This One Pot Italian Chicken with Orzo is so simple and so flavorful!  We make it on a regular basis around here .  Use chicken thighs or breasts, it comes together in a flash for a great busy weeknight meal! I originally posted this several years back – Skillet Italian Chicken,  when my blog was…
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Mediterranean Spaghetti Casserole
Mediterranean Spaghetti – A familiar taste with a twist!  There are two yummy layers of sauce on this spaghetti casserole. A ground beef sauce with a hint of cinnamon and another layer of creamy sauce made with feta cheese and nutmeg.  I’ve been making this Mediterranean Spaghetti  for years.  It originates from Cooking Light…
Lasagna Soup
This easy to make Lasagna Soup has a surprise in the middle! I know, this looks like every other soup I love to make…but this one is different. It’ has a secret….a yummy, gooey secret. Shhhh, come closer, let me whisper in your ear…it’s called YUM! A scoop of yummy, gooey goodness lies underneath…
Slow Cooker Sausage, Mushroom and Orzo Soup
Spring is in the air in Seattle (well as much as Spring can ever be in the air in Seattle), so I thought I’d get soup out of my system until fall! This can be prepared stove top or slow cooker. Slow cooker works a little better because the sausage has time to marry with the…
Skillet Pasta with Italian Sausage
Another Skillet Dish recipe! The working girl (and guy) has gotta love these. One pan, a few common ingredients and dinner is on the table. I adapted this dish from Country Cooks magazine.  A subscription I sometimes love. Not all their recipes works for me, which is a bit bizarre since the entire premise of…
Skillet Italian Chicken with Orzo
I’ve noticed a re surge of the one pan dinner lately. Love the idea! Great for weeknight and a bit healther than the Hamburger Helper I remember as a child…but boy, did I love the Cheeseburger version! I love the idea of everything in one pan and bam, your dinner is done! What I don’t like…
Eula’s Sunday Cheesy Chicken Casserole with Broccoli
 Eula’s Sunday Cheesy Chicken and Broccoli Casserole! A no-fail, easy to make dish with ingredients you likely have right now. I’ll bet most people have a ‘go to’ casserole in their family recipe box…they almost all include a can of cream style soup…. and this one is no different! But every time I…
Homemade Ricotta Cheese
I made this again…I just had to see if it was as good as I remembered, and girlfriend…mmmmmm,mmmmm,mmmmm. I truly don’t think this recipe got the attention it deserved the first time, so I am reposting. Listen to me my fellow foodies, put your ear closer to your computer screen so you can hear what…
Spinach Lasagna Rolls
 Here I go…gettin’ all Italian again! But what is the best thing you can do with homemade Ricotta but make Lasagna? What was a girl to do? I’ve wanted to try these rolls for some time in lieu of a standard pan Lasagna and they didn’t dissapoint. They would be really great to serve at a…
Baked Ziti with Sausage and Bechamel
Cooked ziti pasta  mixed with sausage, marinara sauce and topped with a creamy bechamel. I love me some tomato and cream flavors and this made my heart go zing!   Don’t be intimidated by the bechamel, it’s just a simple white sauce…and if you have never made white sauce before, this is going to improve your cooking…
Gnocchi, Sausage and Spinach Soup
This Gnocchi Sausage Soup will quickly become your fave soup!  We started calling this ‘shut up soup’, because we took one bite and said “Oh shut up!, that is so good!”. I am a soupateer, a soup savant, a master of the broth!….(you could say, I love soup 🙂 and this soup is a 5 spoon…
Eula’s Casserole
I’ll bet most people have a ‘go to’ casserole in their family recipe box…they almost all include a can of cream of ka-ka (cream style soup), and this one is not much different, but every time I make this, I get asked for the recipe! It feeds a crowd and has a fresh flavor that not all creamy…
Marinara Primavera
This is a simple marinara packed with veggies (hence the Primavera)…now why would you make a homemade marinara when there is all that bottled stuff on the grocery store shelf, you ask? Quite simply, flavor, texture and nutrition…it is low in calorie and has half the sodium and who doesn’t need more vegetables in their diet. I…