Category: pasta

This Trick for Creamy Pasta Will Change Your Opinion on Cottage Cheese

Cottage cheese has been having a moment, but if you’re still on the fence about it, this light and impossibly creamy pasta is the best introduction. (And if you already love cottage cheese, this will be right up your alley.) Give the cheese a whirl in the food processor with grated Parmesan, lemon zest and…


Summer Spaghetti With Tomatoes and Corn Keeps the Kitchen Cool

This is a recipe I hope you go back to again and again in the heat of the summer. I have relied on this no-fail Seriously Simple dish when it is just too hot to cook. Use whatever pasta you prefer. If you’re someone who prefers a healthier option, try whole wheat pasta or any…


Simplify Your Dinner With Grilled Eggplant and Tomato Pasta

This combination of slightly smoky grilled eggplant and sweet tomatoes is delightful. The eggplant-tomato mixture served over whole-wheat pasta with fresh basil and a bit of salty cheese makes an easy, healthy weeknight dinner. Grilled Eggplant & Tomato Pasta Serves 4 Active Time: 30 minutes Total Time: 30 minutes Ingredients 1 pound plum tomatoes, chopped…


Pasta Alla Norma

View the print-ready version of this recipe.  Why We Love This Recipe Flavor—A Mediterranean recipe with intense, distinctly Italian flavors: tomato, eggplant, basil, and lots of flavor from the salted ricotta. The final taste is unique due to the sweetish flavor of the ripe tomatoes with the contrast of salt from the cheese that will…


Antipasto Pasta Salad Perfect for Memorial Day Weekend (Or Anytime)

By Linda Gassenheimer From Tribune News Service A holiday weekend is coming up! Here’s a quick and easy dinner for the weekend, or anytime. It’s based on an antipasto platter that usually contains cured meats, olives, cheese, assorted pickles and vegetables. Thinking of these ingredients, I created a quick and easy pasta salad. You can…


Blistered Cherry Tomato and Gooey Mozzarella Spaghetti

This is just about the easiest tomato sauce you’ll ever make, and when made with ripe summer tomatoes, the flavor is hard to beat. I love using cherry tomatoes because they require no extra chopping, but you can make this sauce with any tomatoes you have on hand; just slice them into bite-size pieces first….


Roman Restoration: Pasta Carbonara With Sweet Peas

Pasta carbonara is the Romans’ answer to comfort food. It’s composed of a humble trio of ingredients—eggs, cheese, and noodles—which, with the elemental magic of heat and water, alchemize to create a glistening bowl of pasta that’s as restorative as it is comforting. Crispy pancetta is a traditional ingredient in a carbonara, and its rendered…


Celebrating spring with Pike Place Market Pasta-Maker Michela Tartaglia + Recipe

By Bethany Jean Clement From The Seattle Times Seattle—MIchela Tartaglia is the extremely charming proprietor of Pasta Casalinga in Seattle’s landmark Pike Place Market. There, in a tiny space that’s open on one side to the Market’s airy atrium, she and her staff purvey big plates of extremely good pasta, prepared with ingredients that change…


Hundreds of Pounds of Pasta Dumped Near New Jersey Stream

OLD BRIDGE, N.J.—Authorities in a central New Jersey town say they are no longer noodling over the mystery of how hundreds of pounds of pasta were dumped near a stream. Old Bridge Mayor Owen Henry said Friday that the pasta, including spaghetti and macaroni, was cleaned up last week by public works crews, shortly after…


Pappardelle With Artichoke Hearts and Mushrooms Is a Quick Veggie Dinner With Taste of Italy

By Linda Gassenheimer From Tribune News Service Enjoy a little taste of Italy with this quick vegetarian dinner. It’s made with pappardelle. These are large, very broad, flat pasta noodles, similar to wide fettuccine. They originated from the region of Tuscany. Marinated artichoke hearts, meaty mushrooms and fresh tomatoes create a rich sauce that is…