Pasta/4 recipes

Whole wheat pasta with broccolini and radish gets tossed in a sherry-orange vinaigrette and crowned with creamy feta. A bright vegetarian pasta salad equally good warm or chilled the next day.

Tomato vegetable broth with carrots, parsnips, turnip, celery, and an onion stuck with cloves simmered slow with fresh herbs. A clean, deeply flavored homemade vegetable stock that beats anything from a box.

Spaghetti with lentils in a slow-simmered tomato sauce with red wine, basil, oregano, and thyme. A hearty vegetarian pasta dinner with protein-rich lentils instead of meat.

Italian pasta with winter squash and potatoes cooked together in one pot, finished in a garlic and chile skillet with starchy pasta water for a creamy sauce.

Cold sesame noodles with a creamy peanut butter and sesame oil sauce, lightly spiced with hot sauce and soy. Quick lunch or potluck pasta salad ready in 15 minutes.

Cold noodle salad with tender shrimp, crisp snow peas, and luscious ginger-garlic dressing. This Asian-inspired pasta salad is ready in 20 minutes, perfect for lunch or potlucks.

Loaded vegetables minestrone packs cannellini beans, zucchini, carrots, celery, cabbage, potatoes, green beans, and elbow macaroni into a beef-stock tomato broth. Classic Italian comfort soup, feeds 10.

Soupe au pistou, a Provencal vegetable soup with white beans, potatoes, pasta, and a fresh basil-garlic-olive oil pistou stirred in at the table. France's answer to Italian minestrone.

Chinese Chicken Pasta Salad with Soy Peanut Butter Dressing recipe

So easy to make, and it was delicious. I used fresh tomatoes that were growing in my backyard. The dish was refreshing and flavourful. Have added it to my recipe box. Now I have another way to cook my garden fresh tomatoes.

Summer bean and basil soup is a classic Provençal soupe au pistou. White beans, leeks, potatoes, zucchini, green beans, and macaroni in a light broth, served with a fresh basil-garlic pistou sauce on top.

Mom's green noodles: egg noodles tossed in a parsley-butter-sour cream sauce with Parmesan, Romano, and fresh garlic. A bright, herby family pasta recipe in under 30 minutes.

Stracci pasta tossed with eight fresh herbs, extra-virgin olive oil, Romano cheese, and chopped tomatoes. An Italian herb pasta where the uncooked herb sauce is the star.

Pumpkin ravioli soup, a silky sage-and-thyme pumpkin broth ladled over plump cheese ravioli and dusted with cinnamon. A cozy fall bowl that comes together in about half an hour.

Your family will be none the wiser when you offer up this vegetarian creamy “mac and cheese”.

Peasant-style spaghetti with sauteed fresh tomatoes, minced prosciutto, garlic, and oregano tossed together in under 25 minutes. Finished with Parmesan and parsley.