Homemade Spaghetti Sauce

Spaghetti is such an easy meal, in so many ways.  It’s very popular, it’s easy to heat up some sauce and to boil some noodles, and of course throwing some garlic bread in the oven.  I honestly don’t remember ever hearing someone say “Eww!” when they heard they were having spaghetti for dinner.  Shoot, theRead More

Mushroom Risotto

I started culinary school last week, and our instructor was talking about a restaurant that he went to in Houston a while back.  When he was looking at the menu and was in the mood for risotto, he asked the waiter about a couple of different flavors.  When the waiter asked him what flavors heRead More

Homemade Lasagna

Over the weekend, my daughter and I took a trip to visit my parents.  My cousins were also visiting with their kids…so we had a total of 6 children between the ages of 1-8 all weekend.  It was…eventful, to say the least.  My favorite part of the weekend was just watching all of the kidsRead More

Chicken and Mushroom Marsala

Chicken marsala is a popular Italian dish, and it’s actually a LOT easier to make than you would think.  My sister-in-law serves her marsala with rotini pasta and mixes the sauce and noodles together in a bowl before serving, and personally I like it that way.  The sauce is evenly distributed with the noodles, chicken andRead More