italian recipes

Tips for Family Pizza Night and Giveaway

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Homemade pizza has always been something fun for me. I remember my mom making it and as a mom I make it now too. The best part is that we make individual pizzas and everyone gets to make their own exactly how they like it! MyBlogSpark and Pillsbury sent me a kit with the Pillsbury [...]

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World Pasta Day and Recipes

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Today is World Pasta Day! This is a holiday I can definitely get behind because I love, love, love pasta! As much as I love it you would think I would make it fresh from scratch, but I don’t. I use the boxed pasta like so many others do. Barilla and DaVinci are the brands [...]

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4 Delicious Salads with Tuna for Summer

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In the summer when it is very hot we do not necessarily like to cook all that much inside. We are actually overdue for a new air conditioner for the house and so even turning on the stovetop can add unwanted extra heat to the house this time of year. The following are some of [...]

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Easy Parmesan White Swai Recipe

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We just finished dinner with  and I had to share this super easy swai recipe with you all. I’m overdue to go to the grocery store so I had to use what I had on hand and it was really a very good meal. Fish is a healthy food that I am trying to serve [...]

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Chicken Parmesan Casserole

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Yummy! I found this recipe on Pinterest and it sounded good and tonight I finally gave it a try. I was surprised at how much it actually does taste like chicken parmesan! The recipe is simple enough and you can use shortcut items as much or as little as you like. For instance the original [...]

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Robyn’s Easy Lasagna Recipe

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The weather is cooling off which means oven items are back on my list of things to make for dinner. Tonight I decided on lasagna. I did a super easy version tonight though. By the way, this is a vegetarian version that you would never realize that about. Trust me! Robyn’s Easy Lasagna 1 1/2 [...]

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Holland House Basil Shrimp Pasta and Broccoli

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Tonight I tried a new recipe and a new product. The product was Holland House White Cooking Wine with Lemon. Now I cook with wine fairly often and so I wasn’t really sure about using “cooking wine” as many chefs honestly turn their nose up at it. However, I am not a big wine connoisseur [...]

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Shrimp Sunday – Lemony Shrimp with Asparagus and Pasta

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Even though I do not consider myself religious, I was raised as a Catholic and so fish on Friday was a common occurrence, especially during lent. Even in our public school we seemed to have fish sticks each Friday (one of the few school foods I liked). I still love fish, but everyone at our [...]

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Friday Family Favorites Meme–Spaghetti with Red Sauce

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My days are a little off this week – I was thinking it was Tuesday, not Friday – oops! Anyway, I still made it. A reminder off what this new meme is about. Each Friday I will share my version of a family favorite meal and I would love for you to share yours as [...]

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Tomato Basil Chicken Sausages Over Penne With Tomatoes & Goat Cheese (and giveaway)

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I get a lot of requests to review various food items and I just don’t have time to do them all, the other day though the Nakano Italian Herb Seasoned Red Wine Vinegar caught my eye because it has 50% less sodium than the competition! Anything that says less sodium catches my eye these days [...]

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