Penne Recipes

This penne pasta salad is a healthier take on a classic cookout side dish.

Penne Pasta Salad

This is a quick and super simple recipe, adapted from one by Giada De Laurentiis

This is a quick and easy pasta recipe. I've found this to be especially good for Sunday cooking that you can live off of for the duration of your week.

This healthy one dish meals takes less than 45 minutes to prepare. With the use of Dreamfields pasta, it's low carb as well as low fat and delicious!!

A healthy and easy version of a Northern Italy Classic

A homemade and healthier version of the Rattlesnake Pasta dish from Pizzaria UNO.

A tasty pasta recipe thrown together

We had a bumper crop of grape tomatoes this year so I was searching for some recipes to use them up. Found the base of this recipe on COOKS.com & tweaked it to our tastes.
The result is a light, healthy summer dinner.
Enjoy!

Inspired and hungry, this dish was born. It is deeply satisfying and rich, a blend of chewy penne, salty, crisped pancetta, and sweet roasted brussels sprouts and cauliflower. Roasting the vegetables brings about such an intense, caramelized flavor. Adding a few glugs of cream at the end mediates the flavors and lays upon each ingredient like a sort of silk robe. And once I sprinkled a handful of crunchy, toasted walnuts over the pan, I was certain I wouldn't live to write about it.

This is a low sodium, low fat, high protein entree. Best served with salad greens. The directions include my own taco mix which reduces the amount of sodium in the recipe. If you are crunched for time or don't have a spice rack, just buy packaged taco mix. I don't like things hot, so IF YOU LIKE IT HOT, add your favorite reduced sodium SALSA!!

Don't be scared off by the calorie count, this is a large portion!
Improvise with what's in your fridge/pantry. Maybe more meat (shrimp or turkey kielbasa?), artichokes, kalamata olives or even capers would've been yummy. But this turned out scrumptious as is. Enjoy!

Giada DeLaurente makes this Pene Pasta with Creamy spinach sauce

Recipe taken from The Gourmet Cookbook

This recipe comes from Rachael Ray's website

Loaded with omega-3's from tuna, this recipe happened to me by accident. Salsa with tuna and whole wheat noodles may sound gross, but it is anything but.

Pic shows this recipe and Cucumber, Mango & Pepper Salad.

Toss with whole wheat pasta for a delicious, and healthy dinner! For those who eat meat, add grilled chicken.

"A simple, delicious dinner using up the glut of wintered-over broccoli from my parents' garden. You may use sausage or veggie sausage instead of bacon, substituting olive oil for the bacon fat."

Use your own favorite mix of veggies, and serve alone or topped with additional protein, as I do here.

Using items from the frig and pantry shelf make this tasty dish for yourself and 6 guests or serve what you need and freeze the rest.

Recipe adapted from Better Homes & Gardens Fast Food December 2006 Italian Sausage Manicotti Recipe P53.
Using lower fat substitutions for meat and cheeses. Increasing the amount of veggies. Not exactly low sodium.

Healthy Dinner Recipes Under 500 Calories

A quick casserole that is great for those busy weeknights. Also makes a unique potluck dish.

This can be made with or without the turkey sausage. I think the combination of the turkey sausage and the squash is amazing! The original recipe I got the inspiration from this did not have sausage, but had mushrooms instead. Just another idea!