Spring is here and so is April, Easter breaks around the corner. With kids being at home its a great time to cook up some delicious , healthy and quick pasta recipes for the whole family. I love cooking pasta because it is a great way to bring smile around on full tummies and its a great way to combine lots of greens with meat or leave out the meat totally and get a very healthy meal on the table.Its also a thrifty meal idea to use up things from your larder and fridge that would otherwise face sure death.Pasta comes to the rescue always!
This is the first ever food challenge and linky that I shall be hosting so am nervous and hopeful that everyone participates with great enthusiasm 🙂 Thanks to Jacqueline who blogs at Tinned Tomatoes for letting me host this lovely food challenge for April’14.
The theme for this months entry is – OLIVE OIL . I have just infused a bottle of olive oil with crushed garlic ,chilli flakes and fresh italian herbs! Am very excited to create something tasty with this oil and use some of large packet of Pappardelle Pasta I purchased yesterday!
Sounds exciting? Ready to join in the challenge?
The rules ARE:
PASTA PLEASE – Food Blog Challenge – April 2014
- Link to Sliceoffme and Tinned Tomatoes.
- Use the Pasta Please logo in your post.
- If you use twitter, tweet your post with @tinnedtoms and @manjirichitnis using the hashtag #PastaPlease and we will re-tweet it to our followers.
- Current theme is Olive Oil.
- Vegetarian dishes and with any dishes using meat,sea food,pork,beef,chicken,dry fish are allowed (any non-vegetarian
dish). - One entry per entrant.
- Recipes must be added to the linky by 28 April 2014.
Please email me your post with one image on fruitsnveg@yahoo.com.(Why? because the Linky has a GREMLIN inside and is not working! Thankfully its the last day to link up -phew!)
Entries So far :
- Tagliatelle with Chorizo,Garlic and Sundried Tomatoes by Corina of searchingforspice blog.
- Veggie Packed Tomato and Mascarpone Pasta by KneadWhine blog.
- Armoniche Mushrooms by Spicy Quiry Serendipitous Blog.
- Fusilli with Baked Eggplant and Marinara Sauce by Ridhi of Drizzling Delicious Blog.
- Easy Entertaining :Stuffed Pasta Shells by Katie of Feeding Boys Blog.
- Chicken Riggies: A Utica,New York Pasta Speciality by Rachel at The Crispy Cook Blog.
- Lemony Pasta with Broccoli and Chickpeas by Lisa of Lisa’s Kitchen – Food and Spice Blog.
- Red Peppers in Pasta Bake, Stuffed and in Soup by Johanna of Green Gourmet Giraffe Blog.
- Penne Pasta with Tomato and Basil Sauce by Tina of The Spicy Pear blog.
- Extremely Delicious Vegetable Lasagne by Chris of Cooking around the world blog.
- Rocket and Mozzarella Faralle Salad by Jaqueline Meldrum of Tinned Tomatoes blog and creator of the #pastaplease challenge!
- Aubergine Pasta Bake by Vanessa of Jibber Jabber UK blog.
- Farfalle with Sicilian Pesto by Torta di Rose.
- Gnocchi with Asparagus,Sage & Prosciutto by Louisa Foti of Eat your Veg blog.
- Macaroni,Beans and Asparagus Sauce by Maria and Andrea of Oil and Life blog.
- Spicy Chorizo Pasta with loads of veggie goodness! by me 🙂
Enjoy your first bloggie challenge, they’re lots of fun and a great way to come across new blogs too! Shall try and join in, as we seem to use olive oil by the bucket load it shouldn’t be a problem.
Thanks Lou cant wait to see what you and ur kiddos cook up 🙂
Happy Hosting Manjiri. xxx
Thanks Nayna xxx
I think I almost always use olive oil when cooking a pasta dish so I’ll do my best to join in. You should get lots of lovely varied dishes.
Thanks Corina , I do hope that people send in their entries , its lovely to see how many beautiful pasta dishes one can create!
Thanks for hosting. I’ve added it to The Food Blog Diary for you I look forward to seeing the entries.
Thanks for letting me host Jaq!Looking forward to some great entries!
🙂 I’m so glad that this is one I can get on board with this month! Last month I just didn’t quite get there in time.
Thanks for entering the Pasta Please Challenge and the mascarpone sauce looks so yummy! Congratulations and thanks for sharing a recipe suitable for pregnant women 🙂
Hi Manjiri, My pasta recipe doesn’t appear on your “Entries So Far’ summary page. Just checking I entered the details correctly? Thanks
Hey Tina, has just added your link, need to do that manually as WP does not allow the linky’s to show up! That’s why I am going to move my blog to a self-hosted one soon, and change my blog’s name to TRAVELSFORTASTE! 🙂
Ok thanks. Love the new name. Excited to see your revamped site.
yay! am so excited cant wait!
you know what i absolutely love pasta and have never made it by scratch as of yet but my husband did a couple of years ago and wow t was delichious x
thats lovely Lisa,if you want to link up today is the last day, email me your entry at fruitsnveg@yahoo.com
This is such a Great idea, who doesn’t love pasta 🙂
You betcha Gemma!
Thanks for sharing this challenge. I love pasta and have been looking make our weekly pasta dinner a bit more exciting. I hope you enjoy your Olive Oil part of the challenge 🙂
Thanks Fiona! I love pasta too !
I’m hoping to join in, I have something in mind. Well done on hosting your first challenge.
Thanks Julie! Today is the last day to link up, please email me your entry at fruitsnveg@yahoo.com .Cheers!
Thanks for reminding me, I’ll try.
HI Manjiri, olive oil (extra virgin)is essential in the italian pasta recipes!!! Thank you so much for hosting! Cheers
lucia
Thanks for linking up Lucia! Yes I love olive oil too and LOVEEEEUHHH Italian food too!:)
Thanks for linking up Tina!