🍂 3 Quick & Flavorful Seasonal Pastas 🍝
🍂 3 Quick & Flavorful Seasonal Pastas 🍝
Celebrate fall with fast, affordable, and delicious pasta made from scratch in under 30 minutes. Mix-and-match sauces to keep your dinners exciting, easy, and healthy!
TL;DR: Discover quick, gluten and wheat-free pasta recipes perfect for the season! Featuring Cheesy Pumpkin & Sage Ravioli, Trofie with Pesto, and Pappardelle with Bolognese—all ready in under 30 minutes. Plus, exciting updates on organizing science-backed research for each ingredient, making it easier to eat healthier and fight disease.
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I’m excited to share a new set of super quick, mix-and-match pasta recipes that are gluten and wheat-free, allergy-friendly, and perfect for this season!
These versatile dishes are a fantastic addition to your cooking repertoire—especially as grocery prices, inflation, and even shrinkflation continue to rise / shrink-rise!
All pasta recipes are:
Ready in 30 minutes or less.
No difficult kneading and no resting or waiting time.
Designed to make your life and your meals easier, tastier, and more affordable
Minimum equipment required: a knife, a pot, a can or bottle, a spice grinder, and for one recipe—a single chopstick!
The pasta uses only 2 common ingredients and costs about $0.47 US / $0.63 CA to make!
All are using only healthy science-backed ingredients that help to fight disease.
"As someone who loves indulging in rich, comforting foods but also wants to eat healthily, these pasta recipes are a game-changer. The Cheesy Pumpkin & Sage Ravioli is as satisfying as anything you'd order at a restaurant, but I know it's nourishing my body, not harming it. Making fresh pasta is easier than I ever imagined, and the Alfredo sauce is so good you'll want to eat it by the spoonful! The best part? All the dishes take less than 30 minutes, and even after a long day, I feel energized and light—not weighed down like with traditional pasta dishes."
- Chef Rob (me)
Note: If you’ve never made pasta before, your first try may take 10-30 minutes longer. But don’t worry—you’ll get faster each time, and it’s totally worth it!
And Here’s what’s cooking:
🎃 Cheesy Pumpkin & Sage Ravioli with Alfredo
These ravioli are stuffed with a creamy, cheesy pumpkin and sage filling. Indulgent yet healthy, they’re the perfect to comfort and soothe on those wet and weary autumn evenings.
The Alfredo sauce is so rich, creamy, and satisfying that words don’t do it justice. You’ll have homemade ravioli in 20-30 minutes from scratch! Plus, you can stuff these ravioli with seasonal items, veggies, or the sauces from the other pasta dishes. Get creative, or see my suggestions on the recipe page!
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🌿 TrofiePasta with Pesto
Basil is nearing the climax of its season so now is a great time to get one last burst of summer. This recipe uses seasonal ingredients to allow the chewy and satisfying Trofie pasta to embrace the bright pesto flavors.
My 7-Minute Easy & Affordable Pesto (by hand; about 7 seconds if you have a blender) recipe is so good you’ll be eating it even cold out of the bowl!
Trofie also pairs perfectly with your favorite plant-based sauces like that cheese sauce you love.
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🍝 Pappardelle with Bolognese
This hearty and satisfying dish will transport you back to childhood, with flavors and smells reminiscent of long-simmering sauces—without having to wait hours!
The sauce takes under 30 minutes, and you can have fresh slurpable pappardelle noodles in just 10 minutes.
This pasta is perfect for heavier sauces like bolognese, and you can easily create other pasta types like fettuccine, linguini, tagliatelle, and others just by cutting the dough narrower, or even wider for fresh lasagna noodles.
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Exciting Updates on the Horizon!
I’m thrilled to share that I’m enhancing how the science-backed research for each recipe is organized!
I know that might sound a little dull, but soon you’ll be able to look up any ingredient to easily discover the latest medical research on how it combats various diseases—plus kitchen and culinary tips and hacks for picking, preparing, and using each ingredient. Everything from getting the stinky onion smell off your hands to making each ingredient more nutritious, bioavailable, and more.
If there’s a specific non-communicable disease (NCD) or dish you want to target, please hit reply to this email or use the button below to let me know. Otherwise, the recipes will focus on a holistic approach, addressing multiple NCDs at once. After all, overcoming or avoiding one NCD isn’t much help if another develops.
These updates, along with the skills you’ll gain, will empower you to create your own or re-imagine your favorite guilty pleasure foods in a healthier, tastier way.
All to make your cooking experience even more convenient, enjoyable, and beneficial for you and your family! Ultimately, I hope to equip you with the skills and resources to effortlessly and confidently whip up your wildest plant-based creations in no time at all.
I hope you’re as excited as I am about these upcoming changes!
Until next time, stay nourished.
