Pasta & Noodles
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Pasta With Pesto
Pesto Pasta
Toasted walnuts (or pine nuts), a fistful of fresh basil, Parmesan, garlic and olive oil is all you need for a simple and practically perfect pesto that tastes like the best of summer.
First date Pasta with Clams
My friend shared this with me, perfect for a first time dinner date as you can cook while talking and the pasta sauce is done while the pasta boils. It's also ridiculously easy but seems much more complicated/ professional!
Garlic Scape & Basil Pesto
I am part of a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and this week, I recieved one of my favorite ingredients, Garlic Scapes! They are actually the plant greens of garlic and only come around a few weeks out of the year! They are insanely delicious with their light garlic and earthy flavor and make for an amazing pesto. I served mine on spaghetti with pan roasted tomatoes. My recent batch included a mix of pine nuts, walnuts and marcona almonds which were all in my pantry and was devine! I also froze some for a great quick crostini when guests come over topped with Burrata cheese.
Orecchiette with Spicy Sausage and Ramps
A simple spring dish, whipped together in half an hour, this pasta gets a meaty kick from the sausage, and a mellow sweetness from sauteed ramps. Feel free to use young leeks if you can't find ramps.
Orzo and eggs
So, it's late at night, you just got home, you're tired, you're hungry, most of all you're lazy, but you don't really have much to cook with. That was how I felt when I came up with this recipe, but with just a few ingredients that you most likely already have (because who has time to go to the store), you could be eating a delicious meal in a half an hour. This is so easy, you will be unhappy forever if you order take-out instead.
Mediterranean mac and cheese
This Mediterranean Diet Mac and Cheese recipe is not loaded with butter and cream, has all the greatness of mac and cheese AND is good for you! And so easy too!
Pasta with broccoli, anchovies, lemon
Short week has me scrambling. Here’s an easy one.
Simplest Gnocchi
It's taken me years, but I've perfected my Gnocchi, so why not share it with all of you as I didn't find many recipes for just plain old Gnocchi on the site, though there were many with variations, but I'm an old-fashioned Italian and I like them the way Nonne in Italy have made them for years (though in some parts of Italy Gnocchi is made with either ricotta or semolina - but more on that another time!)
Vermicelli Pudding (Semiya Payasam)
Semiya (the Indian term for vermicelli pasta) Payasam turns into a wonderful dessert pudding recipe that is traditionally served at weddings.
Dad's Red Sauce
Every Sunday night, year round, this is the one meal -- pasta with my red sauce -- that is guaranteed to result in clean plates. With three very picky sons, I have succeeded in being a "best dad" with the recipe. This is the short form recipe (the long form is doing it all from scratch and putting it through a food mill). This is only original because I make it and I've refined it by talking to italian chefs who like a simple red sauce. So maybe this is their idea.
All-Purpose Recipe for Food (a la Bittman)
We’ve found this all-purpose recipe to be adaptable to almost any cuisine.
Pasta With Spicy Sausages, Tomatoes, Rosemary and Olives
Shrimp Asparagus Pasta
A very nice spring time meal, this shrimp and asparagus pasta recipe is ready in minutes! You'll need spaghetti noodles, olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper.
Gabriella's Farmers Cheese Gnocchi
This dumpling recipe makes farmers cheese gnocchi, a humble food at its finest: easy, quick, and deeply satisfying. Serve them plain with salt and sour cream.
Simple Pad Thai
Pad Thai is essentially a stir-fry and requires little more than chopping and stirring. It comes together in less than a half-hour. First you'll need rice stick noodles, which are pale, translucent, flat and range from very thin to more than a quarter-inch wide; you soak them in hot water until they’re tender. Meanwhile, make a sauce from tamarind paste, now easily found in larger supermarkets or online. The paste, made from the pulp of the tamarind pod, is very sour, but more complex than citrus. (It can vary widely in its potency, so be sure to taste as you go.) Made from fermented anchovies (and much like the garum of ancient Rome), fish sauce (nam pla) is another important ingredient. Honey and rice vinegar round things out.
Stir-Fried Winter Squash and Tofu With Soba
Winter squash is a nutrient-dense vegetable, with lots of vitamin A in the form of beta carotene (the more orange the flesh, generally the more vitamin A in the squash), vitamin C, potassium and dietary fiber. Winter squash goes well with ginger, and this stir-fry makes a delicious vegetarian main course. Use a sweet, dense squash like butternut for this dish.
Creamy Pasta With Smoked Bacon and Peas
This elegant riff on a childhood favorite came to The Times in 2009 by way of Jamie Oliver, the British chef and cookbook author. It was featured in his cookbook “Jamie’s Food Revolution: Rediscover How to Cook Simple, Delicious, Affordable Meals," and it's a favorite of his daughters, Poppy and Daisy. It's wholesome (no powdered cheese!), and it can be ready in about 15 minutes.
Pasta With Beans and Mussels
Salsiccie con Uova
This salsiccie con uova recipe is a nicely balanced blend of sweet, sour, and savory. Serve this over shaped pasta, such as campanelle, chiocciole, or fusilli.
One-Pan Pasta With Garlic and Oil
Malaysian Stir-Fried Noodles With Shrimp
These spicy noodles are based on a classic Malaysian noodle dish, Mee Goreng, but I’ve reduced the number of ingredients. With origins in North India, the dish lends itself well to the Indian Papadini bean flour noodles, which have more protein, ounce for ounce, than steak. If you can’t find this type of noodle, use wide dried rice noodles: soak them for 20 minutes in warm water, then cook 1 minute in boiling water, drain and toss with 1 tablespoon oil as directed.
Noodle Pudding
Noodles, which routinely find themselves saved as leftovers in the back of the refrigerator, can easily be converted into dessert. Milk, butter, cinnamon and eggs combine for the custard that surrounds the cooked pasta, and the whole dish is topped with raisins. If you don’t like raisins, almost any dried fruit — cranberries or cherries, for example — would be a nice substitution.
Pasta With Roasted Garlic, Pancetta and Arugula
For this pasta, garlic is roasted in the oven to bring out its sweetness, then sautéed with bold flavors: salty pancetta, fiery chile flakes and a squeeze of lemon. Chopped peppery arugula and a pound of penne round out the dish. It takes 40 minutes to an hour to roast the garlic, but you can do it a day in advance, and it is worth it for the final, honeyed results.