Healthy living for busy families
It's not easy trying to balance everything at home during the week AND eat healthy! It's so important to keep eating healthy recipes but often we are rushing in the evenings and just want to get dinner on the table and resort to quick food or take out. Here's a really great Easy Vegetable Pasta Recipe that is not only quick but it's absolutely delicious too. ...
Have you ever tried any kind of pasta besides the usual spaghetti and penne? I studied in Florence, Italy, for a few months when I was in college and I left there with a love of pasta I don't think I could ever give up. When my kids say they want spaghetti sauce I actually cringe, unless I can add things to it. This Gnocchi Recipe with Pomodoro Sauce is hardly "spaghetti sauce" - it's actually pasta with a homemade tomato-based sauce. This is definitely going on my healthy recipes page! ...
It's not always possible but I try to make healthy recipes for my family all the time. Even if they aren't totally "healthy" they are at least all natural. This week I made this yummy spinach, corn and pasta salad with homemade ranch dressing to go with BLT and cheese sandwiches made with nitrate-free turkey bacon. SO yummy! Spinach Corn and Pasta Salad I love a good pasta salad. Not macaroni salad made with mayonnaise like my mom made while I was growing up, but a combination of ...
I lived in Italy for a few months when I was in college and every night my host mother Verita made amazing Italian food of lots of healthy recipes. She cooked a 5-course meal of northern Italian dishes, which means lots of pasta and vegetables and ALWAYS true bruschetta. It was an amazing time, living in Florence and experiencing things like picking up olive oil straight from the vineyard before dinner, eating pizza and gelato every day for lunch, and seeing so many amazing works of art that ...
