This lasagna is full of garden veggies!
You can make eggplant parmesan like Olive Garden with this easy copycat recipe.
Have an abundance of fresh tomatoes? Make your very own tomato paste from scratch by blending and then slowly simmering 3 simple ingredients together: tomatoes (fresh roma or plum tomatoes are best), fresh garlic and salt. This do-it yourself recipe for tomato paste also freezes wonderfully too!
No blanching required.
Fall in love with the flavors of this cheesy eggplant rollatini! No breading, no oils, just cooked eggplant stuffed with ricotta, parmesan cheese, and lots of fresh basil. Then baked to perfection with freshly grated cheese and rich tomato sauce - the most perfect, low carb, Italian dish that the whole family will enjoy.
Because of our battle with the grasshopper and drought, I can only claim a few small successes in my garden this year. There are 4 tomato plants, 4 beet plants, a few rows of onions and garlic and a container of potatoes still alive and well. The fact that anything survived at all is a wonderful thing to me, and the fact that I actually got a bumper crop from my 2 San Marzano Tomato plants is joy. I have tried for the last 2 years to grow San Marzano Tomatoes from the seeds my Mom sent me, and haven't had very good success, but this year, in spite of all my other failures, here they are growing and healthy. If I get around to figuring out what I did "right" in this instance I will be sure to let you know. Was it the drought and grasshopper pruning at the beginning of summer, or the extra extremes I went to to protect and coddle them, or the huge abundance of rain we got at the end of summer that did the trick...I don't know, but something went well with them. So I'm celebrating. I want to share my Tomato Sauce with you. In our family we have a "thing" for the perfect Spaghetti Sauce, and the way we talk about it and enjoy it makes me think we have Italian somewhere in our blood line. I don't always get to start with garden fresh tomatoes, but when I do, well, its an extra bonus. To us the best spaghetti sauce is a simple sauce with only a few ingredients; Tomatoes, Olive oil, onions, garlic, basil, salt and pepper, and I love it best when all the ingredients are fresh from the garden or farmers maker. 1. Pick your tomatoes. 2. Look at them a little, admire them, enjoy their delightful shape, their color and their musty smell. This is an essential part of enjoying them don't you think? 3. Bring a large pan or stock pot of water to boil. 4. Place a large bowl of ice within reach of the boiling water. 5. Put your tomatoes into the boiling water for 30 seconds to 2 minutes. 6. Remove them with a strainer and put right into the ice. 7. With a sharp knife take a hold of the skin and just pull right off. 8. Once you have all of your skinless tomatoes, take each one in hand and squeeze it over another bowl, to squeeze out the seeds. It seems a little funny just squeezing it; but it works, so squeeze away. You will not get them all, but you will get the majority of them. 9. Pour the seeds into a a strainer and strain the juice from the seeds. 10. Now add the strained juice back in with the tomatoes. 11. Put olive oil, minced garlic and chopped onion into a large skillet. Saute until tender. 12. Add tomatoes and juice. 13. Simmer for 10 minutes. 14. Mash tomatoes with a potato masher (for a crushed tomatoe sauce), or use your hand held blender to blend until smooth. 15. Add basil and simmer another 30 to 40 minutes or until the color goes from bright red to a more orange red. And now you have a wonderful Marinara Sauce for spaghetti or pizza or any other Italian dish you might like. This makes the best sauce as is, but is also great with ground meat or meatballs. "Mangia, Mangia" San Marzano Marinara Sauce You, can of course use any tomatoes for this recipe. I have used all kinds. The San Marzano is a wonderful, meaty, Plum tomato with a delicious flavor and makes a great marinara sauce. It is a gourmet favorite these days, and is often called for in good Italian recipes. Ingredients 3 - 4 Tablespoons Olive Oil 1/2 a medium onion finely chopped 3 - 4 cloves garlic minced 1 small handful fresh basil chopped/ or 1 - 1 1/2 Tablespoons dried basil 5 -6 cups skinned San Marzano Tomatoes with juice Salt and pepper to taste In a large skillet, heat oil and lightly sauté onion and garlic until tender. Add the tomatoes and juice and simmer for 10 minutes. Mash tomatoes with a potato masher for a crushed tomato sauce, or use your hand held blender to blend until smooth. Add basil and simmer for 30 -40 minutes or until tomato sauce has turned from a deep bright red to an orange color. Add salt and pepper to taste. At this point you can serve over pasta, or add meatballs or cooked ground meat and serve with spaghetti.
Try some of these delicious, quick and easy fresh tomato recipes if you have some ripe tomatoes at home and wonder what to do with those tomatoes. The collection includes tomato salad recipes, one-pan tomato dinner recipes and tomato pasta recipes!
Olive Garden Five Cheese Marinara Recipe
Looking for an organic pest control spray to ditch the icky pesticide chemicals? This spray uses simple ingredients you already have in your kitchen.
Hands down this is the best Swiss Chard Recipe Ever! The crispy pancetta really adds to the flavor of the Swiss chard. And finishing it with a little balsamic vinegar gives it a bit of acidity making this a fantastic dish. I love sautéed greens. I always feel like I have eaten something healthy when I eat fresh sautéed greens. I volunteered to work in the garden at school today. What was supposed be an hour turned into two and half hours. I got a little carried away. The garden was fun; I can’t remember the last time I shoveled 5 wheel barrows full of anything. I was great exercise and I really was working hard. I was so hot and sweaty I had to jump in the pool to cool down. I was a little over heated and covered in dirt from head to toe. Over all it was an awesome day. Most of you know by now I have a small garden. It is very small in comparison to the school’s garden. My little garden is not nearly as much work. It was great fun and I had a great time seeing all the butterflies, bull frogs, birds, bumble bees, and lots of worms. The photography class stopped in while I was working, I pointed out the bull frog to a few girls. I hope they captured the moment. He was eating bugs. I wish I had my camera, I missed some great photos. The hard work was really satisfying. As a reward for all my effort and hard work, I picked some fresh Swiss Chard. I wanted to post the recipe so that others working in the garden would have a great recipe to use when they pick their Swiss chard. It was fantastic if I say so myself. I hope you enjoy this recipe. Thanks for your comments and all the sharing of my posts. You are greatly appreciated. Bon Appetit, Cecelia
This Zuppa Toscana recipe (inspired by the classic dish at The Olive Garden) is easy to make, full of the most delicious zesty Italian flavors, and it's so cozy and comforting!
Buy tomatoes while they're cheap this summer and you'll be enjoying your bounty all winter long in soups and stews with this homemade tomato paste.
Tomato passata recipe is made with only 1 ingredient: the tomato. In fact, Italian passata is made from ripe, juicy, flavorful tomatoes cooked briefly and then removed from the seeds and skin.The result is a pure tomato juice with its pulp and nothing else, used in Italy as a base for many traditional recipes.Stored in glass jars or bottles without the addition of preservatives, flavorings, salt or water. Sometimes it comes with some fresh basil leaves but nothing more.
Slightly bitter and perfectly crunchy, this leafy vegetable deserves your attention.
Olive Garden Breadsticks , Let’s learn how to make Olive Garden breadsticks at home and even better! It’s the best thing on their menu and when you make them at home freshly baked,
This okonomiyaki recipe is very simple and fun to create! It is a frittata-like savory Japanese pancake using a cabbage hashbrown-like texture.
Pasta alla Norma is a delicious Sicilian pasta dish with eggplant, marinara and basil. This amazing recipe features roasted eggplant, not fried! Recipe yields 4 entrée servings.
After creating this recipe for Better Than Olive Garden Seafood Alfredo, I rarely go to the OG anymore because this version is way better!
Des conserves d'un super curry végétalien auquel il suffira d'ajouter du riz pour un repas rapide et savoureux.
Julia Child's recipe for Ratatouille - a dish that "perfumes the kitchen with the essence of Provence and is certainly one of the great Mediterranean dishes'.
Makes 1 cup
These easy gardening tips guide you to grow carrots for the best harvest at home garden, and it even works for a container garden.
