Lemon Garlic Spaghetti

I just made this recipe for dinner tonight. It was DELICIOUS. I found this recipe on Pinterest linked to inomthings.com and it would be delicious either warm or cold. This recipe is for two servings. I, of course had to triple it for my family.

Serves 2

Ingredients:
4oz dry spaghetti (I used whole wheat linguine...same diff)
1/4 c grated Parmesan (the can stuff)
2tsp olive oil
1/2 lemon
2tbsp pine nuts (I didn't have these on hand. It was still delicious, but I'm curious how the nuts would be)
5-6 basil leaves, chopped
1 clove garlic


Heat olive oil in a pan and add chopped garlic. Cook on low until garlic starts to brown on the edges. Immediately remove pan from heat and set aside.


Boil pasta and drain.

In a large bowl, combine basil, pine nuts, juice from lemon, and Parmesan cheese. Add garlic bits w/ oil to mixture. Mix and toss w/ pasta. sprinkle w/ black pepper to taste.

(image from inomthings.com)

ENJOY!! :)

Good Grub

By popular demand, the recipe for our favorite Italian Sausage stew. Found it on Pinterest and added some of my own ingredients. Hope you like it as much as we do :)

(image via Pinterest)

Italian Sausage Stew----serves 8

2lbs Italian sausage links-casings removed
6c water
8 medium potatoes cut into bite size pieces
4 med carrots sliced
4 celery stalks chopped
1 medium onion chopped
1 can tomato paste
1 can of stewed tomatoes (I like Italian blend and sometimes chopped fresh tomatoes if I have them)
2tbsp Worcestershire
1tsp dried basil
1tsp oregano
5 beef bullion cubes
salt/pepper to taste

In large stock pot or dutch oven, heat about 1tbsp olive oil
Cut sausage into about 1in pieces (casings removed) and add to oil
Cook until brown
Add water and all remaining ingredients to pot and simmer over medium heat for about 45mins or until veggies are tender.

Extra tasty with a buttered onion bagel for dippin :)

Florence

After baseball practice we headed out to Casa Grande, dropped off Tony and Andrew with their mom, and headed over to Florence to check out a winery out there as a possible wedding location. My mom's side of the family has a long history in Florence. We visited our family plot at the cemetary and visitied Nana's old house which is now a historical landmark! Posting this to share with family.


  

Maxton walking down the sidewalk lots of us learned to walk on.

Revamping the courthouse

View into the old living room

Nana's kitchen



Very cool



My sweet mom