Pasta Recipes & Meal Ideas

These are simple classics to memorize.

Yes, it is possible.

A big casserole dish filled with baked pasta is the easiest (and tastiest) way to feed all of your family and friends.

Bring on the cheese!

I think we can all agree — there are few things more wonderful in this life than a giant bowl of pasta for dinner.

Make now, eat later.

If you're not making pasta in your Instant Pot, it's time to get started.

Satisfying recipes that are extra portable.

From a bright-pink beet pesto pasta to a creamy Alfredo, here are 11 ways to dress your pasta sans the red sauce.

Time to add frozen tortellini to this week's shopping list.

Here's how I round out pasta night.

Classic comfort food at its very best.

This is our go-to weeknight dinner.

It's basically grown-up mac and cheese and we're good with that.

Spoiler: The noodle hack is a total game-changer.

It's giving Panera soup vibes, only it's way better.

Trust us: This is best (and easiest!) thing you'll cook in your Instant Pot this year.

It's so cozy.

They cook in less than 10 minutes!

It never fails me.

Only three ingredients!

It's time to gild the lily.

It's what comfort food dreams are made of.

Everything is done in the same skillet in this recipe — easy cooking and easy cleanup.

Raise you hand if you agree that every night should be pasta night.

The rice-like pasta is a weeknight superhero.

Want to make pasta, but lack the motivation to do all that mixing and kneading by hand? No problem. If you have a food processor, you can have a batch of pasta dough ready in about two minutes flat. The fast-working action of the food processor blade mixes those eggs into the flour faster than your fingers ever could — and gives the dough a good kneading at the same time. The resulting dough is soft and supple.

Of course Ina has the smartest way to make lasagna ahead!

This creamy, comforting dish is calling your name.

Pro tip: Add extra-creamy burrata as soon as it comes out of the oven.

It’s been a very good chanterelle mushroom season here in the Bay Area this year. I’ve been on many forays with my mushroom club, and I’ve gone to secret collecting spots in the forest with friends. I have been dry sautéeing and drying my chanterelle hauls, and making things like this risotto recipe. The other night, I threw together this easy pasta dish.Orecchiete with Chanterelle, Sage, Walnuts, & Brown ButterIngredients2 cups of orecchiete 1 tbsp.

It's waaay better than baked mac and cheese.

Yes, it is really that quick.

Even people who think they don't like beets will fall in love with this vibrant pesto.

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 eating pasta there was no need to indulge in cream, right? Instead, the bulk of this sauce is white wine, broth, and mushrooms. We don’t use a lot of wild mushrooms – they are expensive, and just a few will do here to give flavor. The result?

When brown butter is involved you know you're in for a treat.

It features four types of cheese and a buttery breadcrumb topping.

Try this simple (yet flavor-packed!) pasta dinner ASAP.

If you asked me 10 years ago after feasting at a trattoria in Florence on fiocchetti alle pere con salsa di taleggio e asparagi that one day I would be able to replicate the experience, I would have laughed in your face. Back then the only thing I knew how to make was frozen pizza. But time has a way of changing us, and that trip to Florence changed me too. Here I am 10 years later, recreating that meal of a lifetime.

Still looking for a Mardi Gras recipe to celebrate the season? Try this creamy crawfish pasta that comes together in a breeze. I just so happened to have some crawfish squirreled away in my freezer; this was a sensational way to use it. Instead of heavy cream, I used half & half and added tomato paste and white wine to make a creamy pasta sauce. I threw an over-the-top crawfish boil for my fiance’s birthday party last year.

The sauce is silky, creamy, and tangy.

Pepperoni pizza meets pasta bake.

Don't head to your next potluck without it.

Like your favorite casserole — just much, much faster.

Forget bringing a pot of water to a boil and roast everything in the oven instead.

Put this one on repeat.

Spaghetti alla Carbonara: When it’s good, it can make your eyes roll back in your head with pleasure. It lurks there, beckoning, batting its eyelashes on Italian menus. When you don’t order it, you usually end up wishing you had. This pasta dish seems easy to make at home, requiring only few ingredients like bacon, eggs, and pasta.

It’s packed with veggies and couldn't be easier.

The classic pasta sauce just got a whole lot easier.

They come together in minutes.

We can’t get enough of this brilliant no-waste trick.

Can there be anything more simple than cooking up a pot of pasta? The only thing you have to do is boil water, right? Well, yes, that’s certainly the basic outline. But there are a few other tricks and helpful hints that will help make your cooking run a little smoother and your pasta taste a little better. This post is specifically about cooking classic dried durum wheat pasta.

You always have a winner with this recipe nearby.

Orzo is the ideal rice-pasta hybrid. Here's what to make with it.

It's a perfect pairing for grilled meat, stews, casseroles, and soups. 

Comforting and quick solutions no matter the night of the week.

More people should be cooking with steelhead trout.

It's our favorite new way to eat Brussels sprouts.

Add these easy dinners to your meal plan.

An easy dinner with flavors straight from New Orleans.

This fresh, vibrant salad deserves to be in your summer rotation.