https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:44:26 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish/page/2#post-2697134 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:02:02 +0000 irene 2697134@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>the first thing that came to my mind was pasta with puttanesca sauce. I have a super delicious recipe ( <a href="http://www.food.com/recipe/linguine-with-fresh-puttanesca-sauce-68642" rel="nofollow">http://www.food.com/recipe/linguine-with-fresh-puttanesca-sauce-68642</a> ) that is very easy and there is literally no cooking (other than the actual pasta itself). It does ask for 4 pieces of very tiny anchovies but I think you can omit that and add some salt in its place. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish/page/2#post-2697124 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 14:50:45 +0000 littlejoy 2697124@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We LOVE pasta + pesto + caramelized mushrooms + roasted tomatoes. It's such a good meal!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish/page/2#post-2697031 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 13:17:31 +0000 PawPrints 2697031@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This one is delicious as well <a href="https://www.budgetbytes.com/2016/03/creamy-pesto-mac-spinach/" rel="nofollow">https://www.budgetbytes.com/2016/03/creamy-pesto-mac-spinach/</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish/page/2#post-2697027 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 13:15:27 +0000 LulaBee 2697027@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love this thread. I've been vegetarian for most of my life and never make any type of yummy pasta- we always eat noodles/marinara sauce or mac n cheese. I've copied and pasted everything in this thread and I think my kids will thank me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish/page/2#post-2696994 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 12:16:57 +0000 SLR 2696994@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Bruschetta style with olive oil, balsamic, garlic, chopped tomatoes, basil, crushed red pepper, and fresh mozzarella. (Served hot. Not like a pasta salad.)</p> <p>Butternut squash ravioli with brown butter and sage.</p> <p>Love puttanesca too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696931 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:53:57 +0000 looch 2696931@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh, I forgot one, this is really simple and not so good for you, the sauce is basically cream and saffron.</p> <p>If I am making something like veal and don't feel like making risotto, I make this pasta to serve as a side dish. I have also put diced, cooked shrimp in it and made it like a seafood pasta, but not vegetarian, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696927 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:43:43 +0000 LCTBQE 2696927@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Carrot: yep, like looch said, carbonara's creaminess is just from mixing pasta water with egg and cheese--the picture in your link just looked similar :)<br /> @SweetiePie: yesssss ! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696923 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:40:18 +0000 SweetiePie 2696923@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LCTBQE: I think you can accomplish it. Mine eats adult food because that's what we always offered.<br /> And he LOVES olives! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696920 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:35:51 +0000 looch 2696920@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pasta Carbonara is eggs and pancetta. No one really knows how it originated, but it's thought that American GIs in WW2 had bacon and eggs rations and some Italian? restaurant owner used it to make a pasta dish. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696914 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:33:12 +0000 Mrs. Carrot 2696914@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LCTBQE: Carbonara is more cream based, I believe. This is literally just parmesan and some pasta water, melt and stir. Super easy, and if you get good pepper (pepper grinders are my jam), it's got a great kick too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696893 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:01:53 +0000 SweetiePie 2696893@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Carrot: Just saw your comment after I just posted mine. I should scroll up more often. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696892 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:01:45 +0000 LCTBQE 2696892@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SweetiePie: LOVE olives and capers and all that zingy stuff. one of my parenting goals is to get the kid to enjoy these flavors too--my nightmare is a chicken-fingers-only eater :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696891 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:01:21 +0000 SweetiePie 2696891@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh and I just thought of another really good simple vegetarian pasta. Cacio e Pepe. I've never actually made it though but from what I understand it's very easy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696889 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 09:59:58 +0000 LCTBQE 2696889@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Carrot: is this kind of like carbonara without the bacon? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696888 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 09:59:21 +0000 SweetiePie 2696888@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LCTBQE: let me know how you like it! I mean you have to really like olives of course. I love olives so for me it's awesome.</p> <p>Oh and mine is completely made up. But I know if you Google olive pasta lots of actual recipes come up if you want to make something more exact. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696886 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 09:57:01 +0000 LCTBQE 2696886@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@nana87: your invented recipes sound so good! (ps, how's it going?! :heart: )</p> <p>@SweetiePie: now I'm making this tonight, nothing else sounds good, and great tip about the olive juice. and I'm apparently pasta-gauche :) I think the recipe I have is from Cook's Illustrated and I've always used anchovies when making mine--but, my husband isn't crazy about them either, so it hasn't been in heavy rotation for years now. gonna try it your way! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696822 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 08:44:21 +0000 Mrs. Carrot 2696822@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Cacio pepe! Not the healthiest option but it's basically grown up mac and cheese, and my kid inhales it as well.<br /> <a href="http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/cacio-e-pepe-365162" rel="nofollow">http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/cacio-e-pepe-365162</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696784 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 06:50:00 +0000 Pumuckl 2696784@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>One of our favorite sauces is just sautéed spinach with some cream cheese added to it. Season with salt, pepper and maybe some nutmeg. If we do non-vegetarian we add some bacon bits to it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696676 Sun, 12 Feb 2017 21:04:02 +0000 luckylifemummy 2696676@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@travellingbee: pesto! For vegetarian<br /> For vegan - I like olive oil, and roasted veggies tossed in spaghetti </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696588 Sun, 12 Feb 2017 17:22:37 +0000 yoursilverlining 2696588@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: I LOVE anchovies in pasta - you are so right that they just melt and make it a little salty and savory. Not fishy at all! One of our favorite pasta dishes is just anchovies, garlic, parsley and a good squeeze of lemon juice. So good and surprisingly hearty. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696577 Sun, 12 Feb 2017 16:28:21 +0000 skipra 2696577@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With a baby I don't have time to do elaborate meals so I've been making one pot pasta and basically just throw in whatever veggies I have on hand and some white beans at the end. I like putting a bit of lemon juice and a lot of seasonings in too.<br /> Otherwise, I LOVE squash ravioli with a sage brown butter sauce. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696533 Sun, 12 Feb 2017 14:36:20 +0000 looch 2696533@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SweetiePie: I love puttanesca as well...would you believe that I never ate it growing up? I think it's because my dad doesn't like capers, so my mom never made it. That and pesto...which is weird, because my mom makes dishes from all the regions in italy, including a dish with onions and veal traditional to Genoa (which I believe is where pesto also originated, but not sure).</p> <p>I like anchovies, they melt in pasta sauce and just make it salty. I think puttanesca originally had whatever was around in it, so maybe some people used anchovies and some didn't. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696506 Sun, 12 Feb 2017 13:49:11 +0000 SweetiePie 2696506@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gingerbebe: Broccoli in pasta is one of my favorites. There's a ton of Italian restaurants near me and when we take LO we always order the penne with garlic EVOO and broccoli. I make it at home too occasionally (but you know me and cooking. Doesn't happen often. Lol). </p> <p>@LCTBQE: I Looooove puttanesca. I avoided it forever because of the anchovies but then we did our babymoon in Italy and when I asked if the puttanesca had anchovies they looked at me like I had 3 heads. He asked "why would it?" I guess that's not the traditional preparation. I had it and it was the best pasta dish I'd ever eaten. I love olives and capers! Occasionally I can find an artisinal puttanesca sauce that doesn't have anchovies. </p> <p>If you like olives I will boil pasta and then sautéed garlic and green olives in olive oil just till a little toasty/soft. Then I add the pasta with a little of the water, the olive juice (key), chili flakes and a squeeze of lemon and sautée it all together a little longer.<br /> Talking about capers above made me want to try this again with Capers added. I love salty food. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696488 Sun, 12 Feb 2017 13:17:40 +0000 looch 2696488@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gingerbebe: My mom does this and it's my least favorite in her repertoire. When she serves that, I am like this again, even though we haven't eaten it in a hundred years!</p> <p>I recently asked at the table what our least favorite pasta dishes were and I was surprised to hear the answers, especially from my father! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696474 Sun, 12 Feb 2017 12:21:31 +0000 PawPrints 2696474@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is so so good <a href="https://smittenkitchen.com/2008/01/rigatoni-with-eggplant-puree/#more-430" rel="nofollow">https://smittenkitchen.com/2008/01/rigatoni-with-eggplant-puree/#more-430</a></p> <p>I've also done this a million times <a href="https://smittenkitchen.com/2010/09/linguine-with-tomato-almond-pesto/" rel="nofollow">https://smittenkitchen.com/2010/09/linguine-with-tomato-almond-pesto/</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696468 Sun, 12 Feb 2017 12:12:11 +0000 808love 2696468@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gingerbebe: I'm going to make this! Sounds so yummy! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696463 Sun, 12 Feb 2017 12:05:51 +0000 gingerbebe 2696463@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I also do a simple broccoli pasta. I boil a short pasta like gemmeli or penne and in the last few minutes throw in a few florets of broccoli. Then I reserve 1 cup of pasta water. I saute garlic and chili flakes in olive oil, add a big splash of white wine, let the booze burn off, then dump in the pasta and broccoli and a lot of parm cheese. I toss everything together and add pasta water as necessary to create a light sauce and squirt with lemon juice and lots of black pepper. Its good just like this, or I saute chicken sausage (you can use Tofurkey) with the garlic. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696425 Sun, 12 Feb 2017 10:47:36 +0000 yoursilverlining 2696425@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pesto or a hearty mushroom bolognase (I've made a great one that uses like 3 types of mushrooms and lots of veggies). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696372 Sun, 12 Feb 2017 07:55:44 +0000 psw27 2696372@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I haven't made in it years but I used to love this recipe:</p> <p><a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/baked-penne-with-roasted-vegetables-recipe" rel="nofollow">http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/baked-penne-with-roasted-vegetables-recipe</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-favorite-vegetarian-pasta-dish#post-2696359 Sun, 12 Feb 2017 07:06:45 +0000 looch 2696359@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pasta with pureed cannellini beans, sun-dried tomatoes and rosemary.<br /> If eggs are on the table, I like carbonara. I find I don't even miss the bacon.</p> <p>My lasagne recipe isn't vegetarian, lol! </p>