"Easy recipe with lots of flavor. It's also less heavy than an Alfredo sauce. I wasn't able to follow the recipe exactly: no parsley, used dried basil, and lessened the garlic to three cloves and the red peppers to 1/8 t. I also used 1/2 lb bay scallops and 1/2 lb jumbo shrimp cut into smaller pieces. Oh...and I used chopped, Italian-style, stewed "

"My husband and I were hoping to both recreate and perhaps improve on the sloppy Joe's we were served as children. I followed this recipe exactly, using high-quality beef and KCM Original sauce. The resulting sandwiches were good, but not excellent. I think we were expecting a brighter, tangier tomato flavor. Instead, the meat dish had a rather fla"

"Excellent! Because I wanted to use this recipe to make sandwiches, I made a few changes. First, I cooked the onion and peppers for 12-15 minutes to make sure they were completely softened, and to eliminate extra moisture. Then, I used two cans of cut tomatoes (with basil, garlic, and oregano), drained of juice (saved for another day and another re""

"I can always count on Giada's recipes to produce dishes that my family loves. This one is no exception. This time, I followed the recipe exactly and I was pleased with the results. Next time, I'll try reducing the three tablespoons of butter mixed with the linguine, just to see if the recipe is still as good with just one (or none). I was a bit ""

"While I typically love Giada's recipes, this one didn't please my husband or me. The goat cheese is somewhat sour; and the raw garlic overwhelming both in taste and scent. The whole-wheat penne pasta brings a grainy texture to the dish that is only made worse by the raw spinach in the sauce. A lot of differing flavors and textures that don't complement each other.

"A very tasty and satisfying soup. Because I've never found a commercially available vegetable broth that I like, I substituted two cans of chicken broth and three cans of low-salt chicken broth for the vegetable broth. I also substituted 1/2 and 1/2 for the heavy cream. I like my soup to have a bit of chunkiness, so I skipped using the immersion blender on the cooked potatoes, and instead mixed two tablespoons of flour with the cooked leek mixture (to thicken the soup, before I gradually stirred in the broth. The resulting soup was great served with a crusty rosemary bread. My husband declared this a keeper.

"While I typically love Giada’s recipes, this one didn’t please my husband or me. The goat cheese is somewhat sour; and the raw garlic overwhelming both in taste and scent. The whole-wheat penne pasta brings a grainy texture to the dish that is only made worse by the raw spinach in the sauce. A lot of differing flavors and textures that don’t complement each other.

"While I typically love Giada’s recipes, this one didn’t please my husband or me. The goat cheese is somewhat sour; and the raw garlic overwhelming both in taste and scent. The whole-wheat penne pasta brings a grainy texture to the dish that is only made worse by the raw spinach in the sauce. A lot of differing flavors and textures that don’t complement each other.