. And a very surprising vegetarian lasagna!