Category: Italian

Baked Ziti 2024

Baked Ziti can be compared to lausuagna but there are differences, and it can taste absolutely amazing, and a very fun dish, doesn’t take a lot of prep time and can be quite tasty, and a crowd pleaser.

You can buy your marinara sauce, or you can buy it, see the link below to our homemade marinara sauce we made.

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Its fun, and easy, and it tastes amazing!

Phase 1 Choppy Choppy

So if you have a food processor run these through it to get it almost puried, if you don’t then chop it up as finely as you can.

1 Large onion, a whole garlic, roasted peppers (This is optional, you don’t have to have this.)

Phase 2 Cheese Please!

You will want to grade a lot of parmesan cheese, (You can buy this pre graded.) and your Mozzarella, (please do not buy pre graded.) You are going to need enough of this.

Phase 3 The Noodles

Normally this recipe calls for Ziti noodles, however these are not always easy to get, and in fact, I’ve never been able to find them, penne noodles work just fine.

Cook your noodles either near done, or done according to the package directions, when done drain the water, however do not drain them as we need the starch on it later to help the sauce to stick to the noodles.

Phase 4 The Sauce

Oil your pot and put your onions and ground beef in, cook until the onions are getting cooked, then add the garlic and then roasted garlic , put salt and pepper in.

Put 5 cups of marinara sauce in and mix well.

Put a container of robata cheese in and mix well.

Add your pasta and mix it.

On a casserole dish put a small spread of your meat sauce no noodles.

This way you won’t need to grease our pan.

Pre Heat your oven to 350 degrees.

Now put half of your meat sauce into the pan.

Cover in half your parmesan cheese, and your mozzarella

Now put the rest of your meat sauce in, and cover the rest with cheese.

Now bake it for 25 minutes!

When done leave sit for at least 10 minutes before serving, (other wise your going to have a lot of loss flavor)

Serve!

We hope you like this, its one of our favorite dishes, and we through we would come back to this and share with you our favorite!

Marinara Sauce 2024

Marinara sauce is one of those Italian sauces that you are going to use on almost every type of pasta sauce, spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce, Lausanne sauce, this sauce is very versatile and can be used for a lot of different things, and honestly tastes great.

And another fun fact, is you can easily buy this, and yes you can, but it also has a lot of preservatives, and not as healthy or even as good tasting. Sure its more convenient, and some times cheaper, but your sacrificing taste, and at the end of the day what do you want a cheap meal, or do you want something that has value and taste!

You might think this is a hard dish to make, and really it isn’t.

First question, do you have a good blender, if not do you have a good food processor? If you don’t have a good blender, take all the ingredients you have to chop and put them through a food processor, if not, chop them as fine as you can, along with the tomatoes take a potato masher and be ready to mash them once cooked, if you have a blender follow along, you can be creative on making things work!

Canned tomatoes are the best you can use for this unless you have ones grown from your garden, buying tomatoes from your grocery store isn’t as good as canned ones.

Phase 1 Choppy Choppy

  1. Chop up one large onion, 2 whole garlics, 3 to 5 chili peppers.

Phase 2 Cook time!

This would be the easiest in a Wok, other wise a big pot might be better, or a very large frying pan.

  1. Add a lot of extra virgin olive oil in your pan and heat it up really good, when its hot and bubbling then go to the next step.
  2. Put your onions in and cook them until they start getting soft.
  3. Add your garlic and cook them until they become fraquent.
  4. Add in a few sprays of white wine, (You can use red, but its a bit heavier, rice wine would be ok too, or you can leave this step out.)
  5. Add 3 cans of crushed tomatoes, you can add what ever type of canned tomatoes you want, for tomatoes they should be canned unless you have garden grown tomatoes, (those are best).
  6. Add a lot of oregano, parsley and basil, and mix that in well.
  7. Add some chili peppers, this step is optional.
  8. Add some salt and pepper.
  9. Cook this out until its done, and take it off of the heat.
  10. Put the sauce through a blender.
  11. Once cooled down bottle and fridge.

This is one of the most tastiest and amazing and far healthier than store bought, if you trying to entertain, this will really impress them, and if your going to do Italian, lets do it right, we hope you enjoyed this!

Sausage Party

The sausage party is a great treat in the summer, instead of having a crappy hotdog, lets make a sausage, made just right, easy simple, but yet tastes amazing!

Phase 1 Boil The Sausages

Choose your sausages, you can get many different flavors at your local grocery store, but choose the ones that look good and think will taste good, start by taking a pot and boil some water, when the water is boiling start to boil your sauces until they are cooked.

Phase 2 Chop some veggies

I like Onions Red Peppers and Mushrooms, give them all a good rough chop, simple as that.

Phase 3 BBQ Sauce

We could use a simple store bought bbq sauce and it would be easy and done with, and please feel free to if you want, but we like to make things a bit more complicated as it tastes better and youll have a better reward at the end.

In a bowl mix in.

  1. Chinese BBQ Sauce.
  2. American BBQ Sauce.
  3. Dijon Mustard (You can use yellow if thats all you have.)
  4. Rice Wine Vinigar.
  5. Apple Cyder Vinigar.

Mix this well and set aside!

Phase 4 Cook the Veggies.

Cook your veggies down so they are soft but not caramalized.

Phase 5 Re Cook The Sausages

Take the sausages out and slice them up then mix them in with the BBQ sauce, and then fry them up till they are done, nothing to complicated here, you want them to be grilled good.

Phase 6 Fill The Bun

Take a larger hotdog bun, and put your sausages inside it, and then fill with some veggies, you shouldn’t need condiments on this as the BBQ sauce should still be dripping over the sausages that it should do the job fine, and your done!

This was short and sweet and simple, it doesn’t take a whole lot to do this and it tastes amazing, you can serve this with corn on the cob and some fries! You can add cheese on top if you like as well!

Fettuccine Alfredo

Fettuccine Alfredo is a great dish, tastes amazing and one of the more expensive dishes you can get when you go out to eat, and how awesome would it be to be able to share this with your partner and server her a better dish than she would if you went out! I think your date would be super impressed.

Phase 1 The Noodles.

Cook the noodles as directions tell you, however when your done you want to save a bowl full of the water.

Phase 2 Garlic and Onion

Cut up your garlic and onion, start cooking them to caramelize them with salt and pepper. When they are done put them through a food processor to make them into a puree.

Phase 3 Chicken.

Cube the chicken and then cook it, just salt and pepper is fine.

Put it aside when done.

Phase 4 Lets get cooking!

Lets pour some oil in your wok (or large frying pan)

You want to have half a thing of butter, cut up to make melt easier.

Once the butter is melted or close enough dump some heavy cream in.

Then a bowl full of your pasta water (You can dump the rest now, but the flavor of the water is better than just using regular water.)

Pour in some onion and garlic puree, if you had too much you don’t have to have it all just what you want.

Have some grated cheese, I prefer to use blocks and just shred it on my own and on this I would use 1 block, you can use 2 half blocks of different cheese if you like.)

Add the cheese in slowly until its melted, and its important to keep stiring.

Add your chicken (if you prefer to do this vegan just skip the chicken all together.)

Now add your noodles, and at this point let it cook and simmer for another 5 minutes.

This is an awesome meal, and one to impress, its really not a lot of work, but to someone else it may seem like it, I hope you like, what do you think.

Italian Style Spaghettis Sauce

This is a great base for spaghetti sauce, it is done Italian style, and it is tasty, use this as a base, and add from there to your own flavor.

Ingredients

  1. Quarter cup of water.
  2. A TBS of baking soda.
  3. Olive oil.
  4. A whole garlic.
  5. Chili pepper.
  6. 2 Stocks of celery.
  7. 1 Large onion.
  8. Parsley.
  9. Sage.
  10. Oregino.
  11. Black Pepper.
  12. 3 Cans of crushed tomatos.
  13. 2 Cans of tomato paste.

Phase 1 Slurry

In a cup have a quarter cup of water, and add a tablespoon of baking soda, mix well and set aside.

Phase 2 Starting the sauce.

  1. Food process the garlic.
  2. Add a good amount of extra virgin olive oil into a deep frying pan and set the heat on.
  3. Add the garlic to it and start cooking that into the oil, it will infuse it.
  4. While that cooks in the food processor add 2 sticks of celery, some chili peppers, and finally 1 large onion, process this and then put this in a bowl and save it for now.
  5. Add your spices to the pan and mix well.
  6. Add your canned crushed tomatoes.
  7. At this point you want to be constantly stirring especially while you add.
  8. Add your cans of tomato paste.
  9. Now add your veggies.
  10. At this point your nearly done and you need to make sure its cooking down some and mixed well.
  11. Lastly you need to add your slurry of baking soda, and stir a lot now, as it will start to boil over, but this extra step will help you with indigestion and other issues that a high concentration of tomato product will cause you.
  12. Take it off the stove and cool down and a bit and your ready to serve, if your like us and like to save it for later in the week, wait till it is completely cooled down and freeze.

This is it! Now you can make your own meat balls, and noodles, you can add and modify this, but this will give you a great base, and honestly having the slurry will help with anyone with stomach issues, we hope you enjoy!