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Tortellini Pasta Salad is easily customizable with endless options for veggie add-ins! This salad starts with cooked tortellini- which you can find fresh, dry, or frozen, incorporates some fresh ...

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This light and fresh salad is packed with fresh vegetables and bright flavors (hello lemon and dill), and while I love the addition of grilled chicken, you can also make it meatless if you prefer...

https://ourbestbites.com/lemon-orzo-salad-with-veggies-and-chicken/

Oh, hey, everyone. It’s been a hot minute. We got completely busy with our Freezer Meal Guidebook  (which you definitely need as we move into the crazy busy holiday season). Throw in our famil...

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Earlier this year, I kept hearing about TikTok pasta. Feeling entirely too old to be on TikTok for anything other than animal videos, I largely ignored it. Besides, I was so busy with my first ye...

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One of our favorite ways to use up a lot of fresh produce quickly is to chop it up and toss it with some pasta and a favorite salad dressing and the possibilities are kind of endless. This partic...

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Is Pumpkin Alfredo the new PSL?  I developed this recipe and photographed it months ago in anticipation of fall and I feel like I’m seeing it everywhere now!  Either way, it’s DELICIOUS and...

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This Fresh Southwest Pasta Salad is my go-to whenever I need to take a dish to a party, and also a favorite summer dinner at our house.  It’s great with grilled chicken (Grilled Taco Chicken i...

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This is an at-home version of a beloved restaurant dish at local Idaho chain, Smokey Mountain Pizza.  If you’re ever in town, grab a bite over there, they’ve got lots of great food!  My hus...

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If you’ve visited Hawaii, you’ve probably had a plate lunch, which was probably served with Hawaiian Macaroni Salad. This recipe is not too sweet, quick and easy, and perfect for serving all ...

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I know Mardi Gras is barely a blip on everyone else’s radar, but it’s kind of consumed our lives here in Louisiana. If you’re wanting to celebrate, this Creamy Cajun Pasta with Peppers and ...

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So let me tell you about this Instant Pot Cheeseburger Macaroni. Sara and I were talking about how we wanted more Instant Pot one pot meals, easy weeknight dinners, all that. Since I wasn’t sup...

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So I have a serious addiction to Asian noodles. It’s very dangerous and can be extremely expensive to treat. These Thai Peanut Noodles are an incredibly easy and inexpensive fix–it uses a lot...

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I love a good skillet meal, and especially one that can all be made in ONE pot.  The pasta in Skillet Baked Ziti cooks right in the skillet and then it’s popped in the oven at the very end to ...

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This zucchini fettuccine recipe was born from the garden.  It’s the meal you make when you’ve got both herbs and zucchini ready to be used!  Garlic-infused olive oil coats warm pasta with f...

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Pasta is one of my ultimate comfort foods. I was so excited to see Sara’s makeover of my spaghetti and meatballs last week and I have another amazing, easy, family-friendly pasta recipe today b...

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  Or Spa-Peggy and Meatballs. Anyone? Anyone? Okay, in case you haven’t noticed, I’m a hard-core carb-lover here; pasta and bread are my ultimate comfort food. And does it really get any mor...

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With several favorite healthier cream-sauces on this site like our Guiltless Alfredo and our Cauliflower Cream Sauce, it dawned on me that we’ve neglected to talk about real-deal Alfredo sauce....

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Last week, I posted one of my favorite meal subscription recipes and told you about another recipe from the same service that I absolutely loved. Like, ate this Italian Sausage and Zucchini Lin...

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This time of year, home gardeners are usually getting a beautiful crop of ripe garden tomatoes and non-home gardeners are getting a great deal on fresh tomatoes at the store.  Either way, it’s...

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Traditional Alfredo sauce is insanely delicious and sometimes considered a splurge with its indulgent amounts of butter, cream, and cheese. This version still gives you a creamy luxurious experi...

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I’ve mentioned my dad before when talking about foods that I grew up loving. He actually didn’t cook all that often, but when he did it was always a deliciously big deal, usually involving th...

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Like I said last week, Sara and I have almost been doing this for 10 years. In those 10 years, there have been countless times when we’ve nearly posted the same recipe the same week or when we�...

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Growing up, after dinner was over, the rule was that everyone always pitched in and helped clean the kitchen. And I hated it. (Turns out like most things my parents made me do as a kid that I ha...

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Growing up my Dad cooked for us a lot, and he had 2 signature meals.  One was his famous “Thin Cakes,” and if you asked any of my siblings what the other one was, they’d undoubtedly answer...

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I think one of the greatest misconceptions about me being a food blogger is that I love to cook every single meal every single day. Don’t get me wrong, I love food, I love cooking, I love the c...

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Now for today’s recipe. I’ve been so excited to share this one with you guys.  We have a really popular recipe in our healthy cook book, “400 Calories or Less” for Creamy Chicken and Veg...

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Lasagna makes for fantastic leftovers; it’s one of those things that tastes just as good (if not better) the second time around. But the problem with most lasagna recipes is that they’re quit...

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  One of my most favorite things in the whole entire world is cheese sauce. Over noodles (I’d way rather have it drizzled on top of pasta than mixed together), over veggies (just about any veg...

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Several weeks ago I shared a post about Zucchini Noodles (click here to see it) and I included this photo of these Thai Peanut Zoodles and everyone was asking for the recipe, to today’s the day...

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So on Wednesday, I shared my love of the popular Spiralizer.   This is a quick and easy meal I’ve been making lately.  My husband usually gets home from work around lunch time, and most of ou...

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I started writing a post today about a recipe involving Zoodles (zucchini noodles) but then as I got going, I realized that the post itself was suuuuper long because I spent so much time talking ...

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If you follow me on social media, you might know I had a baby a couple of days ago.  And I’d like to point out how dedicated I am blogging from a hospital bed post-surgery to make sure all y�...

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When I was 23, I got my tonsils out during the last Christmas break of my college career and it was pretty much the most miserable two weeks ever. It didn’t help things that my doctor prescribe...

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*Long-Time Reader Favorite!* This hearty and flavorful garden tomato sauce is made by roasting tomatoes in the oven.  It’s very hands-off, easy to make, and  perfect for an abundance of garde...

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So you guys may know that when it comes to plants, I kill them. Not on purpose. But I just cannot keep them alive (I also once accidentally killed a pair of canaries, but that’s another story. ...

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Kate and I are definitely lovers of sauces and spreads.  We make a mean BBQ Sauce, delectably sweet caramel, and chocolate sauces, fantastically flavorful green chili sauce and flavored butters...

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A few weeks ago my house turned into a video set and today you get to see why!  Click play below to take a little sneak peek into my life, my home, and my kitchen. (And watch for the part where ...

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We certainly couldn’t do a Retro-Week without a casserole, right??  You may have noticed we don’t have many casseroles on our site.  And we kind of pride ourselves on having only have one (...

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There were a lot of things I loved about living in Utah, but one of the things that drove me crazy was that if we ever wanted to go away for the weekend, there wasn’t really anywhere within a c...

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Let me just get one thing out of the way:  I’m not the kind of girl who makes her own pasta.  I don’t even bake my own bread.  I like buying stuff at the store in nice convenient packages....

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This is the first summer in a long time that I didn’t plant a garden.  You guys know that with my background in horticulture and my current-ground (yes I made that term up, why doesn’t anyon...

https://ourbestbites.com/zucchini-ribbon-pasta-with-light-creamy-lemon-basil-sauce/

Do you guys ever feel like you have about 15 million more things on your to-do list every day than you can possibly do? Yeah, that’s where I am right now. Like I mentioned earlier this week, my...

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