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Simple 10 Minute Tomato Sauce!

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Linguine with simple tomato sauce close up on a fork

How about trying out a Simple 10 Minute Tomato Sauce? YES PLEASE!

Uses for 10 Minute Tomato Sauce!

10 minutes (and a few good quality ingredients!) is all you need to create this delectable Tomato Sauce! Here I feature the sauce as mixed with pasta, but it is so useful in the kitchen! Here are some ideas to put this Simple 10 Minute Tomato Sauce to use:

  • Serve with eggs (think Shakshuka!!
  • Cream of tomato soup!
  • Pizza sauce!
  • Topping for chicken parmesan!
  • Dip for breadsticks!
  • Use in any other recipe calling for tomato sauce!

So there are just a few ideas, but let’s start with pasta and enjoy a delicious and easy Pasta With Simple 10 Minute Tomato Sauce, as you see above!!

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Quick and Easy Spaghetti Aglio Olio e Peperoncino

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Spaghetti Aglio e Olio

What is Spaghetti Aglio Olio e Peperoncino?

Spaghetti Aglio Olio e Peperoncino simply means Spaghetti with garlic (aglio), oil (olio), and chili peppers (peperoncino). This is a classic dish from Italy, and super delicious and easy to make!

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Easy And Perfect Spicy Pasta Puttanesca

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Spicy Pasta Puttanesca

I loooove pasta. Hopefully you love pasta too. 🙂 I’m not averse to using ready made pasta sauces. In fact, I use them quite often. However, when you have an easy recipe at your disposal to help you create a dish worthy of a fine Italian restaurant, then there’s no reason not to make your own sauce! I’m stepping out boldly to say, that this is one of those recipes. 🙂

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Pantry Mushroom Risotto

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Mushroom risotto

The Pantry Challenge

I had heard about The Pantry Challenge a few months ago from a friend on Instagram. The Pantry Challenge is a time where you focus on using up what you have before buying any more food. The benefits are you will save time by not having to go out shopping, save money by not overbuying food, and be a better steward of the resources that you have! Every one of those benefits are definitely worth it!

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Linguine With Pink Shrimp Sauce

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Linguine With Pink Shrimp Sauce

I Found The BEST Shrimp Pasta Recipe!

Linguine with shrimp is seriously one of the most delicious seafood pasta dishes. Fortunately I found the BEST shrimp pasta recipe. Honestly I don’t have the words to adequately describe how delicious this dish is. I initially found this recipe in a newspaper clipping a few years ago and have held onto it.

For me, this dinner is a HUGE treat. It’s luxurious, it’s scrumptious, it’s incredible. Got the idea? 🙂

The recipe comes from chef Giuliano Hazan’s “Giuliano Hazan’s Thirty Minute Pasta: 100 Quick and Easy Recipes” cookbook, which tells you that you can create this pretty quickly. It is everything you could want in a shrimp pasta dish! Every mouthful is full of shrimpy, garlicky, and creamy delight!

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Pasta!!!! 1,000 Foods to Eat Project Food #24

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I am on a quest to experience and enjoy the 1,000 Foods to Eat in the book 1,000 Foods to Eat Before You Die by Mimi Sheraton. She says that the foods she lists in her book are the tastes that every food lover should experience or dream about.

Some of the foods are easy, and some of the food are hard. So.. this one is particularly easy…who hasn’t tried pasta?!?!?! My second question is who doesn’t love pasta?!?!? Pasta is food #24 on my quest to try each and every one of the foods listed in this awesome book.

What is Pasta?

Dictionary.com defines pasta as: “any of various flour-and-egg food preparations of Italian origin, made of thin, unleavened dough and produced in a variety of forms, usually served with a sauce and sometimes stuffed.”

Pasta has two broad categories that it is divided into: fresh and dried. The shapes and varieties of pasta seem to be endless…but actually in my research I found there are approximately 350 different types of pasta, and many many more names for them! For example, what one person calls farfalle, another may call bowtie.

The history of pasta goes back centuries, and although I am not sure how true the legend of Marco Polo bringing the first pasta over from China is, I love the story.

Incredibly Versatile – There is a Pasta for Everyone!

With 350 types of pasta, and seemingly endless varieties of sauces and ingredients, there is definitely a pasta dish for everyone!

Although I do like tomato sauce based pasta dishes, my tasted tend to lean toward pasta dishes that are not tomato based.

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I'm on a journey to try the 1,000 foods listed in the book 1,000 Foods to Eat Before You Die. Some of the foods are easy and familiar, and some of the foods are somewhat difficult. So my #24 food is particularly easy…pasta, which is one of my favorites! Luckily, I have four great pasta recipes which I'd love to share, and are some of my go to recipes when I want a quick, easy, and delicious 5 star pasta meal (which is almost every night). 🙂 Linguine Alle Vongole Linguine With Pancetta and Peas Linguine With Delicious Parsley Pesto Puglian Orecchiette With Broccoli I guess you can tell I love linguine. 🙂 If you love pasta, please try one of these recipes…I think you'll love them. 🙂 Find the recipes at the site in my bio…which is http://www.explorecookeat.com. Cheers everyone! Grace #pasta #ilovepasta #1000foodstoeatbeforeyoudie #onmyplate #dinnertonight #pastamania #sabestfoodpics #pastalovers #pastalove #pastaporn #carbdinner #instapasta #pastaaddict #budgetmeals #pastapasta

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I have a few go to pasta dish recipes that I’d love to share, and they are:

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Pizza – Margherita Pizza – (1,000 Foods to Eat Project)

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Margherita Pizza

Pizza! Who doesn’t love pizza?!? Pizza is one of the most beloved foods in the world. It is also one of the 1,000 foods to eat listed in the book 1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die, by Mimi Sheraton.

The pizza recipe I would like to share with you is for Pizza Margherita.

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Linguine With Pancetta and Peas

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Linguine with pancetta and peas

I love pasta dishes. They are usually quick and easy to prepare, budget friendly, and super satisfyingly delicious. Linguine with Pancetta and Peas checks all of those boxes.

This pasta dish is super savory due to the addition of the pancetta. Pancetta is Italian pork belly which has been salt cured, and it is so very very good!

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Linguine with Delicious Parsley Pesto

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Linguine With Parsley Pesto

If you haven’t ever made your own pesto, trust me…you should. It is so very easy and the taste is out of this world!

What Is Pesto?

Pesto is traditionally a mixture of crushed basil leaves, olive oil, salt, garlic, pine nuts, and parmesan. It originated in Genoa, Italy and is typically served with pasta. Today, there are many variations on pesto.

I had only ever made pesto with basil before. However, the other evening I found a bunch of Italian parsley in the fridge, and spied some leftover pine nuts in the pantry. The decision was made to give parsley pesto a go, and I’m so happy that I did!

Pine nuts, parmesan, olive oil, garlic and chilis
Parsley Pesto

I looove things spicy! This parsley pesto includes some chilis, which give it a great kick! However if you aren’t too fond of spicy foods, leave the chilis out and it’ll still be absolutely delicious.

Parsley Pesto

You can use pesto in so many ways: as a dip, as an accompaniment to meat, as a spread for crackers, and whatever else you can come up with! I decided to mix this pesto in with some linguine, and that night there were NO leftovers. 🙂

parsley pesto dip with crackers
Parsley Pesto makes a great dip as well!

You can also substitute other types of pasta for the linguine! I also made this pesto with penne. Whatever pasta you choose, it’s guaranteed to please!

Penne with parsley pesto
Penne With Parsley Pesto

I hope you will enjoy this budget friendly, easy to prepare, and absolutely delicious Linguine with Delicious Parsley Pesto soon.

Linguine with parsley pesto
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Linguine with parsley pesto

Linguine with Delicious Parsley Pesto

Grace
Enjoy this budget friendly, easy to prepare, and absolutely delicious Linguine with Delicious Parsley Pesto with a generous amount of parmesan and side salad.  
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Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 9 mins
Total Time 19 mins
Course Pasta
Cuisine Italian
Servings 3 servings

Ingredients
  

  • large handful Italian parsley
  • 5 cloves garlic minced
  • 2 Thai chili leaves chilis out for a mild version
  • 1/3 cup pine nuts
  • 1/3 cup parmesan grated
  • 1/3 cup olive oil
  • 1/2 ts salt
  • 1/2 ts pepper
  • 12 oz linguine I used Skinner’s

Instructions
 

  • Add the Italian parsley, garlic, and Thai chilis to a food processor and pulse/process a few times.  Add the pine nuts, parmesan, olive oil, 1/2 ts salt and 1/2 ts pepper to the food processor, and process until all ingredients combined and items finely minced. 
    Parsley Pesto
  • In the meantime, cook your pasta according to the package directions.  Reserve 1/4 cup of the pasta water. 
  • Once the pasta is cooked, drain, and then add the parsley pesto.  If the pasta is too dry for your liking, add a small amount of the reserved pasta water and stir until the pasta is loosened up a bit for your taste.  This is not necessary unless you find the pasta too dry.
  • Taste, and add salt and pepper if necessary.

Notes

For a mild version, leave out the chilis or add fewer as these chilis can be quite spicy!  The pesto can be used as an accompaniment to meat, and as a dip or a spread as well.