If you’ve been following along True Family Food for a while, you know we’ve done Pizza, Movie, and Ice Cream Fridays for years now. It serves many purposes. By Friday, I am usually tired of being in the kitchen, and we often order take out pizza or do a frozen pizza. It also assures my…
Tag: Dinner
Muffin Tin Popovers
I am not a big single use kitchen tool owner. I’d rather things take 30 seconds longer than have to store an extra bulky item. Don’t even get me started on avocado knives. I am here to tell you you don’t need a popover pan to make delicious popovers. Do they come out a little…
Fresh Tomato Pasta Sauce
If you’re like me, about March you’re ready for some summer produce! Here is the perfect tomato sauce for the height of tomato season (late summer) when tomatoes are cheap, flavorful, and plentiful. Make sure a grown up does the grating of the tomato, unless you have a rotary grater or food mill like we…
Sheet Pan Fajitas
Having just come back from spring break in Texas visiting family, I still have Tex-Mex on the brain. I did my best to satiate the craving while there. My mom took us straight from the airport to our favorite Tex-Mex spot, where I ordered a cheese enchilada, crunchy chicken taco, queso, and refried beans. All…
Pasta Primavera
Spring is just hinting at itself here in Colorado. On my walks around the neighborhood I spy crocuses and snow drops. There is something entirely magical about snow drop flowers popping up when there is still snow on the ground. They are the harbingers of spring. This is something I only started to appreciate once…
Lemon Chicken and Rice
This was one of the first truly one pot meals that I fell in love with. It didn’t have any extra sneaky dishes. It packed a lot of flavor. I could make it in under 30 minutes if I really focused. Most importantly, my whole family loves it. The combination of brothy rice and lemony…
Brilliant Blue Pasta with Cream Sauce
Every time I test this pasta, I go to take a taste, and end up eating the entire bowl right there over the counter. It is shockingly good. There is something about super fresh, hand made pasta dough covered in incredibly rich cream sauce that is irresistible to me. If you have a pasta attachment…
Gorgonzola Soufflé
This blue cheese soufflé brought my eight year old around to blue cheese. I made a BIG deal about how fancy soufflés are and how wildly they rise in the oven. We made an activity of checking on it through the oven window every 5 minutes or so while it was baking. It was an…
Ground Beef Taco Meat
I feel like I have finally cracked a code that has plagued me for years. I grew up eating ground beef that was flavored simply with salt, pepper, and chopped onion, which was delicious and it’s own special thing. However, I always loved when I would stay at friends’ houses and their ground ups would…
Chimichurri Green Sauce
I still remember the first time I had this sauce. My husband and I had just moved to Houston from New Orleans. We didn’t know many people yet, and my husband’s friend’s mom invited us all over for dinner. She made an entire beef tenderloin! I had never seen one before and didn’t know what…
Pink Pasta! Handmade Cavatelli with Roasted Beets and Goat Cheese
This recipe takes the classic combo of roasted beets and goat cheese up a notch by coating our goat cheese in olive oil and bread crumbs and crisping it up in the oven. The cavatelli is similar to making gnocchi and couldn’t be easier. It’s a bit of a project, so I recommend it for…
Peanut Noodle Stir Up
I did not grow up eating ramen for a variety of reasons. My brother has a myriad of food allergies, and that prompted my mom to make most things from scratch and wasn’t able to use any seasoning packets. Things like taco seasoning and gravy packets still befuddle me. Imagine, if you will, trying Cup…
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