baked pasta – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen Making Every Day an Occasion... Simply Sat, 28 Dec 2019 18:11:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-peonies-32x32.jpg baked pasta – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen 32 32 Baked Pasta with Spinach, Lemon, and Cheese http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/baked-pasta-with-spinach-lemon-and-cheese/ http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/baked-pasta-with-spinach-lemon-and-cheese/#comments Thu, 09 Mar 2017 01:42:07 +0000 http://www.ingoodtastemag.com/?p=6557 Last week, Brad and I ditched the frigid cold and hearty baked pasta dishes of Chicago (well, it hasn’t actually been that cold but for storytelling purposes, the winter has been long and arduous) and traded it for a week in Arizona for warm weather and delicious fish tacos alongside prickly pair margaritas. We had some really wonderful meals (there will be more on that later), but one thing they all had in common was fresh, local ingredients. Because Arizona isn’t a dark, gray, cloudy cave of depression from January until usually sometime in mid-May, they actually produce all kinds of good stuff there, from beef to citrus to olive oil. One of the best dishes we had was the first night we arrived, a simple plate of prosciutto topped with blood orange and grapefruit segments and a dusting of what I think was fried thyme. So simple and so good. I am really looking forward to spring when there is an abundance of fresh produce from the farms in Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana. We live right around the corner from the farmer’s market in Wicker Park and even though Brad and I affectionately refer to Sundays as “fat kid day” […]

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]]> http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/baked-pasta-with-spinach-lemon-and-cheese/feed/ 1 Baked Shells and Cheese http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/shells-and-cheese/ http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/shells-and-cheese/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:00:51 +0000 http://ingoodtasteblog.net/?p=3849 Truth: I have more cookbooks than I know what to do with. This is both good and bad. When moving? Bad. When looking for a mindless baked shells and cheese recipe? Very good. I used to have two ladder-style shelves, each constructed from two separate pieces that fit neatly together to form a loose hinge so the shelves appear that they’re leaning on the wall. One sits in my living room, positioned neatly in a corner next to a window, filled with novels, picture frames, a fake plant that most people think is real and dead. The other shelf used to live on the other side of the room, closer to where my kitchen and eating area are. That piece was for cookbooks. I don’t know if it was the weight of the cookbooks on the shelf or if I had simply done a hasty job of assembling said shelf, but the latter unit always looked as if it were about to keel over. Friends would come over and point out to me that my shelf looked as though it were about to come crashing to the ground under its own weight, but I would just laugh it off and insist […]

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]]> http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/shells-and-cheese/feed/ 27 Baked Rigatoni with Kale http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/baked-rigatoni-with-kale/ http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/baked-rigatoni-with-kale/#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:00:00 +0000 http://ingoodtasteblog.net/?p=107 When I saw a recipe for baked rigatoni with kale on The Kitchen Sink Recipes, I was instantly smitten. It was love at first sight. The fact that the fancy words “rigatoni” and “kale” appear in this recipe didn’t trick me into thinking that it isn’t glorified macaroni and cheese. It has everything that the most delicious macaroni and cheeses have: a velvet cheddar-and-goat cheese cream sauce that begins as a roux, fat, tube-shaped pasta cooked to perfection and even a green vegetable for guilt appeasement. I healthy-fied this one a little bit, substituting whole wheat pasta for white, punching up the amount of kale by a cup or two and using reduced-fat cheeses and 2% milk for the sauce. Definitely a winner for a casual dinner party or one of those “cook on Sunday eat for three days” meals. Save Print Baked Rigatoni with Kale Author: Adapted from Kitchen Sink Recipes Recipe type: Cooking for a Crowd, Weekend Cooking, Worknight Dinners Prep time:  15 mins Cook time:  30 mins Total time:  45 mins Serves: 6   Ingredients 1 pound tube-shaped pasta, like rigatoni 2 bunches (or about 1 pound) kale (or other hearty, leafy green, such as Swiss chard), thick stems removed […]

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