Pasta recipes

Freezer manicotti: a make-ahead Italian pasta dinner with ricotta-stuffed tubes, spaghetti sauce, and mozzarella. Pipe, assemble, freeze, and bake straight from the freezer on a busy night.

If you're looking for something different for lunch, try this scrumptious dish that will have you making it time and again.

Margarita shrimp with fettuccine: tequila-lemon-marinated shrimp dipped in egg and flour, seared, and served over pasta with a lemon-ginger-wine butter sauce.

Try this different but tasty pasta salad made with mandarin oranges, pineapple and whipped topping.

Silky fettuccine tossed with crispy bacon and eggs that cook from pasta heat alone. Classic Roman carbonara ready in 20 minutes with creamy sauce and no cream.

Easy calzones made with crescent roll dough stuffed with Italian sausage, mushrooms, peppers, and melted mozzarella. These pizza pockets are family-friendly and ready in an hour.

Baked macaroni and cheese with two kinds of cheddar layered in three stages for deep cheese flavor in every bite. Old-fashioned American comfort casserole serves 8 in 40 minutes.

An orzo pasta crust filled with ricotta, spinach, and nutmeg, topped with spaghetti sauce and melted mozzarella. A creative twist on savory pie that kids and adults both devour.

Sausage manicotti stuffs ricotta, browned Italian sausage, mozzarella, and Parmesan into pasta tubes, then bakes under tomato sauce and melted cheese. One-pan Italian-American comfort baked in 35 minutes.

Lasagne rollups with ricotta, mozzarella, Parmesan, and spinach filling wrapped in individual noodles and baked in pasta sauce. An elegant twist on traditional layered lasagna.

A simple but delicious dish that is perfect for a quick lunch or dinner.

Homemade tortelloni filled with sheep's milk ricotta, parsley, and Parmigiano-Reggiano, finished with brown butter and crispy sage. The classic Italian pasta done from scratch.

Make the world's best lasagna that's both healthy and tantalizing when it comes to flavor.

Pesto carbonara combining fresh basil and garlic with a classic egg-cream-Parmesan carbonara sauce over vermicelli. Crispy bacon and the heat of the pasta gently cook the egg mixture.

Linguine carbonara with crispy bacon, Parmesan, and a silky egg and cream sauce tossed hot so every strand is coated. A rich, comforting Italian pasta classic.

Mock ravioli casserole: layers of butterfly pasta, a meaty tomato sauce, and a herby spinach-egg-parmesan filling. All the flavor of ravioli without rolling a single sheet of dough.