My favorite thing about summer is the garden. I have a very, very small garden and I grow tomatoes, peppers, garlic and herbs. One of these days I'll have a garden where I can grown corn, beans, cucumbers, squash, potatoes and more, the sky is the limit, but right now I'm happy with my little garden. Tonight I made a meat sauce and I used fresh herbs from the garden, basil, oregano, thyme, Italian parsley and rosemary. This is a really simple dish; first thing, I got my pasta going. Then I chopped 5 cloves garlic, 1/2 red pepper, 1/2 green pepper and 1/2 vidalia onion and sauteed them in 1 tbs of EVOO until they were softened. I took 1lb of Laura's Lean ground beef w/ 4% fat and a and little fresh parmigiana reggiano. I served it over farfalle, but you could use whatever pasta you like. One thing I would like to mention is that tonight while making the dish, I was conscience of not adding additional salt to anything. Not the best idea, because pasta really needs salt and this pasta didn't have any flavor. I recommend adding salt to the pasta water. The sauce was fine with no added salt especially with the cheese. If you want something healthy then I would give this dish a try. Good Eats!Follow along as I explore food & cooking. Let's share recipes, knowledge, ideas, techniques, restaurants and stories. I think it will be fun!
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
Healthy Herbed Meat Sauce and Farfalle
My favorite thing about summer is the garden. I have a very, very small garden and I grow tomatoes, peppers, garlic and herbs. One of these days I'll have a garden where I can grown corn, beans, cucumbers, squash, potatoes and more, the sky is the limit, but right now I'm happy with my little garden. Tonight I made a meat sauce and I used fresh herbs from the garden, basil, oregano, thyme, Italian parsley and rosemary. This is a really simple dish; first thing, I got my pasta going. Then I chopped 5 cloves garlic, 1/2 red pepper, 1/2 green pepper and 1/2 vidalia onion and sauteed them in 1 tbs of EVOO until they were softened. I took 1lb of Laura's Lean ground beef w/ 4% fat and a and little fresh parmigiana reggiano. I served it over farfalle, but you could use whatever pasta you like. One thing I would like to mention is that tonight while making the dish, I was conscience of not adding additional salt to anything. Not the best idea, because pasta really needs salt and this pasta didn't have any flavor. I recommend adding salt to the pasta water. The sauce was fine with no added salt especially with the cheese. If you want something healthy then I would give this dish a try. Good Eats!
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herbs,
meat sauce,
pasta. healthy
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