Reviewed: Mar. 17, 2012

enjoyed this very much.

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MONICA397

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Marrero, Louisiana, USA

Living In: Bixby, Oklahoma, USA

Reviewed: Jul. 30, 2010

This dish was a complete disappointment. It was horribly bland and needed a lot more seasoning.

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Corinne K.

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: May 11, 2010

This is a nice, summery meal. I didn't want it to be so mushy, so instead of a can of tomatoes I used chopped real tomatoes which cooked down nicely but not into complete liquid. Used much greater amounts and variety of dried herbs and chucked in a few black olives for good measure. I think this would be really good with a splash of white wine in the sauce. Actually, I wish I had a chilled glass of wine to go with it, it's one of those dishes!

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Babzil

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Pecs, Baranya, Hungary

Living In: Pamplona, Navarra, Spain

Reviewed: Apr. 9, 2010

Really easy to make, doesn't require that many ingredients and tastes delicious!!!

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Cookiecrunch

Reviewed: Mar. 11, 2010

This was alright and certainly was healthy but it was a little bland for my taste. The only real substitution I made was using fresh tomatoes instead of canned (which I do for most recipes). If I made this again I would definitely try to work with adding some different spices to give it a little more flavor. It just needs a little bit of help.

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Chef Dad

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Binghamton, New York, USA

Living In: Oakland, California, USA

Reviewed: Feb. 14, 2010

The basic sauce recipe yields a simple pasta sauce similar to pasta primavera. However, we didn't quite follow the recipe. Basically I forgot to add the beans and decided to do the zucchini as spears instead of diced. Anyway, here's what we did... We followed the basic sauce recipe with the exception of the beans and zucchini. The Zucchini was caramelised in butter and brown sugar with slivers of ginger. Serving was simple. 2 spears of zucchini over a bed of rice with some of the brown sugar sauce (be careful, this will start to turn into caramel when removed from the heat. If you keep stirring the liquid that separates from the caramel is used,) poured over them with the main sauce spooned between the spears and over the rice. The main sauce would probably have worked better if grape/cherry tomatoes were used as the base with chopped sun-dried tomatoes added in the last few minutes, as their tartness would have countered the sweetness of the zucchini more completely than the sauce as is did.

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Sarah

Cooking Level: Beginning

Home Town: Tucson, Arizona, USA

Living In: Federal Way, Washington, USA

Reviewed: Feb. 7, 2010

LOVED THIS! This is definitely something I will make again and again. I made a few modifications - I added a cup of spinach, canned mushrooms, olives. I decided to use diced tomatoes instead of whole, just out of preference and instead of cannellini beans I used garbanzo instead. It was DELICIOUS! So simple and easy to make. Next time I think I'll try using brown rice instead of white to make it a bit healthier. Looooved it....

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morgansmiles

Reviewed: Jan. 10, 2010

This is a really good 'basis' recipe! I added crushed red pepper also for kick, some fresh chopped parsley (cause it was going bad!) and a can of mushrooms. Perfect recipe for a chilly.cold night!! Very warming - will cerainly make again!

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Laura

Reviewed: Nov. 22, 2009

I didn't have the cannellini beans, so I replaced them with another protein known as shredded chicken. Great easy dish, highly recommend it. I used canned roasted tomatoes....yummy. Great aroma too. Very healthy dish. Plan to use the beans next time.

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Mattie Hyde

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Reviewed: Oct. 3, 2009

This can be a really nice dish with a few changes. First of all I wouldn't serve this it over rice, this is a dish to serve over penne or bowtie pasta (I did serve over spaghetti because I had leftovers already cooked and didn't want to waste it). Also fresh basil and fresh grated parmesan are a nice addition to this dish.

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