Easy Pasta with Italian Sausage and Vegetables

This delicious and easy pasta recipe is a healthy weeknight meal loaded with mushrooms, broccoli, spinach and tomatoes!

This delicious and easy pasta recipe
is a healthy weeknight meal
loaded with mushrooms, broccoli, spinach and tomatoes!

Use any pasta you have on hand.  I used Casarecce pasta, which is short twists of pasta, which appears rolled inward making them resemble a scroll.
I like trying and experimenting with different pastas – it changes your dish even when you’ve used the same ingredients and makes it appear as a new pasta dish.

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Slow Cooker Shredded Chicken Tacos

Put your slow cooker to use with this easy recipe for Shredded Chicken Tacos and Tostadas- frozen chicken breasts, taco seasoning & salsa.

Slow Cooker, Crock Pot
or wh
atever YOU call it.
I love mine!

Just throw in the ingredients in the morning and let it simmer all day.  Not only does it smell good while it’s cooking, it such a great feeling when you don’t have to decide what’s for dinner at the last minute.

This shredded chicken is so tasty and you can do a lot of different things with it:

  • soft tacos
  • hard shell tacos
  • tostadas
  • burritos
  • enchiladas
  • chicken burrito bowl (over rice)

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Butternut Squash Lasagna

Layers of butternut squash, Italian turkey sausages and cheese are baked for a healthy pasta-free casserole.

No Pasta Noodles!!

Much more carb-friendly than
traditional lasagna.

This is a recipe I created after eating this dish in a restaurant.  Many times after we’ve dined out and had something really good, I’ll come home and try to recreate it.  There have been hits…and misses.  LOL!

This Butternut Squash Lasagna came from Houlihan’s.  Our location  closed a few years ago.  I’m not sure if the entire chain shut down or just our local one.  But they always served up some great dishes.  We miss it.

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Italian Meatloaf

This flavorful and delicious Italian Meatloaf is not your typical meatloaf. And the topping sets it off and makes it even more tasty!

A different take on the old, boring meatloaf recipe – Italian Meatloaf!

 

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Zucchini Lasagna

Healthy Zucchini Lasagna has layers of ground turkey, marinara, ricotta cheese and mozzarella cheese for a delicious, low carb, low calorie alternative to traditional lasagna!

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This ‘Pasta-less’ Zucchini Lasagna is a healthy alternative to your regular lasagna recipe.
It is packed with flavor – minus the carbs, calories and fat!

This has become a favorite at our house.  We love it and don’t miss the pasta when we’re eating it.

The first time I had this dish was at my sister’s house.  My mother and I had traveled to my sister’s to stay the night and then was leaving the next morning on a flight together to Florida for my 50th birthday.  When we arrived at her house this was in the oven cooking and it smelled wonderful!

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Thai Chicken and Noodles

Skip the takeout and opt for this healthier take on Pad Thai – Chicken, vegetables and noodles.

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Easy Thai – chicken, vegetables and noodles!

This is an easy Thai dish that tastes just as good as takeout.  In fact, we ate at a local Thai restaurant a few years ago and this recipe tastes better than their ‘real deal’.  Maybe it was the wrong Thai restaurant to choose but since then I’m reluctant to try another one.

Have all your ingredients prepped, chopped and handy and this recipe doesn’t take long.  You’ll be eating this Thai Chicken and Noodles in less time than it takes to decide what restaurant to order from!

Thai food is known for  its spicy edge and this dish has its share of spice!  But you can control the heat to your taste.

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