Herself's Recipes

This is a recipe I reverse engineered from a local restaurant I frequent. It’s my favorite dish there.

1 pound penne pasta ( or other noodle type pasta )
1 jar Alfredo sauce
1 1/3 cups of crumbled blue cheese
2 cups grilled vegetables

The restaurant dices vegetables and grills them. They use; asparagus, mushrooms, red onion, zucchini, and carrots. I usually also use red peppers.

They also offer this dish with grilled shrimp or chicken in addition to the vegetables.

Cook the pasta
Dice and grill your vegetables and meat if you using it

Drain the pasta and toss with the Alfredo sauce. Divide among 4 plates.
Top each plate with 1/2 cup of grilled vegetables ( and meat if using )
Then top with 1/3 crumbled blue cheese per plate
Serve

The story says that Alfredo sauce became popular with American tourists in Italy not long after 1900. In 1927 Pickford and Fairbanks, Actors, fell in love with the dish while in Italy and brought home the recipe. In the 1980s it became far more popular and it is easy to find recipes for Alfredo sauce now, or to buy good quality Alfredo in many grocers.

This is a good way to perk up some of the more bland winter vegetables.

1 teaspoon oil
1/2 cup diced onion
2.5 teaspoons curry
1/4 cup milk
1/4 cup sour cream
3 small tomatoes, quartered
1 cup broccoli diced
1 cup cauliflower, diced

put the oil, onion and curry into a skillet and fry until the onions are clear
add the broccoli and cauliflower and cook until tender
add remaining ingredients and simmer until the liquid is reduced by half

Broccoli came from southern Italy, as did cauliflower. Both are high in cancer fighting substances, and vitamins A and C.

“Cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college education.” Mark Twain claimed, and in China there are scrolls from 1000 BCE that describe cauliflower as a cure for baldness in men.