To make the soup ahead, omit the pasta and refrigerate or freeze the soup. As the soup reheats over medium heat, cook pasta separately according to package directions, then stir it in shortly before serving. Use leaves from celery stalks as a garnish.
Layers of ziti pasta, beefy tomato sauce, sour cream and Italian cheeses get a final dash of flavor with a generous sprinkling of chopped fresh basil before baking.
Chicken breast meat, zucchini, tomato, fresh basil, and feta cheese make a delicious main dish when served over hot quinoa that's been simmered in chicken broth.
Delicious garlic and fresh tomato sauce cover tender pork cutlets. Serve with crusty bread, a leafy salad, and maybe a side of buttered pasta with a little of the sauce on top. Terrific and fast.
'We raise spaghetti squash in our garden, and I enjoy coming up with different ways to use it,' writes Wanda Ivan of Salina, Kansas. 'We like the colorful mix of tomatoes, carrot, broccoli and snow peas in this microwave dish.'
A simple, delicious dinner using up the glut of wintered-over broccoli from my parents' garden. You may use sausage or veggie sausage instead of bacon, substituting olive oil for the bacon fat.
It took all summer to grow your tomatoes, now use a slow cooker to make them into a versatile tomato sauce flavored with sauteed onion, garlic and bell pepper, and seasoned with oregano, basil, parsley, sugar and tomato paste.
A spicy tomato-based sauce loaded with fresh zucchini, bell peppers, mushrooms and spicy Italian sausage is served over browned polenta rounds and sprinkled with Parmesan cheese. You can substitute yellow squash or eggplant for the zucchini depending on your tastes.
Carrots, potatoes, mushrooms, onions, and celery are cooked along with the meat in a mixture of dried onion soup mix and condensed golden mushroom soup.
