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Chicken Parmesan

Chicken Parmesan should be a goto recipe for any home cook.  It is simple to make, just about everyone I’ve ever met loves it, and of course it tastes great.  It also adds another way to prepare the ubiquitous boneness skinless chicken breast, that when plainly cooked, and be just plain boring.  In this recipe video, I show you how to sear off a couple chicken breasts,

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Penne with Zucchini and Red Bell Pepper

I’ve got a another simple pasta recipe to show you in this video.  Here, I combining Penne pasta, with a "sauce" made with zucchini,  red bell pepper, garlic and shallot.  This recipe is the ultimate in NoRecipeRequired, as the ingredients are so flexible you can swap anything in or out.  It’s really the techniques that make the dish great.  If you don’t like zucchini, use eggplant

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Gnocchi Bolognese

One of the nice (really very nice) things about a sauce like Bolognese, is that you can make a large batch and then freeze little containers with just enough for one night.  Then, without a ton of work, you can have spaghetti Bolognese, ravioli Bolognese, meat lasagna, eggplant parmesan…and you can also make gnocchi Bolognese, which is what I show you in this recipe video.  I love these little

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Cheesy Polenta

One of the more under-utilized sides dishes (at least in the starch category) is polenta.  Polenta is simply ground corn…and generally the same as Grits – although some will point out the corn may be ground to different sizes, and/or be from yellow as opposed to white corn.  When simmered in water, the hard bits of corn soften up, just like pasta, to form a porridge, that is great on its own, b

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Ravioli with Gorgonzola Sauce

I love ravioli.  The little tiny stuffed pastas, are a great contrast in texture, and the different fillings provide a wide variety of flavors.  I love to make my own, but I’m also excited about the wide range of high quality ravioli you can buy at the store.  It’s a huge time saver, with the extra time, you can invest a bit more into creating cool sauces, and garnishes for your ravioli.  In th

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Chicken Penne with Mushroom Cream Sauce

The other day, my wife simply said of this dish “…this one’s a winner”.  Despite growing up in a house that (to my memory at least) never saw a box of penne pasta, I’ve learned to love these short little tube shapes.  Like all pastas, there are a ton of different ways you can prepare penne, and in this recipe video, I make a mushroom cream sauce (similar to an alfredo sauce) to pai

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Fettucini Alfredo

My first fettucini alfredo memory is still clear in my mind.  I was a kid, probably still in the single digit years old, my mom, my Aunt & I went into the Italy themed restaurant at Epcot in Disney world.  As a kid, I was probably pissed I wasn’t back on Space Mountain, but all notion of disappointed disappeared after my Aunt’s order of Fettucini Alfredo arrived. 

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Meat Lasagna

One of the great “family” meals of all time is Lasagna.  As a kid, I loved lasagna night, and being able to dig into that baked pile of tomato-y, cheesy, & pasta, along a tasty slice of garlic bread was great.  Lasagna is pretty easy to make, and in this recipe video I show you how to make one step by step.  Now when I say make one…I mean it, how to make one.  This is one v

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Pumpkin Ravioli with Broccoli Rabe

As seasons change, so don’t the recipes I cook.  Using seasonal vegetables and flavors not only keeps us aligned with the goings-on around us, but it also enables us to use the best available produce and ingredients for that given time.  With Fall around the corner, I wanted to give you a pumpkin ravioli dish, that is absolutely awesome.  In this recipe video, I combine the ravioli, with some

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Ravioli Bolognese

Ravioli is a pretty common meal at my house.  There are a lot of good quality options at most grocery stores, and there are a ton of different ways, and sauces to pair with them.  In this recipe video, I show you how to make a Ravioli Bolognese.  Bolognese is a favorite of mine, cooked down for hours with ground meat, tomatoes, and some herbs/spices.  When having a meat sauce like this, I prefe

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