"Bowtie Chicken Pasta with a Balsamic Mascarpone Sauce When I was trying to determine which recipes to include for the initial launch of this blog, this recipe kept coming to mind. This was the first recipe my wife and I ever attempted to recreate from scratch. I was attending school in Columbia, Missouri, and one of our favorite restaurants at the time was an Italian-Mediterranean restaurant called Sophia’s. For a while they had the most glorious pasta dish, that really just seeme…..."