Recipes - Pasta & Grains
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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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Creamy Swiss Chard with Cheese Ravioli
Quick and Easy, here's one dish to help with your Swiss Chard abundance.
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Shrimp Pasta Salad with Tomatoes and Capers
Makes a lovely addition to a lunch buffet or summer brunch with its bright lemony flavor. It’s easy, and it’s beautiful.
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Guatemalan-Style Rice
This rice pilaf is inspired by a Guatemalan recipe that Alicia’s girls ate daily when they visited Antigua, Guatemala, several years ago.
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Magical Strawberry Muffins
Easy and eggless, these muffins are sure to become a family favorite for you, too.
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Stuffed Olive Bread
Just as with pizza, the possibilities are endless with stuffed breads.
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Spinach Manicotti
So simple, so easy, so delicious!
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Stuffed Cheese Bread
Refrigerated dough is the secret to making this rich and yummy appetizer bread fast, too!
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So-Sweet Sopapilla Chips
Awesome enough to eat straight from the oven, but drizzled with a little warm honey or chocolate, they are simply heavenly.
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Nutty Muesli
Muesli is wonderful served cold, topped with milk, or soaked overnight in yogurt or milk as the Europeans usually do. It’s similar to oatmeal but decidedly different, with whole grains, nuts and fruit as essential components.
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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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Pasta with Asparagus
This recipe from Jo Ann Farrell of Keswick, Va., pairs asparagus spears with penne, red pepper and Parmesan.
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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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Mollie Katzen’s Vegetable and Walnut Pizza
A good homemade pizza recipe is invaluable, and we’d go so far as to call Mollie Katzen’s Vegetable and Walnut Pizza truly great.
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“Butterless” Oatmeal, Raisin and Pecan Cookies
At only 79 calories per cookie and less than 2 grams of fat, it’s a perfect, guiltless cookie! Our thanks go to Karen Singer of San Diego for the recipe's inspiration.
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Pumpkin Pear Muffins
These delicious muffins combine the best flavors of fall for holidays or anytime you want a special treat.
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Pumpkin Granola Pancakes with Mountain Apple Compote
Served with our Apple Compote or plain, these pancakes are so festive no one will realize that they’re also good for you.
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Rustic Sweet Biscuits
These biscuits are great with everything from a savory beef stew or a mild vegetable soup. Of course they are delicious alongside just about any country breakfast.
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Turkey Tetrazzini
We've made Turkey Tetrazzini for so many years right after Thanksgiving that it's become as much of a tradition as turkey sandwiches. This is comfort food plain and simple.
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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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Banana Bread Pudding
Banana bread pudding is a delicious combination of traditional bread pudding and another traditional dessert -- hot banana pudding. Serve this hybrid pudding warm with vanilla ice cream and our Rich Caramel Sauce.
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Fragrant Indian Rice Pilaf
This rice pilaf has assertive flavors and is a perfect complement to most any grilled or roasted meat.
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Garlic Parmesan Pita Chips
Homemade pita chips are an easy and economical treat. The results are simply fantastic. Use them to scoop hummus or even to take the place of crackers.
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Pre-Race Chicken-Veggie Pasta
If you have tri-athletes you know the lingo. But even if the only “tri” you do is shopping, cooking and cleaning, this is a winning combination of chicken (lean protein), fresh vegetables (vitamins and nutrients) and pasta (crucial carbs).
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Chicken Stew the Easy Way
Here's a modern version of a kid-friendly classic -- Chicken Stew or Chicken and Noodle Soup -- whichever name makes you hungrier. This recipe combines the best of both.
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Margie’s Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
When a Kitchen Scoop reader told us she remodeled her entire kitchen around one cookie recipe, we knew we had to try them. Here they are, and are they terrific!
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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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Banana Pecan Mini Loaves
The genius in Banana Pecan Mini Loaves is four loaves (three for gifts and one to keep) with just 20 minutes of mixing. Fresh banana bread from your own oven? A great gift!
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Wild West Wagon Train Supper
When feeding kids, sometimes all it takes is a different pasta shape and a really fun name. Next, spice things up without over-doing it. Most like Mexican so long as it’s not too hot.
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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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Topsail White Shrimp Spaghetti
One of our favorite recipes from our first cookbook is Topsail Shrimp Spaghetti. It has a red sauce and we wondered what would happen if we used an Alfredo sauce and fresh tomatoes.
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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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Thai Spaghetti Toss
We wouldn’t dare call this recipe “Pad Thai”. To make that you’d need pickled radishes, dried shrimp, and rice noodles. But here's our substitute for one of our world-class favorites.
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Tabbouleh is Easy!
Also spelled tabouli, this ultra-healthy Middle Eastern treat is inexpensive too.
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Basic Bulgur
Very-good-for-you bulgur is way easy to cook ahead and refrigerate to use in Tabbouleh and other recipes.
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Jumpin’ Jambalaya
A robust jambalaya practically jumps off the table. Serve with deli coleslaw and purchased corn muffins for a quick feast.
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Granola for Fanatics
Compared to homemade, store-bought may as well be sawdust. And nothing makes Cheerios happier in the morning than a sprinkle of this ...
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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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Moroccan Meatballs over Couscous
We keep coming back to this recipe -- the exotic spice blend makes it one of our favorites. Cilantro and parsley are essential to the fresh taste and make a beautiful garnish, too.
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Beef and Broccoli Lo Mein
With lo mein this quick and this great, you can kiss Chinese takeout goodbye.
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Chocolate Bread Pudding
A friend once said our Chocolate Bread Pudding is "about as close to heaven as you can get while you're still alive." Very well said -- and perhaps even true. You decide!
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Christmas Eggnog French Toast
Christmas morning calls for a memorable breakfast – but nobody wants to miss out on the fun around the tree. Our French toast puts the eggnog to work adding that special holiday twist.
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