Recipes - Italian-inspired
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Pasta with Pesto, Tomatoes and Mushrooms
Quick, fresh and healthy -- that's what we love in a pasta dish. This one has it all!
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Pesto Pizza with Cherry Tomatoes
Pesto gives this quick and easy pizza zing. Homemade pesto? Even Better!
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Classic Basil Pesto
Homemade pesto is more intense and flavorful than already prepared pesto from the supermarket and a bit thicker as well.
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Creamy Swiss Chard with Cheese Ravioli
Quick and Easy, here's one dish to help with your Swiss Chard abundance.
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Chopped Margherita Salad
Chopped Margherita Salad is a cross between a margherita pizza and a buffalo mozzarella salad -- with a little romaine thrown in for summer crunch.
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Spinach Manicotti
So simple, so easy, so delicious!
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Sausage, Asparagus and Mushroom Risotto
Our readers love risotto in the microwave so much we decided to do another one!
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Basic Meatballs
There’s nothing ordinary about homemade meatballs, and they’re the ultimate comfort food. They’re much cheaper to make yourself as well -- $1.56 per pound as opposed to $3.50 per pound frozen in bags from the store.
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Truly Vegetarian Minestrone
For a vegetarian, even vegetable soups aren’t always safe. Minestrone doesn’t usually have any actual meat but is classically made with beef and chicken broth. Our solution provides a delicious alternative.
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Two-Cheese Polenta
This Italian side dish is delicious with our Garlic Roasted Salmon or all on its own!
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Garlic Roasted Salmon with Two-Cheese Polenta
This salmon is delicious with either farm-raised or wild-caught fish.
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Spinach Lasagna
We’re always thankful for a fail-safe recipe to serve our vegetarian friends, and this one is at the top of our list. Who would think lasagna could be ready for the oven in less than half an hour? And what a lasagna it is.
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Fire Roasted Tomatoes and Chicken over Ziti
Fire Roasted Tomatoes and Chicken over Ziti uses canned tomatoes, and if you don’t happen to find fire roasted ones, regular diced works great, too.
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My Best-Ever Salvation Spaghetti
This is almost too simple to qualify as a recipe, but everyone I've ever served it to loves it.
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Risotto with Ham and Asparagus
What has has people talking -- in a tone of sheer reverence -- is the fact that risotto cooked in a microwave turns out exactly like the dish you expect in restaurants. And it’s foolproof.
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Crock Pot Risotto with Gourmet Mushrooms
Traditional risotto requires stirring for half an hour. Now all you have to do is cook some onions, give the rice a quick sauté, dump everything into the Crock Pot and leave the room.
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Simple Balsamic Reduction
This is a great glaze for cabbage, but it would sing over steamed carrots or any other root vegetable.
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Rotini with Meatballs, Zucchini and Artichokes
Pull it together from pantry and freezer staples on the spur of the moment and no one will know you didn't plan for days.
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Slow-Cooker Spaghetti and Meatballs
When it's impossible for everyone to sit down together for dinner, how do you cook only once? Our answer is often a slow cooker. But pasta? Here's how.
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