Pasta and Noodle Recipes & Ideas
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This Spinach and Artichoke Ravioli Bake Is a Cheesy Dream
Kitchn’s Delicious Links column highlights recipes we’re excited about from the bloggers we love. Follow along every weekday as we post our favorites. Baked ravioli is a next-level casserole for anyone who loves cheese and carbs. We’ve all seen cheese-stuffed pasta, and pasta baked in cheese, but this is cheese-stuffed pasta that’s been baked into a cheesy spinach-and-artichoke casserole. It’s galaxy-brain stuff.
Feb 4, 2019
These Creamy Pesto Shells Will Be a Family Favorite
Kitchn’s Delicious Links column highlights recipes we’re excited about from the bloggers we love. Follow along every weekday as we post our favorites. Pesto is one of those rare, iconic dishes that’s made with just a handful of simple ingredients but is way more than the sum of its parts.
Jan 31, 2019
French Onion Pasta Is the Best Thing You’ll Eat This Week
Kitchn’s Delicious Links column highlights recipes we’re excited about from the bloggers we love. Follow along every weekday as we post our favorites. A bowl of steaming-hot French onion soup is one of the most luxurious, comforting things you can eat. If you love French onion soup (and who doesn’t?), you’re definitely going to want to try this French onion pasta.
Dec 31, 2018
Tuscan Chicken Macaroni and Cheese Is a One-Pot Wonder
Kitchn’s Delicious Links column highlights recipes we’re excited about from the bloggers we love. Follow along every weekday as we post our favorites. I’m such a purist about macaroni and cheese that I don’t even like calling it “mac and cheese.” The abbreviation just feels wrong, like shouting, “Hi, Liz!” at the Queen of England.
Dec 28, 2018
This Simple Veggie Pasta with Parmesan Sauce Wins Dinner
Kitchn’s Delicious Links column highlights recipes we’re excited about from the bloggers we love. Follow along every weekday as we post our favorites. I used to avoid cooking squash, because it seemed like way too much work to cut into one. One time I bought four little kabocha squashes, and I left them sitting on the table so long everybody genuinely forgot they weren’t a centerpiece — even me!
Dec 14, 2018
Broccoli Sauce Pasta Is the Best Way to Eat More Vegetables
Kitchn’s Delicious Links column highlights recipes we’re excited about from the bloggers we love. Follow along every weekday as we post our favorites. After Thanksgiving and the whole general holiday eating period around it, I can practically hear my body screaming, “Vegetables! Give me vegetables!
Nov 28, 2018
This One-Pot White Chicken Lasagna Soup Is Pure Comfort Food
Kitchn’s Delicious Links column highlights recipes we’re excited about from the bloggers we love. Follow along every weekday as we post our favorites. Several years ago a newlywed Prince William asked Giada de Laurentiis how to make better lasagna, because he said he kept trying to make it for wife Kate Middleton, but his lasagna never turned out correctly.
Nov 23, 2018
You Should Make Creamy Beef and Shells for Dinner Tonight
Kitchn’s Delicious Links column highlights recipes we’re excited about from the bloggers we love. Follow along every weekday as we post our favorites. Pasta is probably my favorite thing to cook for dinner. I like to stand and fuss over the sauce, and I especially love when the recipe says to adjust seasonings “to taste,” because that means I basically have carte blanche to eat my whole dinner standing over the pan, before it ever gets to the table.
Nov 12, 2018
This Lemony Veggie Pasta Is Sprinkled with Almond “Bacon”
Kitchn’s Delicious Links column highlights recipes we’re excited about from the bloggers we love. Follow along every weekday as we post our favorites. Although we’ve been experiencing an oppressive heatwave for over a month straight, for some strange reason I’m craving pasta.
Aug 9, 2018
Fork vs. Spoon: What’s the Right Way to Eat Mac & Cheese?
We all know the best place for macaroni and cheese is in one’s mouth, but how we get it there is a matter of some debate. Do you use a fork or a spoon? The nation appears to be divided. There are YouTube videos and Reddit threads devoted to the “right” way to eat macaroni and cheese, and now cult-favorite brand Annie’s has conducted a nationwide survey to figure out what utensil people prefer to use when eating one of the most delicious dishes on the planet.
Jul 17, 2018
Make These Zucchini Lasagna Roll-Ups for a Low-Carb Dinner
Kitchn’s Delicious Links column highlights recipes we’re excited about from the bloggers we love. Follow along every weekday as we post our favorites. Ever since I got the chance to chat with Ali Maffucci, the zoodle-loving founder of Inspiralized, I’ve been racking my brain for zucchini’s next big break. There must be at least one mind-blowingly revolutionary use for summer squash that we just haven’t discovered yet, right? Right?
Jun 21, 2018
Tips for Mastering Weeknight Pasta from 10 Pro Home Cooks
These are the game-changers that will give pasta night the boost you didn't know it needed.
May 22, 2018
How To Clean a KitchenAid Pasta Attachment
Making your own pasta might be one of the most rewarding things you can DIY instead of buy. My sister and her husband do it, and man — there is a difference between what they make and what I bring home in a box from the store! But if you have a KitchenAid pasta attachment, you know how important it is to keep it clean. And that you’re definitely not supposed to soak the attachment in water or run it through the dishwasher!
May 11, 2018
Make This One-Skillet Sausage & Kale Gnocchi Tonight
When your starch, protein, and veggie all cook together in one skillet, there’s no excuse not to make dinner — no matter how tired you are or how badly you want to order takeout. Take this gnocchi with sausage and kale, for instance: It all cooks in one skillet and can be on your table in 30 minutes. What are you waiting for? Now, for the record, just because this dish has kale in it doesn’t mean it’s totally virtuous.
Mar 21, 2018
This One-Pot Chicken Lemon Pasta Is a Weeknight Wonder
Quick, easy, delicious dinners: We all want them, we all need them. There are so many recipes online that promise to deliver on all three of these things, and fail to actually do so. Let me convince you why this one-pot creamy chicken lemon pasta from Spoonful of Flavor will not fail you. Go ahead and pick up the short list of ingredients for this recipe at the grocery store tonight. It’s quick and easy: This is a true one-pot recipe.
Mar 8, 2018
Make This Creamy Chicken & Couscous Skillet Meal ASAP
Still searching for what to make for dinner tonight? How does juicy, golden-brown chicken, nestled in perfectly fluffy couscous, all simmered in a thyme-scented cream sauce sound? Oh, and did I mention there’s bacon? Yeah, you’re gonna wanna bookmark this one.
Mar 6, 2018
This One-Pot Chili Cheese Pasta Is a Weeknight Wonder
I have yet to hear anyone exclaim from the rooftops with passion and gusto that washing dishes is their most favorite activity of all time. This delicious chili pasta recipe solves all of our dish-washing distaste because — you guessed it — it comes together in one pot on the stove. Your sponge will thank you!
Feb 6, 2018
You Have to See How This Beautiful Pasta Is Made
For the last few years, the folks over at Barilla have held a tasty competition where they see who can come up with the most innovative pasta design. As you might know, how a noodle or pasta shape is made can affect how it tastes, feels in your mouth, and holds onto sauce. Italian grandmas would be ecstatic if they only knew their handmade craft has been turned into something so, so cool. Want to see how it works?
Nov 10, 2017
What Everyone’s Missing About That $110 Box of Dolce & Gabbana Pasta
Are you looking for the perfect gift for that hard-to-shop-for person on your list? Sure you are. We all are! Well, Dolce & Gabbana might have you covered. Just in time for the holidays, the fashion label is releasing a tin of pasta that contains four different varieties in a cool, collectible tin for $110. They’re only making 1,000 pieces available in the U.S.
Nov 10, 2017
This Pretty Pink Pasta Changes Colors Before Your Eyes
Science is a big part of cooking and baking, but sometimes we’re so focused on getting that 30-minute meal on the table after a crazy-busy day at work that we lose our sense of childlike wonder in the kitchen. But this pretty-in-pink pasta is here to remind you of it. With some red cabbage and lemon juice, you can watch this simple fettuccine dish change color right before your eyes.
Oct 20, 2017
Twitter Is Really Upset with Nigella Lawson’s Carbonara Recipe
Authentic Italian carbonara is a pasta dish made with a few simple ingredients: eggs, hard cheese like Parmigiano and Pecorino, bacon, and black pepper. It’s pretty hard to mess up, right? Well, recently celebrity chef and cookbook author Nigella Lawson took to Twitter to share her take on the classic and people were not very happy about it. As her #RecipeOfTheDay, Lawson shared how to make “delicious Spaghetti alla Carbonara.
Jul 7, 2017
This Chicken Piccata Is Made in the Slow Cooker
Our love for the slow cooker here at Kitchn will never die. You really can’t beat the convenience of throwing a bunch of ingredients in, walking away while it does its thing, and then coming back to a cooked meal ready and waiting for you. Here, the trusty appliance helps you get chicken piccata — pasta included — on the table. The slow cooker saves dinner again!
May 15, 2017
Recipe: Gnocchi with Spinach, Bacon, and Blue Cheese
If the thought of crispy bacon and the pungent bite of blue cheese makes you smile with delight, then this recipe belongs in your meal plan. File it under “pasta night” and, most importantly, nights you’re craving something really delicious and comforting but have about 30 minutes to pull dinner together.
May 8, 2017
You Should Really Make Pasta from Scratch with Your Kids
I cook and bake with my two kids regularly, everything from weeknight dinners to the more advanced sugar cookies during the holidays and cakes for their birthdays, but I recently had a cooking-with-my-kids experience that was so revolutionary, so satisfying, and just plain fun that I have to tell you about it. Five years into this parenthood thing, and way longer in the cooking and eating business, you’d think I would have thought to make pasta from scratch with my kids sooner.
Apr 29, 2017
Our Favorite Way to Upgrade Mac and Cheese with a Kick
Here’s an instant way to add depth to your boxed mac and cheese. It’s an upgrade that will not only give it a spicy kick, but also sour, umami notes. Yes, I’m talking about kimchi. Kimchi is potent stuff, and that’s exactly why we love it in instant mac and cheese. Often the boxed stuff can fall flat — it’s only cheese and milk and starch, after all — and a little lift can really go a long way.
Jan 18, 2017
Recipe: Post-Thanksgiving Stuffed Shells
This seasonal twist on classic stuffed shells keeps the tender cooked pasta, the ricotta, and the stringy, melted mozzarella cheese, but ditches traditional filling for the flavors of Thanksgiving. And we mean that literally! These shells are stuffed with stuffing, roasted vegetables, and even bits of leftover turkey. If you love a next-day turkey sandwich, you have to try this quirky twist on Thanksgiving leftovers.
Nov 25, 2016
Hack Your Ramen with Butter and Chile Flakes
If what you crave is serious comfort with a kick, a pat of butter and a sprinkle of chile flakes will take you there. Think of the comfort you get from plain buttered noodles — it’s even better when savory broth and a bit of spice is involved. The richness from the butter complements and balances the spice from the chile flakes for an instant ramen experience that’s just a little more luxurious. Prepare the instant ramen according to the instructions on the package.
Oct 12, 2016
13 Delicious Dessert Lasagnas You Need to Know About
You might have heard of dessert pizza, but what about dessert lasagna?
Sep 26, 2016
How To Make Eggplant Noodles
Consider eggplant noodles a short-and-sweet introduction to eggplant. These noodles don’t require a spiralizer, they don’t need to be salted (as some would argue all eggplant does), and they cook quickly. They also utilize one of eggplants often bemoaned qualities — they are incredibly absorbent. These noodles will soak up any sauce they are tossed with, becoming even more flavorful.
Jul 26, 2016
More than Just Pasta: 10 Cacio e Pepe Recipes
Cacio e pepe — a simple Italian pasta dish made with butter, black pepper, and a salty, nutty cheese like Pecorino or Parmesan — is comfort food at its finest. As if by magic, the few humble ingredients transform into something truly spectacular. From traditional cacio e pepe to more unique takes on the dish, here are 10 recipes that showcase this beloved Italian staple. We took the concept of cacio e pepe and turned it on its head with these savory cookies.
Mar 22, 2016
Recipe: The Kitchn Cookbook’s Cold Peanut Sesame Noodles with Pan-Seared Chicken
When I was 17 and an ardent vegetarian (I’ve since recovered), my good friend Allison introduced me to soba noodles. These nutty, chewy, buckwheat strands cooked up faster than pasta and were delicious with a quick sauce of rice vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, and minced ginger. I was doing much of my grocery shopping at Asian markets at the time and buying soba noodles by the armful. But then I found peanut sauce and my soba noodles took on a whole new, far more delicious life.
Jan 20, 2016
5 Surprising Ways to Snack on Lasagna Noodles
Lasagna is my kitchen superhero. When faced with a busy Tuesday or an unexpected table of 20, this dish always saves the day. With simple staple items on hand (noodles, canned sauce, cheese), you can throw together a satisfying meal with very little time or effort. Keep it totally vegetarian or add meat, spice as desired, and then let the oven finish the job. But guess what?
Oct 14, 2015
You Need This One-Skillet Breakfast Pasta in Your Life
Some mornings call for quick, light breakfasts — smoothies, yogurt with fresh fruit, a granola bar on your drive to work — but once the weekend rolls around, all bets are off. Next time you are looking for something a little more luxurious — a stick-to-your-ribs kind of breakfast — make this one-skillet pasta with bacon and eggs.
Sep 14, 2015
What’s the Best Way to Serve Pasta Evenly?
Q: I’m a lifelong pasta fiend, and like many cooks, I keep Junk-from-the-Fridge Pasta in my regular rotation. However, I have always had trouble with the last step: tossing the pasta and sauce together to get that nice, even distribution of pasta, sauce, and other ingredients (veg, meat, etc.). Somebody gets a plate of mostly toppings, and somebody gets a plate of lightly sauced pasta, but no one gets the middle ground.
Jun 1, 2015
This Zucchini Noodle and Kalette Recipe Is the Definition of Trendy
Noodles made out of vegetables? So hot right now. The child of Brussels sprouts and kalecoolest In case you need a primer on kalettes (how? why?), make sure to read Faith’s post about them last year Besides actually making the zucchini noodles, this recipe is pretty straight-forward. You cook the sausage, make the super simple sauce, sauté the kalettes, and serve it all together over the noodles.
Apr 29, 2015
Weeknight Meals Are Made for Meatballs and Orzo
This simple riff on a the classic spaghetti and meatballs is an easy meal you can make on any given weeknight. There’s a ton of flavor in the sausage meatballs, great texture with the orzo and sundried tomatoes, and some hearty greens to bind the whole thing together. I like that this recipe doesn’t require a lot of pots and pans to make, too. Besides cooking the orzo in a pot, you really only need one pan to get the whole thing to come together. Makes doing dishes a lot easier.
Feb 19, 2015
5 Tips to Turn Leftover Soup into a Great Pasta Sauce
Having a pot of soup around means that you have a great meal secret weapon. It doesn’t take that much more time to make a big pot than a little pot, leaving you with lots of soup to stash away in the fridge or freezer when you need a quick meal that reheats well. But sometimes that big pot of soup is, well, big. Big enough that after a couple of meals, you’re starting to get tired of it. Or perhaps you have just a small amount left but it’s not enough to make a full meal.
Jan 27, 2015
A Pasta Dish For Fall: Sausage, Fennel & Eggplant Rigatoni
I’ve been craving a lot of pasta recipes lately, especially recipes that use rigatoni. I love the way the ridges of the pasta help support the sauce and flavor of any dish. This recipe from Healthy Recipe Ecstasy uses interesting ingredients that sound highly flavorful and satisfying. It’s a perfect companion for a Friday night. This pasta dish has three main ingredients outside of the rigatoni: sausage, fennel and eggplant. It’s also smothered in tomato and cheese.
Oct 17, 2014
Skillet Lasagna, 4 Ways
Let’s talk about lasagna — the easy way. Lasagna at its most time-consuming is a labor of love, made with homemade sauce, slow-cooked meat, and perhaps Mama’s handmade noodles. This is a treat, but it doesn’t mean that you can’t also do it quicker from time to time. These four skillet lasagnas show us how. These four skillet lasagnas get creative.
Sep 30, 2014
Mother Nature’s Little Joke on Pasta: Spaghetti Squash
Spaghetti squash is a cylinder-shaped hard winter squash that ranges in color from pale yellow to canary yellow. When you cut one open, it has seeds inside and looks like most other hard squashes — so why is it called spaghetti squash? How spaghetti squash got its name is actually pretty obvious. When you cook the squash, the flesh develops threads that resemble spaghetti, and it’s long enough that you can twirl them around your fork. It’s often used as a substitute for pasta.
Sep 15, 2014
Help Me Find a Non-Tomato Italian Sauce
Q: I have always made a great, simple tomato sauce based on roasting tomatoes, hot peppers, onion and garlic in the oven at 350°F for an hour, and then simmering the puree of the roasted veggies with a teabag full of Italian spices and a cup of chicken stock. It’s rich and savory and very spicy and a little sweet and I love it.
Aug 28, 2014
Recipe: BBQ Chicken & Macaroni Salad
There comes a point in summer when I start getting tired of all the goopy, mayonnaise-thick side salads that are standard fare at every cook-out and picnic. I wanted something a little different to bring to the table on a recent summer excursion, so I thought we’d perk up a bowl of traditional macaroni salad with barbecue sauce. Oh. My. Yes. Why haven’t I tried this before? I first tried making this salad with just barbecue sauce by itself, but that was a bit overwhelming.
Jul 15, 2014
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Recipe: Orecchiette with Broccoli Rabe & Sausage
You pasta-lovers out there may have already known that “Orecchiette” translates as “little ears.” But you might not know that the shape is the signature pasta of the humble farmland of Puglia (the ‘heel’ part of Italy’s ‘boot’). Dome-shaped Orechiette is perfect for scooping up fresh Puglian veggies and hearty sauces.
Jul 8, 2014
4 Ways to Get Your Fill of Macaroni Salad This Summer
Picnics, summer gatherings in your backyard, grilling in the park. All of these occasions require at least one macaroni salad to accompany all of those burgers and BBQ. Need some inspiration? These four bloggers have enough macaroni salad recipes to keep you entertaining all summer long. Do you have a go-to macaroni salad for summer? I like something with lots of vegetables and with minimum dairy so it can sit out a bit longer.
Jul 1, 2014
Recipe: Ricotta Gnocchi with Peas and Herbed-Lemon Butter
While I love being in the kitchen, there are times when I just need a quick but nice meal. I have a list of these meals that I keep tucked away for when company shows up unexpectedly or I want a bit of an extra-fancy feel to our average daily meal. Polenta, ravioli, and especially gnocchi tend to be my go-to’s because the meals are filling, beautiful, and easily adapted to what I have on hand at the time.
Apr 28, 2014
Slow Cooker Recipe: Cheesy “Baked” Spinach & Mozzarella Rigatoni
Want to throw all of your ingredients into a pot, walk away, and return to a cheesy, piping hot dinner? Yep, me too. A slow cooker makes easy work of “baked” pasta, minus the bake. To be honest I’ve never really quite understood the whole slow cooker phenomenon.
Oct 21, 2013
250 Pasta Shapes You Should Know: Pop Chart Lab’s Plethora of Pasta Permutations
Last week, while out for dinner at a little Italian restaurant in New York’s East Village, our table of eight gazed at the last item on the chalkboard menu with a collective blank stare: “Cencioni Bolognese.” Nobody, myself included, had ever heard of this pasta shape. Described by the server as, “larger than orecchiette, almost like a potato chip,” my curiosity was piqued. The result was surprisingly delicious.
Oct 14, 2013
Spring Recipe: Carrot Ribbon Fettuccine
I love May when all the seasonal farmers markets start to open. For the next 4 weeks, I’ll be visiting the markets weekly near where I live in Northern California and buy ingredients to make a simple, vegetarian dish to share with you. This week there were gorgeous rainbow carrots at the market, along with lemons from a neighboring table. A fresh veggie fettuccine was definitely on the menu.
May 7, 2013
Healthy Cold Weather Comfort Food: Sweet Potato Ravioli With Kale Pesto
The cold mid-winter weather always brings out my nesting side. I gravitate towards anything that’ll make me feel warm and cozy: hot coffee, nourishing soups, warm bread and butter. But this time of year I’m still trying — trying, not always succeeding — to keep things light. (December was pretty indulgent!) Enter this delicious sweet potato ravioli from Laura of The First Mess. It hits all the right notes: creamy, filling, comforting, and all without using any dairy.
Jan 30, 2013
Recipe: Fettuccine with Roasted Butternut Squash, Brown Butter & Sage
Here’s a simple little fall-time pasta dish with sweet roasted butternut squash and nutty brown butter. It’s one of those dishes that makes even a weeknight meal feel special, especially if you splurge for fresh fettuccine noodles and a nice bottle of wine. Serve it with a salad of bitter greens, apples, and walnuts on the side, and dinner is ready.
Oct 22, 2012
How To Make a Chalkboard Menu Board
My wife and I usually meal plan for the week on Sunday mornings. We get a stack of magazines, I pull up a recipe planning site on my iPad, and we pick items that are simple and drool-worthy. With our selections made we go grocery shopping, often returning home with a pile of fresh produce. About midweek, though, we’d forget some of our recipe decisions and leave our veggies to veg-out beyond edibility. We needed a more prominent visual reminder. We needed a chalkboard meal plan menu!
Aug 30, 2012
Recipe: Couscous With Chickpeas, Fennel, and Citrus
Have you ever caramelized fennel? Browning this vegetable in a skillet transforms it into something completely different from its crisp, raw state; all but a trace of the anise flavor melts away and the fennel becomes tender, mellow, and sweet. Caramelized fennel melds perfectly with the textures and flavors of nutty chickpeas, succulent olives, orange, and lemon – and spooned over couscous, it makes a quick-cooking, bright yet hearty dish.
Nov 2, 2011
How to Make Fettuccine Alfredo
Fettuccine alfredo is one of those dishes that is somehow more than the sum of its parts. Of course, when those parts are primarily butter, cream, cheese, and pasta, it’s extremely hard to go wrong. There are dozens of slightly different ways to make this dish. Parmesan and butter all on their own are traditional, but a splash of cream does have the advantage of making the alfredo extra delicious (not to mention indulgent).
Oct 13, 2011
Dried Pasta Stored in Glass Jars
On Monday, we looked at repurposing pasta sauce jars for storing all sorts of things around the house. Now, here’s a look at the inverse: using glass jars for storing pasta:We always just store pasta in the box it comes in from the store. Some of these examples had us worried about air-tightness (we’re looking at you, apothecary jars) but they can’t be any worse than the opened boxes we use!How do you store dried pasta in your home?
Oct 12, 2011
Quick Recipe: Creamy Lemon Pasta with Spinach & Peas
This light creamy pasta comes together in fewer than 15 minutes and you’ll be amazed at its flavor. Bright lemon combines with deep garlic and a hint of heat to transform spinach, peas, and, of course, pasta. The key in this dish lies in simmering cream with garlic and red pepper flakes. It infuses the cream with deep flavor which cooks into the spinach as well. And what could be easier than throwing in a few frozen peas to add a little something extra?
Oct 11, 2011
Martha Stewart’s Macaroni & Cheese: The Ultimate Recipe?
Homemade macaroni and cheese is almost always a Good Thing, but is Martha Stewart’s recipe perhaps the best of all? Food52 has declared it a “genius recipe” One of the key elements is the mornay sauce that surrounds and permeates the pasta as it bakes. Flour, butter and milk are cooked into a béchamel to which grated sharp cheddar and Gruyere are added, resulting in a rich, creamy sauce that won’t break down during baking.
Oct 10, 2011
Back to School Recipe: The Ultimate Mac & Mornay
Wow. Have your ever had a gastronomic moment when you know you’re eating the best version of a particular dish? Eyes light up, noshing sounds commence and belly sighs exhale as fellow diners exclaim, “No THIS is the best!”, “Oh my God!” and “Praise Mac & Mornay!” This happened recently and thank goodness I had my camera and notebook to document and jot down the ultimate mac and mornay recipe.
Aug 24, 2011
Is My Frozen Baked Ziti Still Safe to Cook and Eat?
Q: I prepared an extra pan of baked ziti on Christmas Day 2010. I did not need to use it, so I covered it in foil, and put it in the freezer where it still remains. The tray of baked ziti has cooked pasta, cooked tomato meat sauce with sausage, meatballs, and pork chops, and fresh ricotta and mozzarella cheese, as well as grated locatelli romano.I am concerned about the safety of defrosting and baking this dish, as it was prepared over four months ago.
May 12, 2011
Quick Recipe: Ricotta Dumplings with Chèvre & Herbs
Last night I made one of my favorite dinner-in-a-flash recipes: Ricotta dumplings. This is a lightning-quick recipe, easy to mix up, and easy to make for a crowd, too. I tossed these pillowy, chewy little dumpling squares with a bit of butter, soft goat cheese, and herbs fresh from the garden. They were ready in 15 minutes!This recipe is based on my earlier recipe for ricotta spaetzle. I love these so much; they are ready almost instantly.
May 4, 2011
Date Night Dinner: Open-Faced Ravioli with Egg and Wilted Greens
Date night dinners need not be complicated to be fancy. Take this recipe: lasagna noodles trimmed into squares make elegant “open-faced” raviolis. With poached eggs nestled between the layers, some wilted greens, and a simple sauce of brown butter and lemon, this very simple dish becomes a date night win.Greens, garlic, and eggs are one of our very favorite flavor combinations. The bitterness of the greens is tempered by the rich egg yolk, while the garlic brings it all together.
Apr 21, 2011
Recipe: Pomelo Couscous
With all the citrus that grows here in Southern California, we’re always searching for new ways to use these fruits – French toast, roasted vegetables, dust… We often add citrus zest to couscous dishes and this time we thought, why not add the juicy segments? Sweet pomelo was the perfect fruit for this experiment, and the result is a dish we can’t get enough of!
Apr 20, 2011
Recipe: Basil Ricotta Tortelloni with a Rustic Tomato Sauce
I had the privilege of learning this recipe from a very seasoned chef in Italy during a cooking class at his family restaurant. It was no surprise that he made creating this dish from scratch look simple. But after a few attempts (and mishaps) in my own kitchen, what surprises me now is that it’s something I can put together without looking at instructions.
Mar 23, 2011
Recipe: Goat Cheese and Swiss Chard Pasta Casserole
This past weekend in San Francisco, the weather forecast was a bold one. Each news station insisted snow was on its way. People dug out their winter coats. Kids prepared for snow-man marathons. And I made a very fine casserole&mdash one with healthy whole-wheat pasta, Swiss chard, and goat cheese. It was definitely a casserole occasion as it hasn’t snowed in San Francisco since the 1970’s.
Mar 2, 2011
Squash-Baked Mac and Cheese with Amaretti CookiesRecipe Review
Yep, you read it right. This mac n cheese has a crumbly, sweet, cookie topping—and it makes the dish (it’s so good). But before you scroll straight to the recipe, read our notes. Because whoa, there is one major mistake in there.We got this recipe from Martha Stewart—a consistently foolproof source—but it is originally by chef Todd English.
Dec 9, 2010
David Tanis’ Wild Mushroom Ragout with Ziti
Heart of the ArtichokeTanis’ own kitchen ritualsDavid calls himself a restaurant chef that prefers to cook at home. Chez Panisse allows him to bring the best of home cooking to the tables there in the six months a year he cooks at the restaurant. The rest of the year he, presumably, is cooking up the dishes in this book (all beautifully and simply photographed by Christopher Hirsheimer of Canal House Cooking).
Dec 8, 2010
Quick Dinner Recipe: Pumpkin & Ricotta Pasta Casserole
Everyone loves a good casserole, right? The key word here is good. We’ve all had goopy, unappetizing messes inflicted upon us in the name of casseroles, but that really should be the deviation — not the norm. I love casseroles — the good ones. In fact, I just spent a year writing an entire book with 225 recipes for modern, fresh casseroles. This recipe isn’t in the book, but it’s very much in the spirit of things.
Oct 29, 2010
Recipe: Squash, Bacon, and Goat Cheese Pasta with Basil
This recipe was inspired by one of our favorite vegetable gratins—a combination of summer ingredients that you should eat now, before Fall arrives and you switch to pastas like this. (P.S. We’ve also made this dish without the bacon, and it’s just as good.)This pasta is a cinch to put together. But you can make it even easier by caramelizing the onion and cooking the bacon ahead of time.
Sep 10, 2010
How To Make Pasta Like a Pro
It’s Italian Week here at The Kitchn, so we’re pumping you full of Italian recipes and other inspiration to make you feel like a real Italian cook. Of course, that means pasta. Maybe you’ve been rolling your own for some time, but have you experimented with shapes? I got turned on to the hand-crank pasta machine years ago, but it was only recently that I figured out how to make some of the fancy-pants shapes like rigatoni and bucatini from scratch.
Sep 9, 2010
Easy Recipe: Roasted Tomato Sauce with Garlic
We have given you a lot of tomato sauce recipes — we really, really love simple tomato sauces, whether they’re made with fresh tomatoes or canned. But I want to revisit one more easy sauce (and we have an even simpler sauce for you coming tomorrow). Lately, my favorite way to make tomato sauce is in the oven. The flavor — oh, it’s so much better! A long, slow roast for your tomatoes lets their flavor slowly concentrate into a chunky sauce.
Sep 9, 2010
Recipe: Rapini With Orecchiette And White Beans
We’ve had a string of cold and rainy spring days, so we’re craving something warm and comforting, yet still seasonal. Enter rapini – the bitter greens are a perfect match for white beans a little pasta in a dish that’s not the most beautiful, but is quite delicious.Rapini is nearing the end of its peak growing season in the northern hemisphere. We found beautiful bunches on opening day of one local Chicago farmers’ market.
May 14, 2010
Quick Supper Recipe: Nutty Farro Pasta with Edamame Pesto
You’ve just come home from a long, hard day. Exhausted. Bedraggled. Famished. Popping a pizza in the oven is one rather unhealthy way to go but this pasta dish, with its minimal effort and huge flavor payback, is most decidedly another. In the amount of time it takes to boil water, you can have a perfect bowl of nutty, chewy pasta topped with a bright green, vibrant sauce.
Apr 21, 2010
What’s the Best Way To Reheat Cream-Based Pasta Sauces?
Q: What is the best way to reheat cream-based leftovers like fettucine alfredo? My attempts for reheating dishes like these have resulted in oily, separated messes.I have the Barefoot Contessa’s lemon fusilli with arugula leftovers waiting for me in my fridge. Is there any hope?Sent by CarolynEditor: Carolyn, that recipe looks delicious!
Mar 30, 2010