I’m always surprised when looking at sauce recipes for spaghetti how simple arrabiata sauce is to make.  I want it to be complex with lots of ingredients and super difficult to make because that’s how it tastes: complex, rich, and extra fancy. But it’s not.   As far as sauce recipes for spaghetti go, this one […]

When creating recipes for stuffed shells, we added fancy ingredients like shellfish.  Then we had recipes for stuffed shells that were full of cheese.  Then I went a little wild and shared a recipe for stuffed shells that was inspired by Mexican stewed meat.  Still, I think it’s critical that we go back near the […]

As a child of the 1980s, I grew up knowing certain things: Megatron had to be stopped no matter the cost.  Zack Morris could not be trusted.  If one were to be gagged, it should be with a spoon.  I was also taught by cartoons that anchovies were evil and should never be eaten.  They […]

My son is older now, so society as a whole may have moved past needed to hide vegetables in other things. Still, in my day, a little bit of trickery was the only way my son got something green down his gullet. Granted, we were lucky that he would eat oregano and basil, just not […]

I’ve spent far too long thinking about recipes with stuffed shells. Still, it was something that people said they wanted and who am I to argue? Still, as I was contemplating stuffed shells, I could help but wonder if there was a way to do dessert recipes with stuffed shells. To be honest, I’ve never […]

Five Ingredient Stuffed Shells Well, when designing recipes for stuffed shells, I kind of went overboard with my Chile Colorado-inspired chicken stuffed shells. For this recipe for stuffed shells, I wanted to do the opposite and see if I could produce a recipe for stuffed shells with as few ingredients as possible. Five seemed like […]