Got Pasta ? Get Sauce

 What do you do with left voer pasta ? Create a quick and tasty sauce. This revitalizes any kind of leftover with fresh ingredients.It makes for a fast yet delcious hot dinner.

Tis is how I flt .I boiled plain fettucine the other night and had it with just Lidl's It' tastes LIke Butter on top. This was ok, a really simple meal for a busy Saturday. I had almost too much pasta left over. What to do? Bring out the fresh veggies, olive oil and plant butter and create a delicious sauce.

There's nothing like combining spinach with sliced baby bellas and sauteing it in the oil- plant butter mix. I just added a good amount of garlic powder (you can used fresh minced garlic in stead) and a good amount of salt and pepper.

I microwaved the pasta with more of It Tastes Like Butter for five minutes and comnined the two. Thanks to a combo of fresh and leftover I had a hot flavorful dinner. You can do the same with any veggie. Try a burst tomato sauce with cherry or grape tomatoes. A kale and garlic sauce is another easy make and goes well with any kind fo pasta from spaghetti to penne. Have leftover chicken? Mix it with some peas , heavy cream garlic and milk for an Alfredo sauce.

Plain leftover pasta is a good canvas for a quick , fresh sauce.create the spinach and mushroom one or with  any vegtables of your choosing. The nd result is a tasty hot diinner makes in minutes.

Baby Bellas Big Taste

 If you like portabellas, then you'll love the smaller version - baby bellas. Gr oceries sell them already slicedand they are great  lirr le morsels full of bug flavor

I bought these gems at my local Acme. They were too good to resist and my home chef's mind was full of possibilities. I decided to air fry them .After washing them they were tossed in olive oil and McCormick's Perfect Pinch 

I've sprinkled this blend of different herbs and spices  on popcorn (!) and it was tasty. Why not add it to the baby bellas? It was the perfect marriage.Ir's mostly garlic but there's also rosemary and ground orange peel in it along with paprika and celery seed. I definitely plan on using it for the bigger portabellas.

It was then setting the air fryer at 400 degrees Farenheit for five minutes, then toss the mushrooms so they're evenly cooked. Five more minutes at a lesser heat of 380 degrees Farenheit.

They came our perfect and delicious!!!!!

   They tasted like garlic steak and I plan on making them into a sandwich with garlic bread the next time. They were moist and a little crisp around the edges. I served them with Brussels sprouts drenched in butter and sprinkled in vegan Parmesan cheese. You can also try them with fries or on a bed of flavored rice. They are also a great meat sub in for Sunday dinner.

Baby bellas may be cute but they are grown up in flavor.Try them as a vegan alternative to steak. They are incredibly flavorful to eat with anything from veggies to potatoes to rice.

A Summer Classic Winterized

 Spinach salad is always a welcome lunch or dinner come summer.Yet it's winter and what do you do? Winterize it. I also gave this an Italian twist with garlic, serving it on polenta rounds.

It's sauteing about sixteen ounces of already chopped baby bellas and sixteen ounces of spinach   along with two cloves of chopped  garlic and olive oil.

I also added one large chopped beefsteak tomato. 

I felt I needed more flavor so I added some I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and a cube of Not Chick'n bouillon.

It cooked  up nicely.

As this was cooking, I sliced the polenta into rounds and fried them on the grill.

I used I Can't Believe It's Not Butter for a more buttery flavor which I feel goes with polenta.

The taste was more intense than a simple salad. It was a delicious blend of veggies that worked well with the polenta. You could add pancetta to copy the bacon in the original salad if you want or chicken strips, soy or the real thing.

Nothing beats a spinach salad . Yet it's winter. Time to winterize it with  heating up the ingredients and creating a hot tasty saute to warm you up.