Category: Italian

Homemade Pizza Sauce

Homemade pizza sauce is easier to make than I thought!  One time, I was out of it with no time to go to the store, so I grabbed some tomato sauce and started experimenting.  I must say that this sauce is so much more flavorful than the sauce you buy in a store. …

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Simple Baked Meatballs

First of all, Happy Birthday, Mom!  I hope you’re having a great day, and we all love you so much 🙂 One of my favorite things to keep on hand in my freezer is a giant bag full of meatballs.  They are so versatile.  You can add them to a spaghetti sauce and…

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Grandma Carol’s Spaghetti Sauce

This is the only ground beef spaghetti sauce recipe I will probably ever make.  In my opinion, it is absolutely the best!  I was raised with it, and my children will be raised with it too.  Family recipes hold a very special place in my heart, and have a big stronghold on my…

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Simple Meat Lasagna

My “go to” recipe when it comes to lasagna is of the spinach variety.  I wanted to try something a little bit different, so I decided to make a meat lasagna.  I think the results were delicious!

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Emeril’s Alfredo Sauce

Creamy and cheesy, alfredo sauce is delicious.  I’ll admit that I’m one to buy a jar at the supermarket rather than embark on the journey of making my own, but that was not the case the other night…

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Stuffed Shells

When I put together the ingredients for this dish to be photographed, I thought, “Surely I’m forgetting something!”  But I wasn’t.  Stuffed Shells is a simple pasta dish that looks and tastes like you spent a lot of time in the kitchen.  It’s also a meal that can be prepared in stages, which…

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Italian Sausage Pasta Sauce

Looking for a meat sauce that’s not ground beef-based? I think you’ll like this one… Italian Sausage Pasta Sauce. It’s chunky and full of flavor.   Perfect with penne or spaghetti.  Just like many of my Italian recipes, this is one which I think tastes as good (if not better!) the next day.

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Spinach Lasagna

I don’t make many lasagnas.  In fact, I think this is the only recipe I’ve ever made.  It began with a recipe which my sister found on the internet, and I have tweaked it to our liking.  I started by making it smaller, as the original recipe made a 13″ x 9″ pan…

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