Pastas

Comforting pasta dinners the whole family will love. Creamy carbonara, spicy rigatoni with sausage, classic red sauce, and more. These are weeknight-friendly recipes made with simple ingredients, tested in my kitchen until they were just right.

  • Creamy Mushroom and Pea Ditilini

    Creamy Mushroom and Pea Ditilini

    This creamy mushroom and pea ditilini is a quick weeknight pasta. The pasta cooks right in chicken stock, so it soaks up all the flavor, then everything comes together with cream and pecorino.

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  • Beef Short Rib Lasagna with Creamy Béchamel

    Beef Short Rib Lasagna with Creamy Béchamel

    This isn’t your weeknight lasagna. This is the one you make when you want everyone at the table to go quiet on the first bite. I braise beef short ribs low and slow until they’re fall-apart tender, then layer them with creamy béchamel (no ricotta here) and lasagna noodles. You can braise them in the…

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  • Red Sauce

    Red Sauce

    A slow-simmered red sauce built on San Marzano tomatoes, fresh basil, and oregano.

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  • Jumbo Shells & Meatballs

    Jumbo Shells & Meatballs

    Tender homemade meatballs with jumbo shells in red sauce.

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  • Bucatini Carbonara

    Bucatini Carbonara

    Classic carbonara made the right way — egg yolks, bacon lardons, no cream. Rich and silky once you know the technique.

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  • Spicy Rigatoni with Sausage

    Spicy Rigatoni with Sausage

    A creamy, spicy red sauce loaded with sausage and fresh mozzarella, tossed with rigatoni. Ready in about 30 minutes.

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  • Creamy Pesto Pasta

    Creamy Pesto Pasta

    A quick, rich pasta sauce built on pesto, sun-dried tomatoes, and heavy cream.

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  • Homemade Pesto

    Homemade Pesto

    Classic basil pesto made the traditional way, with pine nuts, garlic, and Parmesan.

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