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Chicken Caprese Pasta Bake

May 11, 2021

If you love the flavors of Caprese salad, you’ll love this Caprese inspired pasta! This Chicken Caprese Pasta Bake is made with tomatoes, basil, mozzarella, chicken thighs and baked until it’s hot and bubbly! This post may contain affiliate links.  Making a purchase through one of these links helps support this blog. The spring season usually means the return of lighter dishes like salads and grilled entrees.  But that doesn’t mean you have to ditch the pasta!  Instead of making…

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How to Make Crushed Tomatoes

August 20, 2013
Jar of fresh garden crushed tomatoes with spoon in jar. Jar sits on wooden board with fresh basil and tomatoes.

Have an overabundance of garden tomatoes? It only takes a few easy steps to make fresh homemade crushed tomatoes with your garden haul! This post may contain affiliate links.  Making a purchase through one of these links helps support this blog. One of our large tomato plants is starting to slow down for the season.  There are bunches of green tomatoes on each branch, but they’re taking longer to mature.  Our other tomato plant is still producing mature fruit on…

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Frank Sinatra Inspired Fresh Tomato Sauce

April 16, 2011
fresh tomato sauce

This Frank Sinatra inspired fresh tomato sauce is made with whole peeled tomatoes, Italian herbs and seasonings, onion, and garlic infused olive oil! This post may contain affiliate links.  Making a purchase through one of these links helps support this blog. It all started with a conversation about mobsters with a friend, which somehow turned into inspiration for a Frank Sinatra inspired tomato sauce.  I did some research on this famous Hoboken, New Jersey native and I found out that…

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