New Recipes!

Tried some new recipes that you should try too...here they are. 

Penne with Vodka Sauce and Vegetables

 

Ingredients
1  box (14 1/2 ounces)  Barilla Plus Multigrain Penne
1  pound  zucchini, cut into 1/2-inch quarter-moons
1  cup  frozen peas
8  cups  baby spinach
1  tablespoon  olive oil
1    small onion, peeled and finely chopped
6  ounces  sliced Canadian bacon, chopped
1/2  cup  vodka
1  can (15 ounces)  no-salt-added diced tomatoes
1  can (8 ounces)  no-salt-added tomato sauce
1/2  teaspoon  salt
1/2 to 1/4  teaspoon  red pepper flakes
1/2  cup  fat-free half-and-half
1/2  cup  shredded Parmesan cheese

Directions

1. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add penne
and cook following package directions, 11 minutes. Add
zucchini and peas during last 3 minutes. Stir in spinach. Drain and place back into the pot.
2. Meanwhile, heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and cook 5 minutes, stirring occasionally; add Canadian bacon and vodka and cook 1 minute. Stir in tomatoes, tomato sauce, salt and red pepper.
Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes.
3. Stir half-and-half and 1/4 cup cheese into the sauce. Toss with pasta and let stand for 10 minutes. Stir and spoon into serving bowl and top with remaining cheese. 


Alterations:

• no can do-sville on the Canadian Bacon--too expensive this week--instead ham steak, that was 1.99 along with $1 off coupon (yay)
• no Barilla pasta...had Ronzoni Veggie Pasta in the cupboard already

Individual Apple Crisp...

This one was easy. We had some apples that had been around for a little while...and were to that, you know, almost that grainy too far ripe stage. I didn't want to throw them out--I've been having a "use everything, don't let anything get thrown away" fit lately...

Anywho, I sliced up 4 sort of on the small size apples, mixed some butter, flour, brown sugar, allspice, and oats together. Sprinkled it on top of three small pyrex ramekin type dishes full of apples. Baked them at 400 degrees for the time it took me to make dinner...and voila! 


 


And recently, since I'm also on a "how in the world do I satisfy my sweet tooth while watching what I eat?" kick... Chocolate Muffins.


This one by far is the EASIEST..... 1 devils food cake mix, 1 can (15oz) canned pumpkin [the packed kind, not pumpkin pie type], and a little bit of water, maybe 1/3 cup. Mix it all together, put in muffin tin with papers and bake for 15 minutes at 350 degrees.