Are you looking for a quick and satisfying meal? Something that can go full circle from dinner to lunch and back again? Great! This pasta is perfect no matter when you enjoy it. This recipe I adapted from one of my besties cookbooks. I bet most of you know Jenny from Picky Palate right? I am thrilled to share the Picky Palate cookbook with you all today!
If you have any picky eaters in your house then this cookbook is essential. The recipes are well rounded, ingredients easy to find and the meals are very affordable. There is a great reason why Jenny’s blog is one of the most popular foodie destinations in the world. Yes, in the world folks.
Jenny’s amazing personality shines through in the intro and all of the head notes in the book. Her recipes are sure to become family favorites! In this cookbook you will find tempting breakfasts such as: Apple-Spice Puff Pancake with Caramel Syrup, Bacon and Cheddar Florentine Quiche & Streusel-Topped Pumpkin Bread.
There are plenty of savories for lunch and dinner: Cheesy Chicken Pot Pies, Slow-Cooked Green Chili Pork Tacos, 10-Minute Creamy Tomato-Basil Soup & Black Bean Guacamole Burgers are a few to tempt you.
The desserts! Jenny has such a way with sweets. In her book you will be dazzled by Ice Cream Sundae Brownies, Almond Lover’s Chocolate Chip Cookies (yes please!) her super famous Oreo-Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies and plenty more!
All of the recipes are expertly photographed by another amazing pal Matt Armendariz (Matt Bites) The photos leap off the pages and will make you want to dash to the kitchen.
My kids and husband love pasta. Seriously, they could eat it for every meal. This skillet dinner is filled with protein from lean bison and cheese. I used brown rice pasta so my gluten free readers would not feel left out.
The crushed tomatoes offer up some veggies. I love to serve pasta with a side of extra tomato sauce too. My recipe here is an adaptation. Be sure to check out page 108 (Rigatoni Skillet Dinner) in the Picky Palate cookbook for Jenny’s version.
Also visit The Picky Palate Cookbook post on Jenny’s blog to see more reviews and stores to purchase her cookbook. It would make for an amazing and affordable holiday gift!
Skillet Pasta Recipe Links
- Cheesy Tex-Mex Pasta Skillet The Comfort of Cooking
- Chicken, Broccoli and Cheese Trottole Pasta Miss in the Kitchen
- Mediterranean Shrimp Skillet Iowa Girl East
- Skillet Lasagna Generation Y Foodie
- One Skillet Pumpkin Lasagna The Realistic Nutritionist
- Weeknight Fettuccine with Sausage and Kale Pass the Sushi
Scrumptious and so comforting! The kind of dish I love to eat when it’s cold outside.
Cheers,
Rosa
My great-great-grandma’s English pasty recipe is the best family recipe we have!
My mom’s tamale pie. Yummy!
My grandmother’s “fruitcake” recipe – it’s more like a pound cake, spiked with sherry and nutmeg and studded with raisins.
MY favorite family recipe is for Chicken Pot Pie. It’s so simple, but so good!
My favorite family recipe one for cinnamon swirl bread.
We have too many family favorites to choose just one, but we do love my Granny’s beef stew recipe. It’s simple yet so divine! I ate it as my first meat because the beef is cooked so long it’s soft and easy to chew, and I’ve made it for all my kids when it was time for their first table food. It warms my belly and my heart each time I make it.
Panko Chicken – it’s much healthier than fried!! 🙂
Wow, looks like a great cookbook and I love the pictures you took of everything (as always).
My family all loves pasta with pesto, tomatoes, chicken and black olives! I love your adaptation of Jenny’s recipe. I have bison that needs to be used up and this looks perfect for that.
My family favorite is spaghetti with meat sauce, so this looks similar to my recipe, but taken up a notch with extra cheese!! Sounds yummy 🙂
This looks like a great cookbook. I love my family’s kidney bean goulash.
It would have to be my Hubby’s pasta carbonara!
lasagna!
My favorite family recipe is pot roast.
We love homemade pizza:)
This recipe looks great for kids! My grand-children are picky eaters and I try to make healthy meals for them all the time when they come over. I know this dish has lots of cheese but is a little more healthy because it calls for bison and brown rice. Do you know of any other dishes they may like. You can contact me on my blog!
Thanks, Millie
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Favorite fam recipe would definitely have to be twice baked potatoes.
It would definitely have to be my grandma’s beef stew.
I love a casserole my mom used to make. It is a really simple ground beef and rice casserole. I taught my ex how to make it and it was the only thing he could cook. He could grill, just not cook.
Favorite Family Recipe is Pastitsio (Greek Lasagna)
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white chicken chili!
My mom’s chili is a great family recipe. This book looks like it has a lot of great family favorites!
German chocolate cake balls!
My go to family favorite is some kind of pasta…the possibilites are endless!
My grandmother’s apple pie!
What a great pasta recipe, looks comforting and delicious for the whole family!
Enchiladas are a recipe our family has been making for years, and they are a favorite!
Looks yummy! I have kids that are picky from time to time and I love cookbooks. Thanks for the chance to win!
I love my family’s recipe for chicken picatta.
It’s not a meal, but it’s my favorite family recipe. I love my great aunt Anne’s apple cake.
Potato Rolls….always requested, always loved!
One of my favorite recipes that has been passed on by my mom is her chicken wings. Its always in the dinner rotation, and it always makes the hubs very happy 🙂
Beef Rouladen……so good!!
Our family favorite recipe is Chicken Pasta Alfredo (gluten-free as well) with veggies. It makes an appearance once a month on our menu at home. I’m so excited to check out this book. I love her recipes. Thank you for posting this recipe. I’m glad to know it turned out well with the gluten-free noodles.
My mama’s pecan pie recipe 🙂
Love your adaptation!
We love slow-cooked carnitas…. YUM!
I love a skillet pasta, this looks delish!
I think it is chili. We are always so happy when it is cool enough outside to have chili again.
I would LOVE to win this cookbook, I’ve been a longtime follower of Picky Palate and am seeing her cookbook EVERYWHERE! Please pick me!
My favorite family recipe is a classic ground beef chili! Smokey and spicy…yum!
My favorite family recipe is stuffed grape leaves. I kind of revised my grandmother’s traditional recipe when I was pregnant with my third child though. But I ended up liking the revised version better 🙂
My favorite family recipe is chicken pot pie.
My favorite family dinner recipe…hmmmm. There are so many! I would say creamy spinach enchiladas. They are delicious!
sounds good!! will have to try it!
My Grandma’s pumpkin bread recipe!
My favorite is stuffed grape leaves. I craved them daily when I was pregnant with my last baby..
my mom’s lasagna!
Mom’s strogonoff 🙂
Baked potato soup
My favorite family recipe is sausage and peppers! We love to put a batch in the crockpot and let it simmer all day!
This is hard because my family members have different tastes. My boys like spicy and my daughter is completely opposite. One meal we all like is chicken and dumplings.
beef stroganoff
The book sounds awesome.
Creme brûlée French toast for Christmas morning.
Oh I could use this cookbook—have some real picky eaters old and young!
Cheesy pasta always makes me happy!
My family favorite is probably my mom’s homemade spaghetti recipe. Very comforting and the whole family loves it!
I always try to make a pasta dish once in a week. This one looks like a winner for my next week’s pasta menu. It’s scrumptious and making me hungry for some tonight.
My moms lasagna!! (Love your use of Bison… I am making this tomorrow night – thank you!)
I love our family lasagna recipe.
There is something so comforting about a pasta skillet meal and they are so easy! I can’t wait to get Jenny’s cookbook and thanks for the link love!
My family is Italian and we make a recipe we call popat, which is a sort of fritter made with bread crumbs, parmesan, eggs, and seasonings, which is fried then cooked in tomato sauce. It is the best thing to serve with pasta. My family loves them more than just about anything else I make.
Love my mom’s spanish rice!
Reminds me of a childhood favorite: beefaroni!
Favorite family recipe: chipped beef in gravy on toast. Yeah, it’s technically on the back of the package, but it was my favorite growing up!
My moms tofu stir fry
My favorite family recipe is my Mema’s carrot cake
I love a cookbook with good photographs and this one looks like it falls into the good-photography category.
My Spaghetti! I make the best in the world (so I am told by many).
Love Jenny and her book!
Yum!! I love how easy and wholesome this recipe is. I am adding it to my weeknight meals recipe list!
My mom’s homemade spaghetti sauce is my favorite thing, and one I haven’t mastered yet!!
My favorite family recipe is for my mom’s turkey meatballs. They are so good 🙂
great recipe– for the whole family!
My favorite family recipe is my mom’s chicken noodle soup! So good!
Spaghetti and meatballs! This looks great!
My grandmother’s fudge recipe 😀 It’s amazing!
I love cooking with bison – looks delish.
Sliders, tacos and baked Mac & Cheese!
I love baking savory dishes in tart shells.
Today, I’m going with lasagna. Not sure who or where the recipe came from but it’s what I want for comfort food.
My in-laws have a highly secretive rib recipe that I got when we got married (reason enough to marry into this family!!) It is so delicious!
Special k roast with my moms cheesy potatoes
Chicken Enchiladas with Salsa Verde!
My favorite is my Dad’s Sicilian pizza. Cheers!
My favorite family recipe is my mom’s potroast
I love to make golabki for my family the way my grandmother used to make it for me growing up!
Looks so nice and easy!
Kielbasa and Broccoli served over pasta
My favorite recipe is my mom’s spaghetti bolognese. It’s so delicious I could eat it everyday
I love my mom’s recipe for red velvet cake! So wonderful!
This recipe sounds great! I’m going to have to try it out.
We all love taco night.
Naming just 1 favorite family recipe is difficult, but I’ll say my Aunt Eleanor’s Cedric’s Casserole.
My favorite family recipe is my mother’s cornbread dressing with giblets gravy, which sadly is not written down and I have to just mimic what she used to do as she says to use a bit of this and that!
Fun recipe! I’m excited to see the book.
okay- that looks great…wish I had that for lunch right about now!
Love this recipe. I’m all about skillet recipes and pasta in the winter. Definitely on my to-do list. Beautiful Marla.
This pasta looks scrumptious, Marla!!! It’s a complete meal.
I also loved the forks seen in the picture. I hope you don’t mind that I ask you…Where did you buy them? Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year!!
Hi Denise, I believe a few of those are from Pottery Barn Kids 🙂
Ok, this looks amazing! I just printed the recipe and I’m making it tonight. We love buffalo and I use it in place of ground chuck in tacos, burgers, Bolognese sauce, you name it. I love that it contains no fat and is actually leaner than chicken and has so many omegas. I love your blog and it’s pretty similar to mine, healthy (most of the time) family cooking. I can’t wait to check out more recipes!
xoxo, Jackie
Love this, but had trouble finding a couple of the ingredients. The Bison was almost $8. a lb, so I used lean ground chicken instead & it turned out great!
Sounds like a delicious adaptation Andrea! I will try that too 🙂
You know what else sounds good for this? fresh basil. I love basil! I also like your idea of having some sauce on the side. Since I had this for leftovers again tonight, the noodles had soaked up a lot of the sauce,, so its nice to have some sauce on the side to pour on it.
Totally agree Andrea! I love fresh basil too. Happy New Year!
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