Andrea Meyers

Baked Penne with Tomatoes and Mozzarella

August 3, 2006 By Andrea Leave a Comment

Baked pasta dishes are really enticing for us. We love how the sauce wraps around all of the pasta and how the cheese melts and gets stringy and a little brown on top. Mmmmm. This is a basic baked pasta dish that requires only a few ingredients. When we first tried it, we felt that [...]

Filed Under: Pasta Tagged With: budget meals, tomatoes, vegetarian

Japanese Salmon with Soba

July 24, 2006 By Andrea 4 Comments

I saw this dish a few years ago on the old Food Network show Calling All Cooks. It looked so good that I made it the next day with a few modifications based on ingredients that I normally keep on hand. We prefer to use Tamari soy sauce, which has a rich flavor that seems [...]

Filed Under: Pasta, Seafood Tagged With: Asian, budget meals, fish, salmon

Basic Basil Pesto

July 10, 2006 By Andrea 2 Comments

At the risk of jinxing things, I have to say that our garden is really doing well this year. We have tons of tomatoes that will be ready for picking next week. The herbs are going crazy. The Italian parsley and the dill are about three feet tall with lots of leaves, the oregano and [...]

Filed Under: Pasta, Recently Updated, Sauces & Marinades Tagged With: basil, gluten-free, herbs, Italian foods, summer, vegan, vegetarian

Cold Sesame Bean Threads

June 1, 2006 By Andrea Leave a Comment

We love noodles cooked just about any way, and I find that that noodle dishes are a great way to get my boys to eat their vegetables. This is a dish that I find particularly refreshing in the summertime. I can walk in the door after a hot morning outdoors with the kids, pull this [...]

Filed Under: Pasta, Salads Tagged With: budget meals, low-fat, vegan

Marinara Sauce

March 26, 2006 By Andrea Leave a Comment

Marinara is a very easy sauce that only requires a few ingredients. You can make a winter version following this recipe, or you can make a summer version using peeled fresh tomatoes and fresh basil in season. It makes a pretty dish when you use the sauce as a bottom layer and put some ravioli [...]

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Pasta Primavera

March 19, 2006 By Andrea 1 Comment

All the prep work on my summer garden has me fixated on vegetable dishes. As I scooped more seeds from bell peppers and eggplant today, my mind drifted towards a pasta primavera for dinner. I love this dish in the summertime with fresh peppers and eggplant. You can adapt the dish based on whatever fresh [...]

Filed Under: Pasta, Vegetables Tagged With: budget meals, Italian foods, low-fat, tomatoes, vegan

Pasta Pomodoro

March 14, 2006 By Andrea 2 Comments

I started my garden planning yesterday. I scooped seeds out of a few beautiful red, yellow, and green bell peppers and a few roma tomatoes and laid those out to dry for starting in a day or two. My three-year-old son helped me seed some flats with herbs and water them. And I’m going to [...]

Filed Under: Pasta Tagged With: budget meals, Italian foods, low-fat, tomatoes, vegetarian

Pasta Thing

March 7, 2006 By Andrea Leave a Comment

The first time my future husband made this dish for me, I asked him what it was called and he said, “It’s just a pasta thing.” The Pasta Thing can be anything you want it to be … the recipe varies based on whatever we happen to have in the pantry. We alternate between an [...]

Filed Under: Pasta Tagged With: budget meals, tomatoes, vegetarian

Michael’s Spaghetti and Meatballs

February 13, 2006 By Andrea 1 Comment

We usually have some kind of pasta for Sunday dinner, and this is my husband’s favorite. He takes over the kitchen and makes the sauce and the meatballs. His philosophy is always to err on the side of more flavor, so he piles on the garlic and onions. He makes his meatballs using a pan [...]

Filed Under: Beef, Pasta Tagged With: budget meals, comfort foods, ground beef, Italian foods

Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto

January 27, 2006 By Andrea Leave a Comment

In the summertime, our garden is filled with the scent of sweet basil. We usually try to devote an entire raised bed just to basil. We use it fresh in dishes such as this pesto throughout the summer and into the fall. When we near the end of season, we cut down all the remaining [...]

Filed Under: Pasta, Sauces & Marinades, Vegetables Tagged With: basil, gluten-free, vegan