Pasta Recipe

Johnny Marzetti Recipe
What is Johnny Marzetti?
Johnny Marzetti is a pasta dish with ground meat in a tomato sauce, served over noodles and covered with cheese. The recipe originated at the Marzetti Restaurant in Columbus, Ohio in the 1920s. The adaptability of the Johnny Marzetti recipe no doubt gave rise to its developing popularity during the Great Depression. By World War II, Johnny Marzetti had spread as far as Texas and the Panama Canal. Baby boomers who grew up in Ohio will recognize Marzetti from their school cafeteria menus. Othe...

Easy Pasta Recipe
Fast and Easy Recipe for Pasta Shells
This is likely to be the easiest pasta recipe ever! My grandmother originally introduced all of us to this fast and easy recipe decades ago. We prepare these pasta shells for every holiday meal and often throughout the year. We have a very large family celebration for Thanksgiving. In addition to the turkey, dressing, ham, potatoes, green beans and corn, we serve pasta. It is a family favorite. I even have one cousin who arrives at the door and before he greets everyone, he asks "are the sh...

Chicken Carbonara Recipe
My Yummy Chicken Carbonara Dinner
Tonight I felt like having something different for dinner, but wasn't up for hitting the grocery store. I had a few ingredients kicking around, so I threw this together. It is my twist on Chicken Carbonara, and who doesn't like bacon, right? It's hearty, yummy, healthy and only took 15 minutes to make! The chicken was from a left over roasted chicken, but even if you had to cook it from scratch you could still make the whole thing in 15-20 minutes. Here's my recipe, enjoy!

Kitchenaid Pasta Recipes
Kitchenaid Recipes for Pasta
I just love pasta. My friends and family joke that I think it's a food group. Well, isn't it? And, of course, fresh pasta is much better than the regular kind. Once you've tried fresh pasta, you may never want to eat the dried kind again. It's not even hard to make. A recipe for plain, fresh pasta only requires four ingredients. My great-grandmother used to make noodles by hand, rolling them out, cutting them, and waiting for them to dry. Lots of hard work, and it took forever. With the Kitc...

Great Dinner; American Spirals, Kielbasa and Asparagus NEW!
A Fast Easy Dinner that your family will love!
Recipes for: American Spirals, Fried Kielbasa, and Asparagus American Spirals. This is a take off of a recipe my mom used to make when I was a kid. She called it American Spaghetti. I chose to use multi colored spiral noodles instead and renamed it 'American Spirals'. The multi colored spiral noodles give the meal a great visual appeal. I will be frying up some Kielbasa to go with it. Kielbasa is polish sausage. You can use any variety of smoked sausage or even ring baloney. They all use th...