Pasta Recipes

pasta e fagioli
Pasta Recipes, Soups & Stews, Vegetarian Entrees

Pasta e Fagioli

Making a Favorite Family Recipe Pasta e Fagioli is an Italian soup/stew/pasta meal I remember eating with my extended family at reunions at my grandmother’s house. The version of Pasta e Fagioli that she made was very simple. Since then, I’ve revised my recipe. It was influenced by an Italian […]

pasta with marinara sauce
Pasta Recipes, Vegetarian Entrees

Marinara Sauce

This is my go to sauce for pasta. It is a vegetarian, red sauce that I’ve been eating m whole life. Traditionally it would have been made with meatballs or seafood when I was growing up, but today I like the vegetarian version, flavored with garlic and mushrooms. From time […]

Pasta Recipes

Sun Dried Tomato Coconut Pasta

When I was in Italy, I brought home sun dried tomatoes from the Rialto Outdoor Market in Venice.    The flavor of the tomatoes is so incredible! I also had some organic whole wheat pasta I brought back. It was an organic, whole wheat mezzi (half) rigatoni from Delverde.    […]

homemade pasta drying on table
Pasta Recipes

Homemade Pasta

I first made “Homemades” when I was about 13 years old. I didn’t have a pasta machine, so I cut it by hand. When I owned my restaurant, Seychelles Restaurant we made homemade pasta daily, using a large mixer and Italian electric pasta machine. I still make homemade pasta for […]