Angel-Hair Pasta Salad with Mustard Dressing

08. July 2005 Pasta + Noodles + Rice 0
Ingredients: angel-hair pasta Perdue Shortcuts honey-roasted chicken, sliced diagonally 4 small radishes, julienned half an apple, julienned 2 scallion stalks, chopped handful of baby spinach, finely chopped half a cup of olive oil 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar 1 tbsp lemon juice 3 tbsps whole-grain mustard salt, pepper 1. Add pasta in salted boiling water. Remove ...

Tabbouleh

31. May 2005 Pasta + Noodles + Rice 0
I loved reading Diana Abu-Jaber’s The Language of Baklava. Not only did I read about how it was like to grow up with a Jordanian father and an American mother, I also learned how to cook some of her family’s dishes. Ingredients: 1 cup of fine bulgur wheat, soaked in water for about an hour ...

Cold Sesame Noodles

12. January 2005 Pasta + Noodles + Rice 2
A staple of Chinese takeouts, sesame noodles is an easy, protein-rich dish that can be both spicy and sweet. The key is using Skippy’s smooth peanut butter so as not to complicate the recipe and not use any more sugar since peanut butter off the supermarket shelves is already too sweet. I used soba noodles ...

Tortellini with Butter Sage Sauce

24. November 2004 Pasta + Noodles + Rice 0
Ingredients: 1 package of tortellini 5 sage leaves half a stick of butter light cream 1. Add tortellini in salted boiling water. Remove and drain after 10 minutes. Set aside. 2. In a skillet, sauté the sage leaves in butter until fragrant. Add the cooked tortellini in the pan with enough light cream to coat. ...

Pumpkin Ravioli with Maitake

Di Palo’s in New York City sells different kinds of pasta. In the fall, I like to pick up their pumpkin ravioli and buy mushrooms from the farmers’ market to match. Maitake mushrooms, also called hen of the woods mushrooms, are capless and look more like a cluster of wings. They’re very fragrant and can ...