The Perfect Spring Pick Spring is a favorite season of many, especially in any location where the snow begins to melt and sunshine returns. Weekends bring Farmer’s Breakfast Casseroles. Packing lunches equals Strawberry Aparagus Farro Salad. Dessert shouts out Lemony Lemon Bars. And dinner? This Shrimp Scampi Pasta is a stovetop meal full of light, refreshing flavors that make it an…

Pasta Primavera With Seasonal Veggies This awesomely Perfect Pasta Primavera is for all of us who want (need) an easy and totally yummy way to multiply colorful veggies in our lives. After all, Primavera literally means mixture of fresh vegetables. Tell me I’m not the only person who desperately throws together an obligatory little salad next to a…

Spring cleaning is a refreshing and cathartic ritual, and the kitchen is a great place to begin. Clean out the refrigerator, toss any items with long-past use-by dates, and refresh those old spices parked in a drawer. As you fill your trash and recycling bins, keep one exception in mind: Under no circumstances should you…

View the print-friendly version of this recipe. This chicken parm recipe ranks right up there with some of my other favorite American-Italian foods including: Tuscan Garlic Chicken, and homemade Manicotti.  Don’t forget to serve it with the easiest homemade marinara sauce and tiramisu for dessert! Why I love this meal: My husbands favorite thing to order from an Italian restaurant is chicken parm…

By Linda Gassenheimer From Tribune News Service Orecchiette is a little ear-shaped pasta that is typical of Apulia in Southern Italy. It’s perfect for this vegetarian dish. The small shape captures the sauce and mixes well with the other ingredients. Broccoli rabe adds a crisp texture to the dish. It’s also called rapini and is…

Making stuffed shells is a tedious process. On a busy weeknight, no one has time to meticulously stuff each and every individual par-boiled pasta shell. Do yourself a favor and try this recipe for unstuffed shells instead. You’ll thank us later, for time saved and a tummy satisfied. The base of the dish features butternut squash, leeks,…

When I am in a hurry and have the ingredients on hand, this pasta dish is easy to put together. It’s a standby in my recipe rotations for quick meals. Feel free to use any short tubular pasta. I am partial to fusilli for this dish. While there are many like-sauces on the market shelves,…

I’m one lucky gal. My husband’s favorite menu item is pasta—any shape or recipe. He would opt for a pasta dish every meal of the day if that were an option. And that’s great because he is as tall and slim as the day we married. While he has no desire to actually prepare pasta,…

Imagine a one-pot shrimp pasta dish: a cross between a garlicky scampi and a zippy, lemony piccata, with a little bit of creamy sauce tossed in for good measure. That’s what we envisioned when we started work on this recipe. We wanted tender, succulent shrimp and lots of rich, silky sauce balanced with just enough…

New year, new you, new diet. It’s a familiar refrain. One popular dieting technique is to create a food blacklist. Quitting “carbs” or packaged foods is common, which can mean avoiding supermarket staples like pasta. But do we really need to ban pasta to improve our diets? This is what we call a reductionist approach…