Baked Penne with Chicken and Sun-Dried Tomatoes

This was our Valentine's day dinner with creamy strawberry crepe as dessert. The pasta turned out great. To melted butter, garlic, all purpose flour, milk, mushrooms, tomatoes, fried chicken pieces, provolone, parmesan and cooked pasta are added. It is then baked for 25 minutes at 400F. I got the sun-dried tomatoes from a colleague. It was very finely chopped and disappeared into pasta giving it a brown color.
Recipe Courtesy: MarthaStewart.com

Spinach Lasagna (Florentine Lasagna)

Spinach lasagna is one of my favorite lasagna. Instead of frozen spinach, I used freshly cooked spinach with some spices and it turned out super delicious.

Recipe Courtesy: Kathy Maister's StartCooking.com

Beef Lasagna

I still remember the first time I went to an Italian restaurant. I totally hated pasta then. Years passed and now I crave for Italian food (American version of Italian food, to be precise). I heard authentic Italian food tastes different from those served in Italian restaurants in US. The other day I asked my husband to buy some beef to make curry and he brought home a pound of ground beef! My next thought process was, what should I make, beef cutlet or lasagna? Finally I gave in to my Italian craving. Apparently, my son also loved the lasagna, but he doesn't seem like a fan of ricotta cheese. I made some minor changes to the original recipe by adding some Indian spices to the beef.

Recipe Courtesy: Good Things Catered