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45 Minute Pasta with Italian Sausage
Main DishPastaPoultryRed Meat

45 Minute Pasta with Italian Sausage

PollyAugust 30, 2024July 15, 2025

I’ve been making this pasta dish for a number of years. I think I found the original recipe in a Food and Wine Magazine because that’s where I found this photo—mine vanishing into thin air with the recent website malfunction…

Fresh Tomato Lasagna
Main DishMeatlessPastaSeasonalSummer

Fresh Tomato Lasagna

PollySeptember 29, 2023August 28, 2025

This lasagna is creamy, cheesy and fresh tasting, but lighter than regular lasagna—though still rich. Since there are so few ingredients in this lasagna make sure your tomatoes are the BEST; they’re what makes this lasagna! Although this pan of lasagna looks…

Italian Wedding Soup
Main DishPastaRed MeatSoupsWinter

Italian Wedding Soup

PollyFebruary 24, 2017August 28, 2025

Italian Wedding Soup is easy to make, and is good as soon as it’s made—no need to sit overnight to intensify the flavors! Not being Italian, I can’t claim this is just like my Nonna made, nor can I claim…

Four Cheese Spinach Manicotti
Main DishPastaRed Meat

Four Cheese Spinach Manicotti

PollyMarch 20, 2012July 24, 2025

I must admit, I make a pretty mean manicotti. I’d forgotten how good it was until I made some on the spur-of-the-moment this week. My manicotti is probably not very authentic, seeing as I have no genuine Italian reference point…

Homemade Spaghetti Sauce
Main DishPastaRed MeatTeaching Boys to Cook Series

Homemade Spaghetti Sauce

PollySeptember 24, 2010August 19, 2025

Who eats jarred spaghetti sauce?  I hope no one! I don’t; not ever. Well, I’ve had a spoonful here and there, so I do know how bad it is—which is generally too much vinegar. I like wine, tomatoes, onions, fresh mushrooms and…

Gingerbread Biscotti
Cookies & BarsSweets

Gingerbread Biscotti

PollySeptember 16, 2010August 3, 2025

This biscotti is not sweet and it’s lovely and crumbly, the perfect, light ‘little something’ with a fall cup of tea or coffee. I am quite proud of this recipe—I did my homework before I made it. I looked at a…

Zucchini Pasta
Main DishMeatlessPastaSeasonalSummerTeaching Boys to Cook SeriesVeggies

Zucchini Pasta

PollySeptember 11, 2010August 28, 2025

I have debated back and forth about posting this recipe. Pros: it uses up zucchini, which is very important this time of year! The pasta recipe is good; simple, straightforward, and good. Cons: It’s not GREAT; it’s good, but it’s lacking…

Crockpot Pizza Sauce, Bread Machine Pizza Dough, and a Good Cheese Blend
AppetizersBreadsCrockpotFor a Bread MachineMain DishPizza and TartsSauces, Dips & Spreads

Crockpot Pizza Sauce, Bread Machine Pizza Dough, and a Good Cheese Blend

PollySeptember 10, 2010August 3, 2025

I’ve finally found something that the crockpot excels in—excels in! This is not just a recipe that can be cooked in the crockpot, it’s a recipe that should be cooked in a crockpot! Yes, a recipe that tastes best cooked in…

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It's all about the recipe—really, it is! I have amassed quite a collection of recipes from my favorite cookbooks, food magazines, friends, the Internet, and more recently my adult daughters. I test every recipe I post. Some I've been cooking for years, decades even, and a few I have made only a few times. I don't post mediocre recipes. I don't post good recipes. I post GREAT recipes! When I find a recipe I LOVE, I can't wait to share it. I started In the Kitchen with Polly on January 01, 2010, a joint venture between myself and my non-cooking but most excellent webmaster, proofreader, technical goddess and all-around bestie, ratty (not a joke—ratty is her chosen nickname—her Mama didn’t do that to her, she did it to herself!). Last year we hit a snag—the website went up in monstrous flames. It took a long time to sort out what happened and even longer to recreate what was lost. Hundreds of pictures gone, and every recipe we posted (300+) over the last 14 years had to be reformatted, many pictures retaken. It's done now though, and we are back! I like this brighter version :) Scroll through! Find something you like, and let's get cooking! There’s a search button and there are also tags to click on if you want to find a recipe for a specific food. If you need it, the print button is on the preview page and at the end of each post.

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