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Recipe: Easy Ricotta Gnocchi

A traditional Florentine pasta, ricotta gnocchi is the lighter, hipper cousin to northern Italy's potato gnocchi.This gnocchi cooks up as soft, mild-flavored dumplings. They make a great base for any ...

Recipe: Basic Tomato Sauce (with Optional Zing!)

For the sauce-hungry crowd, here is a basic tomato sauce, with some lemony and spicy elements for adding an optional zing. It's easy, quick, and isn't a boring old sauce. Basic sauces were one of th...

Recipe: Linguine with Mussels and Dandelion Greens

For some reason we often find ourselves shying away from the seafood section at the grocery store. Particularly with shellfish, there's an intimidation factor that just isn't there with chicken or ste...

Italian Template Recipe: Pasta, Meat, Greens and Cheese

We've been talking about cooking without recipes a lot lately. We're exploring flavors from world cuisines and ingredients that play well together. Another way to approach cooking instinctively is t...

Recipe: Spring Greens Pesto

This post was originally sent to our email subscribers on April 11th. To sign up for our weekly email (not daily as the box indicates) sign up in the column to the left or click here. Faith's post a...

Dinner Quick: Anelletti Pasta with Sausage and Greens

What are you cooking for dinner tonight? Are you casting about for a quick and easy one-bowl meal? Try this one, or a variation on it - it's just pasta, meat, and greens. ...

Recipe: Velvety Broccoli and Feta Pasta

Like our recent recipe for Rich No-Cream Wild Mushroom Pasta Sauce, this pasta sauce is velvety-rich and creamy, plus nubby with flecks of feta cheese. And yet it has very little fat and dairy, aside ...

Food News: New and Improved Spaghetti Tree Released

Now we can all grow our own spaghetti in our backyards! ...

Recipe: Southwest Skillet Ragu

After reading through all the meals you've made so often that they've become permanently committed to memory, we thought we'd share one of our own! This is one of those go-to weeknight meals that we ...

Recipe: Farfalle with Cauliflower and Toasted Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs usually lie like a lazy blanket on top of pasta or casseroles. For this quick dish, we toasted them up in flavored olive oil, tossed them with roasted cauliflower, and let them shine as a ...

Recipe: No-Boil Chunky Cheese Lasagna

We can't believe that winter is almost over and we haven't posted a single recipe for lasagna! This timeless casserole dish is one of our staple comfort foods in any season, honestly, but it feels esp...

Recipe: Rich No-Cream Wild Mushroom Pasta Sauce

This rich, creamy pasta sauce was the result of an experiment. We wanted to make a creamy, mushroom-y pasta topping with no cream. We're trying to watch our diet a little better, and while we were e...

Recipe: Strozzapretti with Pecorino, Prosciutto and Something Green

Zipping through the neighborhood with minutes to spare before friends arrived for an impromptu dinner Friday night, I had only a loose inspiration for a pasta with Cacio e Pepe (cheese and pepper), an...

Recipe: Pasta with Pesto

Mark Bittman's Minimalist column yesterday on pasta and sauce reminded us of this wonderful pasta we had last weekend with some friends. We have one particular friend who is mad for pesto and will e...

Recipe: Israeli Couscous with Chard

Dinner last night - Trader Joe's Harvest Grain Blend, rainbow chard, and a little chicken broth. That's all it takes for this quick and easy dish. It's so healthy we don't even want to think about it ...

Recipe: Lemon Pepper Pasta with Capers

Cream sauce doesn't have to be a rare indulgence; you can have that creamy goodness without going over the top. This delicate sauce relies mostly on chicken or vegetable stock, simmered down into a ...

Recipe: Broccoli and Feta Pasta Salad

We had this warm pasta salad last weekend and it was just the thing for a spring supper, tossed with tangy olives and feta cheese, and snap-tender broccoli. We'd like to make it again this weekend and...

Recipe: Spaghetti Carbonara with Spinach

Recipe: Pasta with Butternut Squash, Bitter Greens and Fresh Mozzarella

With spring nipping at our heels, there's really very litte fresh produce in the markets to inspire innovation in the kitchen. When there's time, this is a great time of year to shift your focus to m...

Recipe: Ridiculously Quick Pasta al Pomodoro

I need you to play along with me, in accepting what follows as a legitimate recipe. It is so basic - nothing new, nothing spectacular, nothing the first tomato farmer couldn't have come up with. Can i...

Recipe: Broccoli Spaghetti Frittata

It can be hard for the nine-to-five set, particularly commuters, to cook a good meal on weeknights. Dining out is great, but only when it's a choice. It's not nice feeling forced to eat out due to lac...

Recipe: Fettucini with Butternut Squash, Sage & Brown Butter

In response to Chris call for a squash recipe for his Brooklyn Brownstone found squash, heres a simple little pasta with sweet butternut and nutty brown butter. It makes a quick busy day dinner a...

Recipe: Penne with Zucchini and Almonds

It started as an attempt to use up some zucchini from the garden, which isn't always the most exciting of tasks. But Jen decided to take the reigns and came up with something quite extraordinary, ins...

Recipe: Goat Cheese and Shrimp Ravioli

Great news: shrimp have moved up on the Blue Ocean Institute's Guide to Ocean Friendly Seafood, and with the news, a craving for shrimp hit me hard. We were having some friends over for Sunday supper...