Pasta Recipes

Salmon manicotti stuffed with pink salmon, broccoli, and cottage cheese, baked in a creamy lemon-dill sauce with Parmesan. A lighter take on stuffed pasta.

Baked spaghetti casserole with ground beef, tomato soup, cream of mushroom soup, green pepper, and melted cheese. Old-school comfort food the whole family will devour.

Lemon-thyme pesto skips the basil for a brighter, herbal twist on the classic. Parsley, pine nuts, fresh lemon, and thyme blend into a sauce ready in 15 minutes for pasta, fish, or chicken.

Fresh green pasta salad tosses spinach spaghetti with asparagus, zucchini, snow peas, mushrooms and cherry tomatoes in a curry-spiked mayo dressing. A vegetable garden in a bowl.

Add some sophistication to your dinners with this scrumptious pasta dish you will love.

Midwest comfort food mash-up: ground beef and stewed tomatoes tossed with elbow macaroni and oregano. Simple, hearty, and ready in under an hour to feed a crowd.

Here is a kind of throw together recipe I came up with: If you are entertaining you can garnish with fresh parsley and serve with a caesar salad, garlic bread and a nice chablis. The vegetables can vary. I've used mushrooms, spinach, cauliflower etc. Grouper works well with this because it has a lot of flavor. I've used fresh tuna and halibut but prefer grouper.

I guess I will have to ditch the craft dinner, because this mac and cheese was actually so easy to make, and it was so much better than those boxed stuff. No comparison.

Turn leftover pasta, rice, meat, and vegetables into a bubbling casserole with a quick homemade white sauce. The ultimate fridge-clearing dinner, ready in an hour.

Crumbled Italian sausage simmered with plum tomatoes and heavy cream, tossed with farfalle. A rich, 30-minute Italian pasta that hits the table fast on busy nights.

This braised onion sauce is rich and buttery, so you don't need much when tossing it with pasta.

Buttery angel hair pasta tossed with crisp-tender broccoli, golden fried elephant garlic, red pepper flakes, and Parmesan. A quick weeknight pasta that's ready in 30 minutes.

Homemade buckwheat pasta made with semolina and buckwheat flour using a pasta machine. A nutty, earthy fresh pasta with rustic Italian character in just a few ingredients.

Layered chili mac and cheese with homemade cheddar sauce, seasoned ground beef, and a crunchy cornflake crumb topping. Baked until bubbly and golden, this casserole feeds a family of six.

Whole roasted chicken rubbed with Szechuan peppercorn, five-spice, coriander, and honey-soy glaze. Served over pasta tossed in the savory pan drippings for a showstopping dinner.

Chicken and spinach linguine in a white wine cream sauce with mushrooms, mozzarella, thyme, and lemon juice. A one-pan pasta dinner topped with Parmesan.