Reggiano/9 recipes

Grapefruit, orange and watercress create this refreshing and light salad. Great to serve before or after any heavier fat laden meal to clean the palate. Also good to incorporate some fall and winter fruit.

A quick and easy vegetarian pasta main dish with pizzazz. Fun farfalle pasta tossed with nutty almonds and asparagus in tangy buttery sauce.

Arugula (Rocket) or Baby Spinach tossed with a flavorful warm mushroom and onion dressing. A perfect balancing of fresh clean flavor with a warm woodsy note from the mushrooms.

Are you a cheese lover? If you use a cheese tortellini this can turn into a 4 cheese pasta dish.

This is a recipe I made for a food styling course from a cookbook. The assignment was to duplicate the look and feel of a recipe from a magazine or cookbook. This is a modified recipe that came from the book Healthy Appetite by Gordon Ramsay.

This delicious vegetable soup can help you use your left-over Parmesan rinds and your leftover bread, with several fresh vegetables under a low temperature cooking, the soup is just flavorful.

It is a quick and easy way to cook asparagus, and tasty too.

This delicious and nutritious salad is so easy to make, and loaded with refreshing and cheesy flavor. It can be a side dish or you can have it as a light main dish.

A tasty cheese souffle loaded with cheddar cheese and and Canadian bacon (ham).

Roasted pears are tender, juicy with delicious caramelization. The mixture of arugula and romain lettuce adds yummy peppery taste and some nice refreshing crunch. The toasted walnuts and Parmesan cheese give extra yumminess.

Roasted red pepper cheese toasts with herbed mozzarella, balsamic vinegar, and Parmesan on whole wheat bread. A quick vegetarian appetizer or snack ready in 15 minutes.

This tortellini salad is easily hearty enough to be your main dish. It comes together quickly with a cream cheese based sauce and ready made fresh tortellini.

My family loves Italian food so I created this recipe to fit our tastes of a savory marinara sauce that is great over pasta, in lasagna, on pizza and as a dipping sauce. We love it over cooked spaghetti squash. You can make it with the meatballs or leave them out. It very freezes well.

Creamy arborio rice risotto with roasted butternut squash, earthy shiitake mushrooms, and Parmigiano-Reggiano. A low-fat, vegetarian comfort dish that's worthy of a dinner party.

Savory muffins seasoned with Parmesan, sage and parsley. Breakfast buttermilk muffins; perfect for a grab 'n go brekkie.

Light penne pasta tossed with microwave-cooked mushrooms, tomatoes, garlic, and olives. A 20-minute Weight Watchers dinner with bold Italian flavors.