Skillet Rigatoni with Sausage Beans and Spinach

Rigatoni with Sausage, Beans, and Spinach is an easy meal for any day of the week. Al dente rigatoni pasta is combined with zesty Italian sausage, Cannellini beans, spinach, onions, garlic and mushrooms in a light sauce then finished with shredded Parmesan cheese. It's perfect for those days when you are looking for a quick and easy light pasta dish. 

Sweet and Tangy Amish Macaroni Salad Recipe

This delicious recipe for creamy Amish Macaroni Salad is a great side dish recipe for your spring picnics, summer BBQs, and  all your potlucks! Sweet and tangy, with just the right amount of crunch, this Amish Macaroni Salad recipe will become your GO TO macaroni salad recipe!

Easy Johnny Marzetti Casserole (aka American Goulash)

Johnny Marzetti casserole is a combination of noodles, rich tomato sauce, ground beef, cheese, bell pepper and sauteed vegetables. It's said to have originated in a restaurant run by the Marzetti family in Columbus, Ohio. It's an easy casserole recipe perfect for potlucks that everyone will love!

 

Oven Baked Ziti with Sausage

Oven Baked Ziti with Sausage falls into the ultimate comfort food category. What could be more comforting than a serving of ziti pasta covered in a rich and zesty homemade tomato and sausage sauce, layered with creamy ricotta cheese and topped with melty Italian blend cheese?  Serve it up with a garden salad on the side and some crusty bread and you'll be in pasta heaven!

Roasted Vegetable Pasta Salad

Roasted Vegetable Pasta Salad is one of those easy pasta salad recipes with Italian dressing, but gets elevated by adding roasted vegetable. Roasting vegetables brings out their natural sweetness and makes this pasta salad special.  It's the perfect pasta salad for all your summer parties this year!

Creamy Tuna Pasta Salad with Peas

Creamy Tuna Pasta Salad isn't your ordinary pasta salad recipe. It's like tuna salad on steroids! It's a macaroni salad, tuna pasta salad, and a pea salad recipe all rolled up into one. In this delicious cold summer salad, shell pasta is combined with frozen peas, crunchy veggies, canned tuna, and cheddar cheese for an extraordinary side dish or main dish for all your summer parties!

Chicken Bacon Pasta

Chicken Bacon Pasta is your quick and easy weeknight meal solution! This easy pasta recipe for creamy chicken bacon pasta starts with Cavatappi pasta, chicken breast, crisp bacon, and mushrooms. Then, they are all smothered in an easy-to-make creamy wine sauce for a tasty dinner you can have on the table in about 30 minutes or less! Make Chicken Bacon Pasta for your family today!

Smoked Sausage and Pepper Pasta Skillet

The weeknight dinner dilemma is solved with this easy pasta recipe for Smoked Sausage and Pepper Pasta Skillet.. Turkey smoked sausage, onions, bell peppers, tomatoes, pasta and fresh basil make this pasta dinner a winner. Ready for your table in about 30 minutes too! Add a garden salad for a complete meal everyone will love!

Creamy Buffalo "Chicken" Pasta Salad

Looking for something a little different to add to your Labor Day menu this year? Creamy Buffalo "Chicken" Pasta Salad is a great option to serve your family and friends or to take to a holiday potluck! Bow-tie pasta, sweet bell peppers, crisp celery, and MorningStar Farms® Buffalo Wings are coated in a zesty buffalo sauce and ready in no time for a dish that's great as a main or on the side!

Easy Broccoli Pasta Salad

With the "unofficial" start of summer upon us this weekend, I'm thinking about enjoying the outdoors as much as possible!  I'm looking forward to grilling and making delicious salads like this Easy Broccoli Pasta Salad. It's an amazingly creamy broccoli pasta salad you are going to love. It's your favorite broccoli salad with the addition of pasta for a heartier side dish!  

Homemade Roasted Tomato Pasta Sauce

Homemade Roasted Tomato Pasta Sauce is an easy way to save your garden's tomato harvest! Homegrown tomatoes are roasted in the oven with basil, garlic, onion and carrots, then blended into a delicious fresh sauce to use on pasta or freeze for later!

Turkey Minestrone Soup

Turkey Minestrone Soup is a wonderfully flavorful way to repurpose holiday turkey leftovers! A healthy combination of fresh veggies, canned beans, pasta and that leftover turkey you have on hand.

Classic Chicken Tetrazzini Casserole

Chicken Tetrazzini is a classic casserole dish everyone loves!  Budget friendly and the perfect way to enjoy a weeknight meal with your family. Pasta, chicken, mushrooms in a creamy, cheesy sauce topped with buttery bread crumbs.  Comfort food at it's best!

One Pan Chicken Broccoli Alfredo

One Pan Chicken Broccoli Alfredo is a quick weeknight meal option the whole family will enjoy. Tender grilled chicken breast strips, penne pasta, and fresh broccoli are coated in a cheesy white sauce in this effortless meal.

Zesty Sloppy Joe Casserole

Zesty Sloppy Joe Casserole is a quick and easy dinner idea perfect for the cooler weather! It comes together in less than 30 minutes for a meal the whole family will love in a "not so sloppy" presentation with the help of RO*TEL and MANWICH. As far as Manwich recipes go, this one is a keeper!

Spinach, Feta and Bean Pasta Salad

Spinach, Feta and Bean Pasta Salad is a great healthy side dish for all your BBQs this summer!  Light and full of zesty flavor, the perfect accompaniment to just about anything you serve!  

Peppery Pasta with Arugula and Sausage

It's Secret Recipe Club time again!  This month I was assigned to the blog IlonasKitchen.  Ilona says, "When I am stressed I bake and/or go to the gym.  It's a symbiotic relationship!"  I love this philosophy! 

 There were so many good recipes to choose from on her blog! I finally settled in the pasta category of her blog.  I choose several recipes to make on the short list (Creamy Goat Cheese Pasta with Lemon and Spinach and Farfalle with Garlic Parmesan Cream Sauce to name a few!)  , but ultimately, since I LOVE arugula, I choose to make this one.  

Cajun Chicken and Sausage Pasta

My family LOVES Cajun and Creole flavors and we LOVE New Orleans.  Last spring, we took a trip to the Big Easy to escape all the cold and snow of NE Ohio. We missed a major snow storm while we were gone!  What a great time we had!!  If you missed it, you can read about it HERE.

Lightened Up Italian Chicken Sausage Pasta Skillet

This time of year can be so very hectic.  Shopping, Wrapping, Decorating, Baking...the "to do list" seems endless.  Finding a healthy dinner that is ready in no time can be a HUGE challenge.  This Italian Chicken Sausage Pasta Skillet is a quick and easy meal you can have on the table in minutes!

Turkey Tuesdays: Mediterranean Turkey Pasta Salad

I can't believe that today is the last Tuesday in September!! Is it just me, or did that go by in the blink of an eye?

I'm wondering if any of you have been joining me in celebrating "turkey" this month?  If you haven't it's not too late to get on the bandwagon, because this recipe is absolutely delicious.  If you have never had greens and pasta together, you are missing out!