Hallmark!
Today is National Fettuccine Alfredo Day which celebrates a delicious pasta dish made with fettuccine that is tossed with butter, cream and melted Parmesan cheese.
The reason there are so many different pasta shapes and textures because each holds a sauce in a different way. For example wide noodles like Fettuccine are best for thick cream sauces like white short hollow shapes like Rotini or Penne work bes with tomato based sauces.
A chef named Alfredo di Lelio served the first plate of Fettuccine Alfredo in 1914. His wife had just given birth to their first son and hadn’t regained her appetite. He invented the dish to entice her into eating and it worked. Soon after he started serving it in his restaurant in Rome.
This dish is good served on its own, or with vegetables, chicken, and seafood on top.
To celebrate today cook this delicious pasta dish serve for dinner. Enjoy!
If you cannot see the bright side, polish the dull side
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, pizza, pastry.
Sara Peretsky
I do love pasta of all kinds and enjoy it more now since I discovered the protein pasta made by Barilla, a good friend told me about it and I’ve been using it ever since. It doesn’t have the carbs in it that regular pasta does.
I am cooking today, but I’m fixing:
Mom’s Chili
Makes 8 servings
1 Tbsp. canola oil
3 cups finely chopped onions
2 cups chopped green bell peppers
1 clove garlic, minced
2 lbs. lean ground beef
1 cup water
1 14 oz can diced tomatoes
1, 6 0z. can tomato paste
2 bay leaves
1/4 cup chili powder
1 tsp. ground cumin
1 tsp. red wine vinegar
3/4 tsp salt
Ground pepper to taste
pinch of cayenne pepper
1, 15 oz. can kidney beans drained, rinsed
Heat oil in a pot over medium high heat. Add onions, peppers and garlic. Cook, stirring fredquently, until tender. Add beef and cook breaking it up with a spoon until no longer pink. Add water, tomatoes and thier juice, tomato paste, bay leaves, chile powder, cumin, vinegar, pepper and cayenne. Stir to combine well. Cover and simmer over low heat for 1 hour.
Stir in beans, cook uncovered 30 minutes more. Remove bay leaves before serving.
I don’t think I’ll add any cayenne pepper to mine, I like it on the mild side. And instead of Diced tomatoes and Tomato paste, I’ll be using crushed tomatoes in mine. I love chili and will use the leftovers for Chili Dogs later on.
Today I have a hair cut in the afternoon, so I’ll be doing my grocery shopping on the way home.
I made a new menu for next week to do my shopping from
Monday- Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup with Rotisserie Chicken
Wednesday - Creamy Fettuccine with Brussels Sprouts and Mushrooms
Friday - Air Fryer Fish and Chips
Weekend- Skillet Lemon Chicken and Potatoes with Kale
It’s to be another beautiful sunny day here and our temps keep warming up. We’re to get into the 50’s today. Although, It was a frosty morning in the 20’s. Thankfully it is warming up for a couple of days.
We had a really good visit with my granddaughter and her mom yesterday. She was sitting up in a chair when we got there and doing better than she had been for awhile. It warmed my heart to see her doing so well. This was her first time out of bed since she’d been there.
It was a truly beautiful day to go on a road trip.
I hope you all have a WONDERFUL Wednesday !
3 comments:
This is an easy to make pasta dish! Enjoy some today !
I'm so glad you discovered your grand-love doing well! Hospitals are so necessary, but man, they're not 'user friendly' (lol).
I knew none of this about the different pastas and sauces. Tom enjoys the traditional red sauces, but I prefer Alfredo. If he's feeling up to it, I'm going to suggest we visit Olive Garden this afternoon -- the sun's shining and thankfully, there's little standing water remaining.
Can't say Fettuccine Alfredo is my favorite at all. I have eaten so much pasta - because my daughter loves it - that I am even tired of pasta. Which we are going to have tonight for dinner.
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