Five Tomatoes, A Bag of Spinach Cheese Ravioli Pasta, Some Chicken Broth, and Basil
Okay, there are a few more ingredients needed to complete this recipe than what is named in the title, but you get the idea. I was asked to cook dinner because my wife was going to take one of our kids to choir practice. We try to work as a team and cooking is one of my favorite things to do, so who's complaining? When I got home from work, I did not find a whole of ingredients to work with. I searched around my pantry and found enough stuff to come up with a dinner that rivals anything served at the Olive Garden...
Early Planning Tips For Your Thanksgiving Dinner
First Pho Restaurant Set To Open in West Virginia
Last week my wife and I were lamenting the fact that there were no restaurants nearby that offered Vietnamese cuisine. In fact, there are no Vietnamese restaurants in our whole entire state! We had to travel up to Pittsburgh or Columbus to find the closest. We have a few recipes for Vietnamese dishes, but proper ingredients are hard to come by. This is about the change in a big way.
Better than Macaroni and Cheese in a Box
Macaroni and Cheese in a box. For some weird reason my kids love this stuff. It's cheap and you can make pretty fast on the stove top. I remember that the best thing about mac and cheese when I was growing up was the crispy crust. You would get that if you baked the frozen kind. With the mac and cheese in a box that you buy today, you do not even get that guilty pleasure. It's all boiled or microwaved. If you have a few extra minutes you will get much better results by finding six or seven ingredients you likely have in your pantry. Besides the baking part, it only takes a minute or two longer to prepare over the stuff you get in the box. Read on to get the recipe.
