< These meatballs with tomato cream sauce is not your traditional spaghetti and meatball recipe. The addition of heavy cream changes the game!   I don’t eat meat too often but every now and then I crave a good meatball.  Maybe it’s my body’s way […]

This lemon basil pasta is simple to make yet big on flavor.  The sauce is made while pasta cooks so dinner is ready in less than twenty minutes. The weekends are usually reserved for our heavier meals.  During the week we eat lots of salads […]

  This lemon asparagus pasta with goat cheese is simple to make.  In the time it takes to cook the pasta the meal is almost done.  The sauce is combined with goat cheese for a creamy finish. Spring is almost here and the springtime veggies […]

This Mexican noodle soup with veggies is cooked in a spicy tomato broth.  Thin angel hair noodles are paired with lots of veggies for extra nutrition. It was Sunday – so soup – and I was trying to figure out what I wanted to make. […]

< These easy vegetarian unstuffed shells eliminate most of the hard work that comes with shells but keeps all the same great flavors. Growing up as a kid my mom didn’t cook a lot.  She had a few meals she would make and stuffed shells […]

As you know by now if you have read any of my previous posts – we don’t eat a ton of meat.  We may eat meat once on the weekend and sometimes not at all.  I always have been picky about eating meat and before […]

I just finished a 5 day fast program and the day after they recommend to eat lighter.  So I decided I wanted to make some soup.  But I wanted minimal work and not a lot of veggie chopping.  I thought about making my Tomato Florentine […]

My husband and I had a kid free weekend recently.  We went to brunch and hit up a little Italian store that I have been wanting to go to for awhile now.  In addition to all the pottery and pantry staples this store had homemade […]

This one pot orzo and veggies takes very little time to make AND saves time on cleanup.  Pasta, tons of veggies and beans are combined in this one pot dish for an easy, flavorful meal.   So I am not a big crockpot girl.  We […]

It is beginning to finally feel like fall which means I am feeling like comfort food.  What I really wanted to make for dinner the other night was some Mac and cheese but didn’t feel like something as heavy.  I figured if I added some […]