• Food,  Pasta,  Vegetables

    Broccoli Pasta

    I have been in the mood for pasta lately. Do you ever get in moods like that? Sometimes I go through these phases where all I want is pasta. Honestly, there are SO many different meals you can make with pasta! It is so versatile! You can make it vegetarian or with meat, cold or hot, and there are so many different varieties! So, this dish below was just a dish that I came up with from the ingredients I have in my refrigerator. It was simple and easy and always the best part, pretty healthy as well! Ingredients for Broccoli Pasta: Angel Hair pasta 1 Broccoli head 1 Zucchini…

  • Food,  Pasta,  Vegetables

    Zucchini & Squash Pasta (aka I have WAY too many veggies right now from the garden…so what can I come up with? haha)

    CLEARLY! You can see that I have an excessive amount of vegetables that I need to use. Apart from my making zucchini bread every other day I wanted to come up with something to use all these goodies. Let’s put our thinking caps on here….. Ingredients: 1 Zucchini 1 yellow squash (seeded) 3 small tomatoes (any kind you like – I used plum) 1/2 of a green bell pepper 1 tablespoon fresh garlic 1 tablespoon butter 3-4 fresh basil leaves 1/2 teaspoon dried mint 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme 1/2 tablespoon red pepper flake salt to taste pepper to taste 8-10 oz Penne pasta handful of shredded Parmesan for garnish Started…