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When I\u2019m feeling like I\u2019ve run out of ideas for dinner, it\u2019s fun to revisit classic cookbooks for inspiration. I\u2019ll spend a few minutes browsing my cookbook shelf, hoping to land on something that not only sounds good to me, but that my kids will get excited about too.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
For one recent dinner, Ina Garten came to the rescue with her Broccoli & Bow Ties. It is as much a broccoli dish as a pasta dish, so it makes sense that the vegetable gets top billing in the recipe title. It calls for eight cups of florets, which for me was the yield from three large crowns of broccoli. Combined with a half pound of pasta, this makes for a light main\u2014or a starchy vegetable side.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Simply Recipes \/ Coco Morante<\/p>\n <\/span> <\/p>\n Not counting the time it takes for a large pot of water to come to a boil, you\u2019ll only spend about 15 minutes in the kitchen throwing this dish together. It is a slight pet peeve of mine when recipes don\u2019t count parts of the process like water boiling, though. I recommend using that time to get your florets prepped, zest and juice your lemon, chop the garlic, and toast your pine nuts.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Once the water comes to a boil, everything happens very quickly. First, you give the florets a quick cook in salted water before you transfer them to a large bowl. Next, you boil the pasta in that same water and simultaneously throw together a quick skillet sauce of olive oil, butter, garlic, and lemon. When the pasta\u2019s done cooking, you add it to the bowl with the blanched broccoli, pour in the sauce, toss everything together, and sprinkle the pine nuts on top.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Easy, right? I like this style of cooking so much. There\u2019s a breeziness to the way you zip through all of the prep steps, and the end result is very good, especially for quick weeknight cooking. The fresh lemon and broccoli offset the rich butter and pine nuts, and the pasta acts as a base for everything.\n<\/p>\n Simply Recipes \/ Coco Morante<\/p>\n <\/span> <\/p>\n This dish went over well in my house, especially when my girls got to add their own \u201csprinkle cheese\u201d\u2014a.k.a. grated Parmesan\u2014at the table. They already love pasta and broccoli, so it wasn\u2019t much of a stretch to assume they\u2019d be happy with the meal. We ate it alongside some chicken drumsticks that I started in the air fryer at the same time the pasta water went on the stove to boil.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Ina\u2019s just so great, isn\u2019t she? These sorts of recipes remind me why she\u2019s been such a beloved fixture since the early 2000s, when she first welcomed us into her Hamptons home kitchen. This recipe goes back to those beginning days of her career. It\u2019s featured in her 2002 cookbook Barefoot Contessa Family Style<\/em> and in a 2003 episode of \u201cBarefoot Contessa.\u201d\n<\/p>\n On the show, she cooks a celebratory meal for some friends and their two young daughters as part of a kids\u2019 party-themed episode. I love the idea of serving this as part of a sweet little birthday dinner at home.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n #15Minute #Ina #Garten #Pasta #Family #Loves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I\u2019m feeling like I\u2019ve run out of ideas for dinner, it\u2019s fun to revisit classic cookbooks for inspiration. I\u2019ll spend a few minutes browsing my cookbook shelf, hoping to land on something that not only sounds good to me, but that my kids will get excited about too.\u00a0 For one recent dinner, Ina Garten […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[798,339,260,259,749,203],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinner","tag-15minute","tag-family","tag-garten","tag-ina","tag-loves","tag-pasta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n How To Make Ina Garten\u2019s Broccoli & Bowties <\/span> <\/h2>\n
\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Why My Whole Family Loves Ina Garten\u2019s Broccoli & Bowties <\/span> <\/h2>\n