New Recipes for Old Pasta

Join Meals with Maria in this pantry challenge 2024, where I share new recipes for using up old pasta in your pantry. Get creative and frugal with these pantry clean-out meals!

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Pasta Salad: https://mealswithmaria.site/easy-mexican-pasta-salad-recipe/
Meatballs: https://mealswithmaria.site/homemade-meatballs-recipe/
Linguine: https://mealswithmaria.site/summer-pasta-primavera-recipe-with-fiddleheads/

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all right we’re gonna go in and get out all of the pasta I think this is all pasta this is pasta this is like Ramen noodles and stuff but I think I might even see more pasta so we’re going to pull it all out and make some decisions about how we’re going to use our pasta over the next week so we definitely have a lot of pasta and I’m not going to be eating all of this pasta this week but what I do want to try and do and I quote you know inventory each week but I definitely don’t go through like every single box so sometimes it adds up like this I want to try and use some of the ones that we’ve used like part of so we have the bow tie that’s open I’m probably not going to make a lasagna this week but this will be fine till the fall when it’s more like lasagna time uh these are not open so we probably leave them rotini could do like a pasta salad Linguini that’s good for spaghetti I know the kids want to have spaghetti meatballs we’ll save this one another time and I have open uh rigatoni too so we’ll just take all the ones that are still closed put those away and then just focus in on these and I think we’re definitely going to do a spaghetti meatballs I’m thinking like a Pasta Prima Vera cuz I have some fresh local fiddleheads and then some pasta salad for this weekend so my sister-in-law asked if I could bring a side to a little end of the school year party so we’re going to grab the second half of this Jam and I’m going to make a Mexican pasta salad also need some black beans and as I was going through my condiments I was like wow what have I done this even happens to the best of us this is why I do this right three half open containers of salsa we tell you that we like the Market Basket brand the salsa mild if you’ve been around for a while my husband with the salsa mild so we’ll grab one of these and add this too all right so this pasta salad as with most pasta salads it’s pretty easy cut and dump you want to use one cup of salsa and I know it’s not big savings but I cannot help myself but put a little bit of water in the bottom of a jar like that and kind of wash everything out and get the rest out uh it just feels like I’m saving like I don’t want to throw anything away you know a/ thir a cup of sour cream or you can use Greek yogurt I really like Greek yogurt because it’s not much more expensive and it adds extra protein so it’s kind of like a healthy budget swap then you want to add 3 tablespoons of mayo you can see we’ve got kind of the last of the bottle here but this is a perfect kind of use it up kind of thing then you just want to add a tablespoon of olive oil the juice of half of a lime and then I’m just crushing some cloves of garlic CU I’m going to grate those in but I also at this point was able to get my pasta the water was boiling so you just want to cook that up according to package instructions and then you can either grate the garlic in I like to use a micr plane you could use a garlic press you could mince it or you could use about a teaspoon of garlic garlic powder and then for spices I just added a teaspoon of cumin a teaspoon of paprika a/4 teaspoon of salt and and just give that a good stir and that is basically the I mean I don’t want to say sauce because it’s not really sauce on a pasta salad I’m trying to think of what it is I mean it’s like the mayoi mixture that goes on it it’s all the flavor right then I’m just going to slice up some veggies a nice thing about this salad is not only is it super flavorful but it’s like really bright with all these fresh vegetables and these are things you can get relatively inexpensive especially this time of year so I’ve got some red onion and I’m just mincing that and then you’re going to have pepper either like red or yellow or orange pepper even green pepper would taste good in this and just mince that I find the peppers are great to buy on sale because they last a really long time in your crisper and then uh I like diced up some cucumber again this time of year summer spring cucumbers it’s like less than a dollar for a cucumber so inexpensive and such a great flavor and great add to a dish like this and then I’m also chopping up about 1/4 cup of cilantro which adds a ton of flavor to this and I think that it actually kind of like rounds the whole thing out and then to your mayo and Greek yogurt mixture you want to add that half a pound of cooked pasta make sure that’s fully cooled off and then one can of drained and rinsed black beans and then all those veggies in there and you just give that a good mix and you can serve it right away you can refrigerate it first and it’s just full of flavor it gives like a totally different vibe from a traditional pasta salad and it’s just super P Super Pantry friendly like I love next up I’m going to be making those meatballs like my kids requested and I’m super excited about this because this is my first like full meatball recipe I’ll have my website and I absolutely love making meatballs and I realized my mom didn’t really make them a lot growing up so I think I kind of am like uh living my childhood Over Again by making them when I want to got some water going we’re going to Salt it like the sea give the pasta lots of flavor we’re just doing a super easy sauce about 1/4 cup of olive oil two cloves of garlic I kind of smashed them into a paste they like I don’t know really mashed them down I’m going to do the same thing in here just kind of smush them into this we’re just going to warm up this garlic in this olive oil and as much as I love fire roasted diced tomatoes you don’t have to use them I just happen to have them and then for the second can I just have regular petite diced tomatoes so like I said whatever you have on hand will work you want this heat over a medium high we’re going to add about a teaspoon of salt we’re just going to cook this for about we’re going to we’re going to heat it up until it boils until it kind of comes to a boil and then once it does um turn it down to low and simmer it for about 35 minutes all right so we’re going to make a lot of Meatballs I am going to grate in two onions use 2 lbs of ground beef I have actually a little over 2 lbs but luckily meatballs are super forgiving and you can kind of you know make make the best of it about 2 cups C of chopped up bread and I have uh some white bread in here and then like some hot dog rolls and I think that’s going to be fine so I’m actually add a bread crumbs about 1/4 cup of Parmesan cheese we’re going to do a couple teaspoons of garlic powder a couple teaspoons of Italian seasoning and two eggs let’s not forget we also need salt and pepper so we’ll do teaspoon or so of salt and a half a teaspoon of pepper and you can try and be polite and just use your fork but realistically hand are going to be best for this so give your hands a good wash and then get them in there if you had pork you could also add pork to this and do like half pork half ground beef I’ve also done meatballs with just like ground turkey or ground chicken it’s a bit of a different flavor but it’s not too crazy and you do want to mix this as well as you can but you don’t want to over mix it because that kind of will end up um too dense so I’ve got my extra large 14-in pan over a medium low heat here and you can always just half the recipe that I made cuz this is going to make enough for a few days for us and I can even freeze them if I need to and I’m just covering the bottom here in some olive oil you want to take a cookie scoop that’s what I like to use this is 1 and 1/2 tablespoons we’re just going to go right in here scoop out some meatball size pieces kind of roll it up again not too tight just just right and put it in [Music] [Music] so with this sauce you don’t have to but you can use like a blender know my kids aren’t going to like it as uh chunky so I tried my best to kind of get some of the fat out of this so we’re just going to pour the sauce right in here and let these meatballs finish [Music] cooking so I don’t know it doesn’t get much better than that Saucy delicious meatballs my meatballs are almost done so I just cut up a bunch of fresh basil and put it over the top but you could also use some dried basil and that would be fine too give it a lot of last minute flavor if you find that your sauce is like too Tangy or too tiny you can add in a teaspoon of sugar kind of mix that in and that will give it um kind of round that flavor out for you they combine you think that’s funny what you think that’s funny noodle hands look it eight out of eight so we’re making a fiddlehead Pasta Prima Vera today I’m starting with a large pot of water we’re going to bring this to a boil and then we’re going to clean our fiddleheads so I’m just going to rinse them and then submerge them in cold water and then some brown scaly stuff should come off and I’m going to kind of rub all that off you just really want to clean them well um it’s definitely a different process so if you can’t get fresh fiddleheads definitely or you don’t want to go through that process uh just use some asparagus that would be really good in this broccoli something like that and then off to the side here I am going to slice up some bacon and start cooking that in the pan while I start cleaning the fiddleheads um because we’re going to use bacon in this pasta dish I just trimmed the end of the these fiddle heads too and we’re just going to pour them into this boiling water and cook them for about 5 to 7 Minutes very steamy and so while I’m using bacon in this I’m just going to leave this Bacon fat and cook some peas in here too you could also use uh cubed ham and some butter or you could use Panetta I think that would also be delicious in this I was actually looking for panchetta but I couldn’t find it at my local grocery store so we just went with bacon so as our fiddleheads cook we’re just going to mix up two eggs about 1/4 cup of heavy whipping cream and a/4 teaspoon of salt and pepper and two teaspoons of Parmesan cheese going to make almost like a carbonara and then once my fiddle heads were done I just drain them and rinse them yet again just to kind of make sure that that cooking process was over and then I just use that same pot I’m just going to cook the pasta up in there I mean why use more than one dish when you don’t have to you can just see how green these turned out it’s giving me Christmas Vibes with the green and red and then to my pan with the bacon I ended up adding some shiitake mushrooms and you could use button mushrooms as well if you’d like and just sauté those until those mushrooms are cooked down couple minutes and then add in a teaspoon of garlic powder and then I used about a half a pound of Linguini you can cook that up you could use like angel hair pasta or spaghetti too if you want to so to this I’m just going to add about a cup of frozen peas just just Frozen right in there might go a little more generous cuz my kids actually like peas also going to add in our fiddleheads here this is turning quite green but in a good [Music] way and when the pasta is done I’m just going to add it right to the vegetables this is about a half a pound of linguini quite a bit of food honestly and if you remember our egg and Parmesan mixture just going to pour that right over this pasta and mix it in I turned off the heat to this a few minutes ago so I’m not worried about it still being on the same heat there but if you just turned your heat off you’re going to want to just take it off of the Heat and do it elsewhere because you really don’t want it to be cooking the pasta itself is going to cook this mixture up then we’ll do about another 1/4 cup of Parmesan over the top once everything’s well mixed together you can see this has become quite creamy and earlier you could have added some dried basil but I have some fresh basil that I’m just going to put over the top right now all right I’ve been focusing on cleaning out different areas in my pantry each week so go ahead and click on this next video to see what I did with my [Music] cans I was out of use now every day every night every moment with you walking on air and every day