It was another one of those Fridays when we had something in the fridge but the planned meal wasn’t what we wanted. Since it is a Friday, we had a bit more time to make a ragu. What was supposed to be a lamb shawarma became a ragu with egg noodles. For the ragu: 1.5 …
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Tortellini with peppers
I think this weeks theme really is we bought some stuff with no plan and we are seeing what comes out. Tonight, the base was some frozen tortellini and we found some shishito peppers, sweet red peppers, green onions, and pecorino. Made a sauce out of some leftover chicken broth and sour cream. handful shishito …
Texas-style chili with linguine
I had a late meeting tonight so my beautiful wife made her famous linguine with chili. This is a great way to have a healthy dinner without a lot of trouble. The chili was: ground bison garlic, sliced olive oil salt 1 big can diced tomatoes 1 can kidney beans 3 Tbsp fresh oregano chili …
Stealing Giada: Stuffed pork tenderloin with orecchiette and sauce
While cooking something last weekend, Giada and Jade cooking show came on and tonight we are recreating one of the dishes they made. Again, the theme for this week is simple. Took a break while working to butterfly and stuff the pork so that all we had to do at dinner time was cook the …
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Re-purpose Monday: Baked Rigatoni
This is one of those meals that I could only make because of the short ribs we made last night. Although we ate all the meat and peas and most of the potatoes, there was still a ton of sauce that had 3 hours of flavor worked into it. How about turning it into a …
Sunday Funday: Homemade rag pasta with bolognese. Life is good.
My trusty assistant wanted to join me in the kitchen this afternoon because it was supposed to snow. My son really likes making pasta and we should do it more often. We teamed up some rag pasta with a long cook bolognese. For the bolognese we did: 1 medium onion, roughly chopped 2 carrots, roughly …
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Friday Night, Long Week: Pasta Carbonara
Long week and little motivation so it was a bacon and eggs pasta with some spinach because a little green is better than none. Our recipe was: 1 lb dried spaghetti 5 slices bacon, sliced into batons couple handfuls of spinach 5 eggs 2 handfuls of pecirino tons of ground pepper Start making the spaghetti …
Herbie goes too Hollywood pork tenderloin with orecchiette, pancheta, and peas
The name of this dish stems from the fact that I kind of ever did it with the herbs on the pork tenderloin and my wife described it as Herbie goes too Hollywood which led to a whole discussion of the merits of talking VW bugs. Needless to say the pork tenderloin needs some work …
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New Years Day – Son’s Birthday
9 years ago today we welcomed our son as the first born in Poudre Valley Hospital at 12:21am of 2010. As with every year, he gets to choose what he wants to eat. This year, nothing fancy, just spaghetti and meatballs. What a great way to get the year started. Our tomato sauce is really …
