Weeknight Marinara: How To Make Store-Bought Sauce Taste Like Homemade

If you could smell what I smell right now, you would swear I had spent hours in the kitchen chopping, dicing, mincing, and stirring my way to the awesome sauce you see above.  If you could taste what is in this picture, you just might start searching my house for the Italian…

Lemon & Garlic Shrimp Linguini

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that I only post recipes that I make regularly; recipes that have made an appearance on my table several times and will continue to do so long after these words are archived.  I have actually been making this dish for years…

Creamy Tomato Soup

So.  If you are a regular reader of Brittany’s Pantry, you know that I am not the biggest fan of soup.  My husband and kids?  Yes.  Me?  No.  Unless it is ice cream, I would rather eat meals that require a fork.  However, if you know that about me, you also know…

Roasted Tomato Pasta & The day my freezer ate my tomatoes…

Who has two thumbs and is super excited about today’s post????  THIS gal! (Read the following really fast but monotone and with very little inflection in your voice.  That is how I hear these next words in my head as I type…) Disclaimer:  I was in Barnes & Noble today-don’t you just love that place?- and…

Summer Salmon

Greetings! I am in the middle of vacation but I definitely couldn’t wait to share this with you.  I promised you a new salmon recipe and here it is!  Granted, it is not the prettiest dish I ever made but what it lacks in looks it more than makes up for in…

Tilapia W/Citrus Sauce: A Favorite Meal

If you had asked me what my favorite food/meal was, oh say…ten or eleven years ago, I can guarantee you that meat would have been at the top of the list.  In particular, beef.  I learned at an early age that a good steak is hard to top and for the most…

Pesto & Filling The Freezer

When posting recipes for you, I try to mention if that particular dish is good as leftovers, freezes well, can be made ahead, or doubles easily.  These are tips that I always look for and kind of take a mental note about when I am looking through recipes.  This information makes my…

Baked Pasta W/Summer Veggies

I completely underestimated this dish.  I’ll explain. I have mentioned before that I usually keep a running list of menus to make for dinner during that week.  I glance through my freezer and sort of mentally pair things with what I have coming out of my garden in the next few days and…

Zucchini & Corn W/Basil

Sometimes you just know when a recipe is going to be successful.  Maybe the title tips you off.  For example, anything with ‘honey’ as a main ingredient has got to be worth trying, right?  Perhaps a picture is enough to be sure of a successful dish.  At one time or another haven’t we all…

How To: Grill Pizza & An Anniversary

Its here!  Its finally here!  We have arrived at the 1 year anniversary of this blog!  Can you believe it?  Thank you to everyone for stopping by and I hope that you will continue to do so in the future! You may have noticed that Brittany’s Pantry is now on facebook!  Click…

Pasta Scuie Scuie: A Double Take

Yes, this dish may look a bit familiar.  Can you see the similarities between these two pictures? With the exception of the type of pasta I used, the ingredients are nearly identical.  The top dish is Pasta Scuie Scuie (pronounced ‘shway shway’ and meaning ‘quick quick’ in Italian) and the bottom dish is Margarita…

Margarita Pasta Salad: An Old Standby

Don’t you just love those recipes that you make over and over and they never fail you?  No matter how many times you make it, it always turns out and everybody always loves it.  For my neighbor, its chocolate chip cookies.  She makes one of the best I have ever had and is…

Turkey Meatballs (Mmm…Italian)

Yesterday, we surprised our best friends with an evening out while we babysat their kids.  And what kids don’t like spaghetti and meatballs?!  The sauce was a quick concoction of generic jarred sauces I had in the pantry, doctored up with fresh herbs, fresh garlic, and always a pinch of sugar.  Store…