Pasta Fresca



This is my sons favorite dish, he can smell when I am making it because of the fresca sauce. Noodle Co used to make this pasta, but they stopped :( So I started making it now atleast every other week.

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Ingredients

    • 2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil
    • 2 1/2 cups pre-cooked penne or rotini pasta
    • 1/4 cup cubed roma tomatoes
    • 1 tablespoon diced red onions
    • 2 dashes kosher salt, and
    • cracked pepper
    • 1 ounce baby fresh spinach
    • 1/4 cup fresh garlic
    • 2 teaspoons kosher salt
    • 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
    • 1/4 cup sweet white wine
    • 1 cup extra virgin olive oil

Directions


  1. Prepare fresca sauce: 1/4 cup balsamic vineger, 1/4 cup of white wine, 1/2 cup of olive oil, 2 tsp salt, 4 cloves of garlic (minced)
  2. In a very hot sauté pan, add: extra virgin olive oil, pre-cooked pasta, roma tomatoes, diced red onions, kosher salt & pepper.
  3. Sear noodles, stirring occasionally until steaming hot.
  4. Add: baby fresh spinach and fresca sauce.
  5. Toss to combine, serve with freshly shaved parmesan cheese.


Sugar Cookies


My favorite cookie is the Sugar cookie, its chewy soft and so pretty with the sprinkles.
It is not only my favorite, but my kid's favorite as well, until recently I could not find a good recipe. So I just bought the pillsbury frozen cookies. Well my friend gave me the recipe, and it is everything I have been looking for: soft and chewy.

You won't be disappointed with this one :)

PRINT RECIPE HERE

Ingredients:

2 1/3 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/8 tsp salt
1 CUP of unsalted butter, softened
1 ¼ cups sugar
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla extract 

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 

Mix flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside. 

Beat butter and sugar in a large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually stir in flour mixture until well mixed. 

Drop teaspoonful on a un-greased cookie sheet and sprinkle with sprinkles and bake for 9 minutes.