Tag: pasta

  • Doppio Zero Pizza – Another Great Dinner

    Doppio Zero Pizza – Another Great Dinner

    A friend and I visited Doppio Zero Pizza last night. The restaurant was absolutely packed, and even though we did not have a table reserved, they made room for us at the bar.

  • Discover the Charm of Coquitlam’s Doppio Zero Pizza

    Discover the Charm of Coquitlam’s Doppio Zero Pizza

    Doppio Zero Pizza is a culinary gem that promises a delightful dining experience for lovers of good quality, authentic Italian cuisine.

  • Linguine Aglio e Olio

    Linguine Aglio e Olio

    I have recently discovered the simplest-to-make pasta – Aglio e Olio.

  • Linguine Carbonara; Dad in the Burbs Style

    The other day I got a bee in my bonnet that I wanted to cook up some linguine carbonara. So I did it – Dad in the Burbs style which means I used a few “hacks” and whatever I had in my fridge to make it happen. Fresh noodles, grated cheese, and sour cream. We…

  • Boston Pizza for Lunch 

    I went for a lovely lunch at the Metrotown location of Boston  Pizza today with my mother and my sister. I had a plate of fettuccine noodles with a wonderfully complex Mediterranean pasta sauce. The sauce was loaded with grilled red peppers, red onions, spinach, and artichoke hearts, feta cheese, and more. Quite a complex…

  • My Return to Trattoria Burnaby

    Friday afternoon I went for an early dinner to Trattoria Burnaby. I had recently been to Trattoria Burnaby for a business meeting but I wanted to go with some family to sample a wider variety of items from the menu. I don’t often mention restaurant servers (some of the hardest working people in the restaurant…

  • Glowbal Group’s Trattoria in Burnaby 

    During the spring break I attended a Meetup at the Glowbal Group’s Trattoria in Burnaby on the corner of Kingsway and Willingdon.  As I often do, I get right to the bottomline – overall, I found enough I liked about Trattoria to make me want to return to sample more of the menu items. That…

  • Another One Pot Wonder

    Tonight I got home later than usual, the kids were wild with hunger and there was nothing healthy to eat in the fridge. So, time for my one pot wonder quick meal.     This was so easy!  I cut up two small onions and dropped them into my Dutch oven pot and let them get…

  • My One Pot Wonder Pasta Dinner 

    It was my night to make dinner and while I love cooking, I hate all the kitchen mess that is left after cooking.  So what is better than a one pot wonder pasta dinner!    One pot! I used our Paderno Dutch oven for the entire meal. I began by adding a couple tablespoons of EVOO…

  • The Catelli Giveaway Winner is…

    The winning number for the Catelli Healthy Harvest Ancient Grains pasta giveaway is 320!!! I will look through the entries to see who the first person to enter 320 was and then I will send them a quick email. Congrats to our winner!! After carefully looking over the entries, the winner is Angela with her…