On days you crave a hearty home-cooked meal but don’t want to deal with the time and stress of cleaning up, a one-skillet dish can be a life-saver. It’s great way to cut down on dishes while feeding a whole family without sacrificing flavor. And this easy pasta skillet checks off that box. Not only does this recipe only…
Kimchi Macaroni and Cheese
Mac and cheese is probably one of the first dishes that I learned how to cook—albeit from a box with fluorescent-colored orange powder. It was so good, even cold! This recipe is definitely a strong upgrade from an instant version, with a béchamel base, four different types of cheese, and kicked up with a bit…
Pasta With Tomato Confit and Ricotta
Confit is a French technique used to preserve food by slowly cooking it in fat. While this method works particularly well for poultry, it isn’t just for (most famously) duck—you can also preserve vegetables like eggplants, carrots, beans, and my favorite, tomatoes. I love tomato confit on just about everything—topped on pizza, piled high on…
A Springtime Carbonara
Think of pasta carbonara as the Italian version of chicken soup. It’s humble and comforting and requires the simplest of ingredients. Carbonara consists of pasta and cured pork (guanciale) or bacon, whisked in a slick sauce of eggs and a shower of grated pecorino cheese. The method is quick. It relies on the heat from…
One-Pan Orecchiette With Broccoli, Bacon, and Crispy Garlic
One-pan recipes aren’t only about the ease of cooking all ingredients in the same pan; they’re also about layering textures and flavors so that the final dish is more than the sum of its parts. In this case, the ingredients are cooked in a particular order—first the garlic, then the bacon, and finally the broccoli—to…
Alternatives to Traditional Pastas
The world’s love affair with pasta traces back thousands of years to Asia, where archaeologists believe the first noodles were produced. There’s been no turning back from this versatile and delicious comfort food favorite. Its reputation has been bruised in recent years, however, taking hits from the low-carb diet trend, wheat allergies, and accusations of…
Linguine With Lemon Pesto, Inspired by Dreams of the Amalfi Coast
by Gretchen McKay Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Are you getting itchy for travel? Me too, now that the spring is teasing us with warm and sunny weather that just begs for a road trip. In particular, I’ve been dreaming of Italy after seeing a friend’s post about his family’s trip to the Amalfi Coast. My husband and…
One-Pot Pasta Means Easy Cleanup on Busy Weeknights
This recipe uses just one pot to cook the pasta and the sauce together; no draining a separate pot of boiling water required. This is possible not through magic, but through the precise measurement of the liquid needed to cook your pasta. There is just enough broth for the pasta to absorb and become tender, plus a…
Spotlight on Puttanesca
Pasta puttanesca is a southern Italian dish that hails from Naples in the Campania region. Puttanesca refers to the potent tomato sauce that brims with black olives, red chiles, capers, and anchovies. It’s safe to say that this dish is no shrinking violet, as its name might suggest, and indeed this sauce is salty, briny,…
This Is the Easiest Pasta Dish to Make at Home
If you have spaghetti, bacon, eggs and Parmesan cheese hanging around, then you’re already set up to make one of the most delicious pasta dishes you’d order out at a restaurant right in your own kitchen. A traditional Roman pasta dish, spaghetti carbonara makes great use of staples that are usually already on hand, and it all comes…
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