My Favorite Recipes

Recipes for my Family and Friends

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Minestrone Soup

March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

This is a soup that I got from Giada DeLaurentis and has become a staple for fall and winter nights. It has great flavor, fairly healthy and easy to modify. Don’t have chard? Use kale or any other dark green leaf vegetable. Don’t have potato? Use zucchini. No [...]

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Tags: Food Network · Soup

Simple Marinara Sauce

January 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This is a simple recipe that makes any pasta taste great.  Its even better with fresh homemade pasta.  Its a fairly quick recipe, so start heating your water to cook your pasta right before you start making the sauce.  Once the sauce and pasta are ready, add them together and if the sauce is too [...]

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Tags: Basics · Italian

Salsa

February 20th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Now that our friend Jim has moved to New Zealand, he has had a craving for good ol’ salsa as many of the condiments down under don’t have that spicy bite and the salsas they do sell are more like Taco Bell taco sauce. So, per Jim’s request, her is an easy tomato and [...]

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Tags: Basics · Mexican · Rick Bayless