Slow Cooker Beef Ragu with Pappardelle
This slow cooker beef ragu with pappardelle is the ultimate Sunday comfort food. Braised beef, red wine, tomatoes and fresh pappardelle — set it and forget it for 8 hours. Absolutely incredible.
Three Cheese Manicotti
My wife Dana is from NYC, and we love fresh pasta from there. When our stash ran dry, I surprised her with homemade three cheese manicotti. It was fantastic — even Dana said it was the best she’d ever eaten!
Fresh Pasta
Dana and I were organizing our cabinets the other day and we found our pasta attachment for our kitchen aid mixer. Looking at it, we knew what our next recipe was going to be. We are making fresh pasta. This recipe is an all-purpose flour based pasta. I would have loved to make a semolina flour…
- Fourth of July | Pasta | Rex's BBQ | Sides
Super Creamy Macaroni and Cheese
Nothing goes with barbecue like a good ole Macaroni and Cheese. I have been trying forever to come up with a super creamy macaroni and cheese that I could serve with my barbecue. I think that I have finally found the perfect recipe. This recipe is simple, delicious and extremely creamy. It is basically the…
Goulash – The remainder meal!
Sometimes we have a remainder meal. What is that you ask? Well it is a meal using the remaining ingredients of all of the other cooks. Throw the ingredients in a pot and serve. Goulash is my perfect remainder meal. For this meal we had a bunch of remainders lying around. We had 1/4 box…
Easy Homemade Noodles and Co. Wisconsin Mac and Cheese Recipe
I love Noodles and Company. Their Wisconsin Mac and Cheese is my go-to — creamy Monterey Jack sauce on the bottom, macaroni on top, shredded cheddar to finish. You mix it all together at the table. After a few attempts I nailed it at home and honestly it might be better than the original.
Asparagus Fettuccine Alfredo
Fettuccine Alfredo is one of those dishes that sounds complicated and time consuming. There is nothing farther from the truth. Basic Fettuccine Alfredo has 7 ingredients and takes roughly the time to boil the Fettuccine to make. I spiced this recipe up by adding one ingredient to the basic recipe. Daring isn’t it. However, Asparagus…
Dumpling Noodles
Every once in a while I will go out to eat and there will be an amazing soup with delicious dumpling-like noodles in it. I have always wondered how or where they get their noodles. Then I started to mess around with dumpling recipes to see if I could turn them into noodles. I was…
Baked Ziti Pot Pies
A couple of weeks ago Chris over at NibbleMeThis made Spaghetti and Meatball Pot Pies. They were ingenious! If you have never been to his blog, I would definitely check it out. He is a master with a grill. His Pot Pies have stuck in my mind for a while now and I decided to make my…
Baked Ziti
Dana’s favorite meal is baked ziti. This creamy, cheesy pasta casserole with marinara, ricotta, and mozzarella is pure comfort food. So easy, so good.
One Pot Mac and Cheese – Super Creamy
I love the blue box stuff, but sometimes you just want to make it from scratch. Well I have tried over and over again, and it always seems to fail. My mac and cheese is never as creamy. So I looked for a little wisdom from Alton Brown and figured I would give it a…
Grilled Chicken over Cellantani Pesto
My CSA comes with unlimited basil each week. Therefore, I have been making a ton of pesto. I love the fresh taste of pesto. After a few tries, I found that the best pasta for pesto is Cellantani. It is a spiral macaroni pasta with rigati grooves in the outside. The spiral along with the…
Chicken-N-Noodles over Mashed Potatoes
Starch Starch Starch, I love Starch. This is the greatest meal I have ever had. It is based on one that I had a Bob Evans Restaurant. It is basically a Biscuit, topped with mashed potatoes, topped with chicken noodle soup. Amazing!! This was one meal that I was extremely happy that I had leftovers…
Homemade Dumpling Noodles
The weather here in DC has been like a rollercoaster. Everywhere from the mid 90s to the low 40s all in the span of a week. Needless to say, everybody is suffering from a little cold. So, I decided to make homemade chicken noodle soup, however I wanted to make noodles from scratch. I am…
Baked Manicotti
I was looking for a meat free dish the other day and Dana suggested manicotti. I have had this stuffed shell dish, but have never attempted to make it. So here is my attempt and ultimate success. They were delicious. The cheese and spinach stuffing was the best. Served with a basic marinara these manicotti…
Veal Pasta
This months issue of Food and Wine has a some great pasta recipes in it. One that sparked my interest was Orecchiette with Veal Capers and White Wine. Orecchiette is the pasta that looks like little ears. Unfortunately no store around me has this type of pasta. Further, I am not the biggest fan of…
Mushroom and Spinach Ravioli
After a long weekend of being in Airports I wanted a nice and hearty meal. So I searched around and came across a nice and easy Ravioli recipe from Giada. The recipe does not require you to make pasta and it includes some of my favorite ingredients such as; mushroom, spinach and marscarpone cheese. Top…
Mushroom Stroganoff
I hate to say it, but I am a huge fan of Noodles & Company. My favorite dish is the Mushroom Stroganoff. So today I wanted to try to recreate it. So I went to the store and picked up 2 lbs of mushrooms. Luckily I had a huge pan as I totally underestimated how…
Macaroni Salad
When I was a kid my parents would take me to Pizza Hut for the pizza and salad bar buffet. It was the best time as it was all you can eat breadsticks and pizza. Before diving knee deep into the pizza I always went to the salad bar for a quick healthy snack. That…
Time to cool down, Spaghetti Salad
It was a warm one the other day and I wanted something light and refreshing for dinner. So I called up my Mom and asked her for her spaghetti salad recipe. As a kid my Mom would make this for us in the summer. It is great as a side or alone served with some…
