If you enjoy cooking, there’s no need to settle for store boxed pasta when creating the next family meal. Using homemade ingredients makes any dish more delectable, especially noodles and pasta.
To learn how, pick up Aliza Green’s latest cookbook, Making Artisan Pasta. Her book provides an easy-to-follow guide to making your own noodles, fettuccine, ravioli, lasagna, and more.
The visual tutorials in Green’s book contain detailed instructions for chefs of any level of experience. Learn how to make a variety of colorful pastas with flavors like red pepper, porcini mushrooms, asparagus, or flours like buckwheat, chestnut, and rye.
In addition to providing numerous recipes from noodles and pasta to dumplings and Chinese pot stickers, Aliza also offers some helpful hints and techniques to use in the kitchen. These fresh ideas will inspire you to spice things up in the kitchen!
Disclosure: Mom Central received a copy of Making Artisan Pasta to facilitate this review.
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My family loves chocolate, but we also want to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Careful eating habits tops our list of priorities to maintaining a long and healthy life, but so many temptations surround us!
Finally, I found a chocolate bar that can be enjoyed without feeling guilty: Lily’s Dark Chocolate. Made from all-natural ingredients and 55% genuine cocoa, Lily’s bars use stevia (a zero-calorie natural sweetener) instead of traditional sugar. This makes the chocolate 25% lower in calories than other dark chocolate.
Without sugar, these bars also do not raise blood sugar or contain extra calories. They provide a practical treat for diabetics or anyone watching their weight, supplying all the indulgence without the negative health effects. Lily’s also ensures that the chocolate has been Fair Trade Certified.
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As parents, we face the challenge of providing our children with healthy, balanced diets, while fighting their sweet craving as much as we fight our own. Often times if we eat healthy, we can get our kids to follow suit– but what if there isn’t a kid-friendly version of our favorite snack? Well Chobani has solved that problem with their new line of Chobani Champions.
When first confronted with Chobani Champions Greek yogurt, I immediately scooped up one of each kid-friendly flavor: honey-nana, very berry, vanilla chocolate chunk, and orange vanilla. The smooth, creamy texture is consistent with Chobani’s Greek Yogurt, making this kid-friendly option as satisfying to me as to my child.
Made with only natural ingredients and without any preservatives, artificial colors or sweeteners, Chobani Champions present healthy and delicious options for a growing child. Also packed with protein, Greek yogurt offers a filling and satisfying after school snack for an active child.
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I love food and I love wine – eating, drinking and cooking. I think a perfectly paired wine-and-food combo elevates even the most mundane of weeknight fare into a celebration and a splash of wine tossed into a recipe adds a transformative burst of flavor.
Yet despite the myriad upsides of this combination, wine brings on some inherent challenges to both cook and diner. Between the necessary wine-opening tools and storage issues for the ever-present half-empty bottle, the logistics of drinking wine seem more complicated than they should. The challenges continue for home chefs who need both red and white wines on hand for cooking – but who may favor one over the other for drinking. For example, do red wine lovers buy – and ultimately crack open – a bottle of white wine if they only need a quarter cup for that Dover sole recipe? And then toss it in the door of the fridge, where it sits for the next week or so?
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For anyone who enjoys springtime entertaining, great food, and sun-splashed drinks, Fabrizia Limoncello becomes a welcome addition to dinner parties, barbecues, and family get-togethers. Limoncello serves as a traditional after-dinner drink in Italy made from the region’s fresh lemons, offering up the vibrant flavors of the Mediterranean. A trip to Italy to meet extended family members inspired Bostonian Phil Mastroianni to bring this taste to the U.S. and to create his own brand: Fabrizia Limoncello.
Entirely handmade, this all-natural liquor provides a refreshing beverage with a little kick. Each batch begins with lemons hand-peeled in New Hampshire and put through a unique three-month infusion process. The company maintains a “homemade” feel by only processing small batches and using all-natural methods. Brother Nick heads up production – reinforcing the family tradition and ensuring quality, such as Fabrizia Limoncello’s Gold Medal at the 2012 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.
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With spring in full bloom, we know the hot, sunny days of summer will be here before long, so now’s the time to begin planning for summertime refreshments.
With the new Jelly Belly electric ice shaver, a cool, refreshing snow cone can be your family’s go-to treat – without a trip to the circus or waiting for the ice cream truck. With flavors such as green apple, very cherry, cotton candy, tangerine, pina colada, and berry blue, Jelly Belly offers a variety of ways to treat friends and family this summer.
The electric ice shaver features an adjustable blade and removable cup holder to make snow cones quick and easy. A drip tray protects the kitchen from getting sticky so clean-up stays manageable – regardless of how messy your young helpers may be.
In addition to the electric ice shaver, Jelly Belly also offers a diverse line of children’s products such as scented pencils, bubble wands, lip balm, and iPhone cases.
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I love to cook, and few things please me more than whipping up a spectacular meal for my family. While I’ve always relied on traditional non-stick pans to make the post-meal clean-up a little easier, I recently made the decision to look for different alternatives for my cookware collection.
As part of my search, I became aware of a few “next-generation” pans that incorporate new materials and innovative product designs for a whole new approach to cooking.
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 photo credit: National Pork Board
Nothing brings my family to the table faster than a delicious holiday meal. Served with a variety of side dishes and vegetables, Easter brunch represents an annual household favorite.
This year the National Pork Board wants to help make your holiday meal even more irresistible. Thinking beyond the basics, new flavor combinations will provide a memorable twist on the classic ham. I can’t wait to try this recipe for Thyme-Basted Ham with roasted grapes from Pork Be Inspired. With only 20 minutes of prep time required, this dish offers a hint of sweetness to our main course.
Thyme-Basted Ham with Roasted Grapes
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 2 to 2 1/2 hours
Serves 15-20 (4 oz servings)
Ingredients
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 photo credit: foodformyfamily.com
With St. Patrick’s Day approaching, there’s no better time to introduce your family to something new at the dinner table. Try these Irish-inspired dishes in your home, and you may even discover a new family favorite!
Colcannon, a classic potato recipe, offers a delicious way for even the pickiest eaters to enjoy a recipe with Irish heritage. It also includes kale and cabbage that will provide important vegetable servings for every diet. Use this recipe as a side dish with butter or as a base for the beef stew.
This Guinness beef stew recipe serves as a rich and flavorful option to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. It still makes a family-friendly dish as the alcohol burns off and leaves meat tender and delicious. Serve this stew over your colcannon for the perfect combination of beef and potatoes.
Colcannon
recipe from Food For My Family
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