20 Minute Healthy Pasta Lunch!

I love making breakfast. Dinners are a breeze. However, lunch? Mmmm… Not so much. So, we look for easy lunches that don’t cause stress and won’t make a mess.

Oat pizza crust.

So we’ve talked about how much my family loves pizza and I mean really? Who doesn’t?

Chicken & Vegetable bake

As I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, I love when food is treated simply and respectfully. Start with the freshest ingredients you can find and let them speak for themselves. No crazy gadgets or exotic spice blends today please. We’re going to let this food shine.

Pallet Cucumber Trellis

There are always at least five ideas swimming around in my head at once. Thankfully most of the time my counter-part can decipher my crazed ramblings. Last year we tried to grow cucumbers. It was a pretty big flop. By full blown summer they had ripped down the twine trellis that we’d constructed. They ended up a giant tangled sick mess of a plant, that I was afraid to go near. I was convinced unfriendly snakes were living there. So when Spring started poking it’s head out I was all consumed with a way to get the cucumber plants off the ground.

Pad Thai

 

There is much debate into the origins of this classic Asian noodle dish. We won’t be looking to resolve the debacle today. Rather taking an unbiased peak into what makes this dish so pallet pleasing. Also, how you can recreate the splendor of the Orient using ingredients from your local market!

A tale of twin tagliatelle

 

I’ll be honest, I’ve only made fresh pasta 3 times before today. And the first two attempts were, let’s be kind and say in need of work. To make matters worse I’ve never actually eaten fresh pasta prepared by anyone that knows what the hell they’re doing!

However.

Quick Chili

Do you ever walk into a place and are instantly hit with a memory from a smell? For me this smell is onions and garlic hitting a pan. Right before it becomes delicious bone warming—smile inducing chili.

Chili can be just about anything in a thick sauce. Vegetarian chili, white chili and pumpkin chili are some of the

Simple meal for a busy night.

I’m sure you’ve experienced the nights where the entire family is running around like crazy. One kid has a massive report that’s due first thing in the morning. The other has band practice and has to be picked up by 4 pm. Not to mention all the other parent stuff that is always running in the background. Sometimes you just do not have the time to set up flatbread and let it proof for an hour. Sure you could abuse the crock pot for another night in a row, but I’ve got a better suggestion. Pasta and sausage! It’s like spaghetti, but without the overdone(badly most of the time) element to it.

BBQ Flat bread sandwich.

Our family currently lives in the BBQ capital of the south. Downtown there’s more pig smoking at any given time than there are people. It’s a religion. And it’s a tourist trap.

And it’s boring.

A true adventure in from scratch cooking.

Red sauce is certainly a favorite among foodies far and wide. How could it not be? You can virtually do everything with it—from pizza to chicken cacciatore. It dresses up the mundane and compliments the most formal of dishes. You can imagine our excitement when our budding roma tomato plants began to fruit.