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Pesto and Ricotta Stuffed Shells with Ground Turkey

These pesto and ricotta stuffed shells with ground turkey make a delicious family dinner. Make one for you and deliver one to a local family.
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Roasted Tomato Pesto Recipe You Can Freeze

This delicious roasted tomato pesto recipe is perfect for using on everything from pasta, to soup, flatbreads, and pizza. Plus, you can freeze some for later too.
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Easy Tuna Pasta Bake in Individual Mini Bakers

 

I absolutely love baking in individual dishes, whether it's dessert or a main meal, food always look so neat and pretty in small baking dishes, plus you can refrigerate leftovers and leave them in the same baking dish to reheat.

 



Easy Tuna Pasta Bake Recipe

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Homemade Spaghetti Sauce You Can Freeze

If you've been growing tomatoes and have no idea what to do with them all, start with this homemade spaghetti sauce you can freeze.
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Penne Pasta with a Ground Turkey Meat Sauce

This penne pasta recipe with a quick ground turkey and tomato sauce is perfect for a weeknight meal when you have little time to cook.
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Homemade Cauliflower Alfredo Sauce with Fettucine

Homemade cauliflower alfredo sauce is delicious served with fettucine, and is the perfect way to sneak in a little veggies for the kids.
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Orzo Salad with Corn, Zucchini, and Spinach

This orzo salad with corn, zucchini, and spinach is the perfect accompaniment for backyard barbecues and potlucks, or enjoy it as a meal.
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Happy World Pasta Day

In honor of such a great day I give you

Barilla Lemon Spaghetti

Lemon spaghetti

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Turkey and Sun-Dried Tomato Lasagna

This was delicious.  Really, it was.  I made two large batches, serving one lot for dinner, then slicing the remainder ...
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Recipe: Pasta and Vegetable Soup

Disclosure: This post has been compensated in connection with my appointment as an ambassador in the Ragú® Mom’s the Word on Dinner Program.  Visit http://www.facebook.com/ragusauce to join the conversation.

I am often looking for ways to get my kids to try different foods.  If you were to ask the little ones on any given night what they want for dinner, the answer is sure to be pasta ... or cheese sandwiches, but most likely, pasta.

So when Miss M saw me in the kitchen tonight cooking dinner, the conversation went a little like this:

M:  "What are you making us for dinner?"

Me: "Soup"

M:  "But I don't like soup"

Me:  "You like pasta, sausages and pasta sauce though right?"

M:  "Yummy, but I don't like soup".

Me:  "You'll like this one".

She didn't quite believe me and stomped outside to report to her brother that I was making soup for dinner.   Who proceeded to announce his dislike for this to the neighborhood by screaming "Yuck".   Score 1, ME!  Neighborhood parents, looks like you'll just have to continue feeding your own kids because they won't want to come here now.

So when the soup was ready, here's what I do to keep the little ones happy.  I ladle out the pasta, sausages and just a little of the soup into bowls for the twins - in the small amount of liquid that I put in their bowl (not pictured below, that is my bowl) there is sure to be a little of the veggies.  And shh, don't tell them but I may hide a little spinach or tomato under a piece of pasta or sausage.  Then I top it with parmesan.  This way I only have to cook one meal, but everyone is happy.

So my thoughts on making this soup is I wanted to include as many of the ingredients as possible that I would normally use to make a pasta dish, but give it a new twist, make it a little fun, and have the kids try something new.

Pasta and Vegetable Soup

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