Four Foods on Friday #43-the dreaming of Food Network edition

#1. What do you drink to rehydrate in the heat or after working out?

I know water is the best way to hydrate, but I love fountain Diet Coke over lots of ice when it’s hot!

#2. What do you eat to help boost or create energy?

I find that on mornings when I know [...]

Ronzoni Pasta Review and Giveaway

REVIEW

I LOVE pasta. I could eat it every day! So I was so excited when I got an email asking me to review the new Ronzoni SmartTaste and Ronzoni Healthy Harvest pastas-someone wants to send me free pasta? Yes please! I was especially interested in trying the SmartTaste because of it’s nutritional benefits. A [...]

Better-for-you Mac and Cheese

My whole family loves Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, the kind in the blue box, what Canadians call “Kraft Dinner”. In fact, when Chris and I were living together while I was in college, we pretty much lived on “mac-o-cheese”. We would make a box of it and eat the whole thing right out of the [...]

Herbed Turkey Pasta Salad

When my husband reminded me that our friends and their two kids were coming over for a cookout on Sunday, my first thought was, what the heck am I going to eat? A typical cookout menu for our family is grilled cheeseburgers, corn on the cob, baked beans, and some kind of dessert. None of [...]

Healthy veggie spaghetti sauce-yummy too!

I’ve already mentioned how surprised I was to find that any kind of pasta, even the regular white flour kind, is low on the glycemic index. That’s because it’s made from a coursely-milled flour, as opposed to the heavily milled and bleached kind. Spaghetti is my absolutely favorite food, so I was so relieved that [...]

Spaghetti sauce

I have been trying for YEARS to come up with a recipe for spaghetti sauce that tastes like the kind I get in Italian restaurants. I have looked online, in cookbooks, watched Food Network, and have not found one that has just the right balance of flavors and consistency.

I’m about ready to beg the [...]

Creamy Italian Noodles

This is one of my family’s favorites. I serve it as a side dish with baked chicken and steamed vegetables. The great thing about this recipe is that it is completely customizable. An 8 ounce package of egg noodles serves our family of five with usually a scoop or two left over for me to [...]