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Bowtie Pasta with Summer Squash and Tomatoes

[squash pasta in bowl photo]

13 Miles, Lots of Sweating, No Water Ok, I'm back from the run.  13 miles in an hour and 50 minutes, about an 8:27 pace.  This is a good bit slower than the 7:45 pace I had hoped for, but I don't feel too badly about it because I recently ran the half marathon at…

How I Ate Store-Bought Food and Lived to Tell the Tale

[Grilled romaine photo]

Hope you're enjoying the new Photos page.  A rare glimpse into the life of the reclusive NMA! Well, after two consecutive days of gnocchi-making (I had to make an extra batch to bribe Pete), I was pretty tired of cooking.  So I haven't made anything much over the past few days, and usually that's a…

Mustardy Portobello Mushroom Pasta

[Portobello pasta photo]

I know– a lot of people are afraid of mustardy anything.  I can understand how you might not like straight-up mustard, but once it's whisked with white wine and boiled, it forms a nice sauce to coat the pasta and really doesn't taste like mustard! Before I get to the recipe though, I am happy…

Fire Roasted Tomato Pasta with Chickpeas and Arugula

[Pasta photo 1]

I'm back, healthy foodies, with the promised roasted tomato pasta recipe! Over the weekend I found a fun recipe in a magazine, then Erin saw a different one on TV, and we decided to combine the two to form one super-recipe. We Americans have grown so accustomed to the pasta-with-grilled-chicken (or some other meat) dish…

Pasta with Roasted Cauliflower and Arugula

[Erin photo]

Here's today's recipe, again from Fine Cooking.  And it's by Pamela Anderson, so it's got that going for it.  You'll notice that the recipe uses prosciutto, which is really good if you're into that sort of thing, but of course we made it without.  The other deviations we made:  substituting a canola/olive oil blend for…