Sunday’s Kitchen Korner: Sundried Tomato Pesto Tortellini

August 17, 2008 By 3 Comments

Sorry I’ve been MIA lately but here is a great crowd pleaser when you are short on time! This dish is always popular when having guests over for dinner or at a potluck! If you wanted to add grilled chicken to this dish that is also a great topper!

 

19weeks (30) What you’ll need:

1 pkg of tortellini (I use the cheese stuffed kind) and it’s family sized

1 small pkg of sundried tomato sauce

2 cans of diced tomatoes (unflavoured) I use Hunts family size can’s

2 cloves of garlic (minced)

salt to taste

Cheddar cheese to top the dish off

 

What do I do next?

19weeks Boil your tortellini so that it’s ready to eat (generally 8-10 minutes)

In a separate pan take your sundried tomato sauce and your diced tomatoes and mix them together on medium heat–leave on medium for about 10 minutes.

Add in your garlic and salt and let simmer for another 5 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix your pasta with the sauce and place in a casserole dish. *note* you may need two dishes for the amount of pasta the family size makes, but if you want to save the second dish of pasta you can place it uncooked (with sauce and pasta mixed) in freezer until you need this dish and then just add cheese and bake.

Place in oven covered with cheddar cheese for about 20 minutes, if you like your cheese crispy broil it for under a minute.

optional: grill up some chicken and top off this dish with some chicken!

 

Let cool for 2 minutes and enjoy!

 

As always if you have a recipe you would like to share please email me at erincarrasco@gmail.com with a picture of the finished product!

 

Happy Cooking!

Filed Under: Food and Drink, Kitchen Korner

Yes that’s poo on my clothes…but my son is still cute.

August 4, 2008 By 7 Comments

It’s funny how those things used to gross me out. I mean don’t get me wrong, I don’t stand up and announce that I have poo on my clothes to celebrate it and jump for joy, but I also don’t freak out that there is human feces on my clothes. When did that change?

When you take the spit, puke, poo –or whatever is oozing out of your baby and wipe it on yourself because you have nothing else to wipe it on, you’ve entered the MommyZone/DaddyZone.

But entering the MommyZone,DaddyZone isn’t all bad or disgusting. Especially when you get the giggles out of them, or they recognize you in the morning and give you huge toothless grins. It always amazes me when he sees things and ”looks” like he’s seeing them for the first time–well because he is. It’s this amazing innocence and lust for life that is so precious because one day it will be gone.

How can the ceiling fan keep his attention for so long, just what secret does it have?

All of our kids have quirks–things that only you, and your family may find cute but I’m going to share what my son’s are because well this is my blog and they make me crack up!

  1. In his Jolly jumper, he only bounces with one leg, he’ll touch down with two but lift up the other one and bounce off with only one leg.. why who knows. He actually looks kind of gimpy LOL I’ve made sure that he can touch with both etc. but alas it’s just one leg bouncer for now.
  2. He whacks his head to sleep. And I mean hard! He’ll be trying to “soothe” himself–how this sooths him I’m not so sure but none the less he is semi-sleeping, and then when he goes through his sleep cycle, he starts to bonk himself to sleep. Hard enough to shake the video monitor in his crib… it’s so funny, I may just take a video to show you all!
  3. This last one comes and goes, it was more so when he was really young. When he was about to sneeze, he’d go. Ahhhhhhhhh really loudly, like “oh my god something is happening to me” and then he’d sneeze a few seconds later. So it was nice to have a warning for the sneeze. Now it’s more of an afterthought. He’ll sneeze and then go uhhhhhhhhhhh. So cute!

 

What do all of your kids do that crack you up?

Filed Under: Babies, New Mom

Sunday’s Kitchen Korner: Chicken Kebabs

August 3, 2008 By 1 Comment

Thanks to Michelle for this recipe! Looking for a summer smash at your next BBQ or for Monday’s supper? This is a simple healthy choice for all you veggie and meat lovers! These are always a tasty treat at our family get together’s!

 

Chicken Kebabs

What you’ll need:

One Zucchini
Four Chicken breasts
One red pepper, yellow pepper, orange pepper
One red onion
1 bottle of Kraft Roasted Red pepper and parmesan dressing

 

What do I do next?

chicken_kebabs_grilling Wash and Cut all the veggies and chicken up into bite size pieces

Marinate for four hours in the Kraft dressing (or increase flavour by leaving it overnight in the fridge of course!)

Put chicken and veggies on kebabs alternating meat and veggies–metal skewers are best, otherwise you will want to soak the wooden ones in water for at least 20 minutes

Grill on BBQ for 30 minutes on med-high heat (or until cooked thoroughly)

Serve and Enjoy!

 

 

As always,if you have a healthy recipe you’d like to share please email them to me along with a picture to erincarrasco@gmail.com.

Filed Under: Food and Drink, Kitchen Korner
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