Zucchini Ribbon and Caper Pasta
Serve this impressive pasta, made with pantry staples and a few garden-fresh zucchini, as a light main course, or offer up smaller portions for an easy appetizer.
Serve this impressive pasta, made with pantry staples and a few garden-fresh zucchini, as a light main course, or offer up smaller portions for an easy appetizer.
As a lover of pumpkin and pasta it seemed like a natural fit. I love the flavour that roasting bring out in many ingredients. It's the simplicity of this dish that makes it extraordinary. I usually serve it with a spinach, mushroom, and red onion salad.
A simple mix of olive oil, garlic, hot pepper flakes and oregano makes for a light, zesty - and speedy -springtime pasta sauce. Make sure to snap off and discard the woody ends of the asparagus stalks.
Based on the Italian pasta carbonara, this dish uses ham instead of bacon, reducing the fat in this traditionally rich dish to about 10 g per serving. The spinach adds vitamin A, calcium, folate, potassium and fibre.
Thin slices of eggplant form the covering for this robust baked pasta from our new book, Canadian Living Cooks (Random House, 2003), which features a collection of favourite recipes from our show on Food Network Canada.
Seasonal sweet cherry tomatoes add the perfect dose of freshness to this simple lemony pasta.
If you don't have any bucatini pasta, spaghetti makes a fine substitute. Serve topped with shaved Parmesan cheese.
This fresh meal packs all the flavour of Greek salad into a hearty pasta. Be sure to keep some of the cooking water before you drain the spaghetti—the starchy liquid helps create a luscious sauce when you stir it into the pasta at the end.
This pasta is packed with nutrients: potassium from the spinach and calcium from the evaporated milk, which has 80 per cent more calcium than regular milk. Serve with a crisp green salad.
For a head start on this terrific chunky sauce with pasta cooked right in, freeze the meat already sliced into strips. Sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese to serve.
