• Dinner,  Lunch

    Creamy Artichoke Pasta

    This is a staple recipe in my household, such an easy recipe that is hearty, creamy, and so delicious! Also ready under 30 minutes is always a bonus. Almost everything here is a pantry staple so a perfect recipe during this quarantine time! A trick I use for creamy pastas is to always add in 1 tsp of lemon juice, it adds a nice touch of acidity and helps balance out the creaminess. Delicious! Author: Cookingwithchow Course: Dinner Servings: 4 Prep Time: 5 Cook Time: 25 Total Time: 30 INGREDIENTS 250g of Bow-Tie Pasta (1/2 bag of pasta) 1 tsp olive oil 1 tsp salt 5 strips maple smoked bacon…

  • Dinner,  Lunch

    Simple Tomato Pasta Sauce

    Last summer I travelled to Italy with one of my closest friends, we were in Florence at the time staying in an AirBnB. One night, we decided that for dinner we were going to make pasta. We went to the grocery store and grabbed all of the necessary ingredients for the dish, and then went home and started to prepare it. About ten minutes into the preparation, this elderly Italian man came into the kitchen and actually told us that we were preparing it all wrong! It turns out that he was actually the owner of the house and started to show us how to cook authentic Italian tomato pasta sauce.…