Tested pasta recipes the American way, from baked classics to fast stovetop dinners. Each one cooked from the chef’s real recipe before it goes on the site.
Ree Drummond’s Pioneer Woman chuckwagon pasta tosses wagon wheel noodles in a beef, barbecue, and mustard sauce at about 595 calories per serving. This 25-minute recipe from The Pioneer Woman show feeds 4 to 6 with one skillet, so cleanup is as fast as the cooking. Barbecue sauce and yellow mustard replace the Italian seasonings …
Ree Drummond’s Pioneer Woman linguine with clam sauce pairs canned clams with garlic, white wine, and cream at about 500 calories per serving. The whole dish comes together in 20 minutes from her website, so it works for a weeknight dinner without planning ahead. Most white clam sauces stop at olive oil, garlic, and wine, …
Ina Garten’s Mac and Cheese is the absolute gold standard of comfort food. This recipe moves far beyond the standard stove-top box by creating a rich, velvety Béchamel sauce infused with the sophisticated depth of Gruyère and the sharp, punchy bite of extra-sharp Cheddar. It is a luxurious, grown-up take on a childhood favourite. What …
Martha Stewart’s chicken pasta is a one-pan dinner of golden chicken cutlets, browned mushrooms, shallots, and curly egg noodles in a creamy Dijon sauce. It feeds four in 45 minutes with one skillet to wash. The recipe appears on marthastewart.com as Creamy Chicken and Mushrooms with Egg Noodles, so a search for chicken pasta will …
Martha Stewart’s cheaters mac and cheese is a one-pot dinner for two made with penne, broccoli, cream cheese, butter, and Parmesan. Ten minutes of prep and 20 minutes total gets it from boiling water to bowl. The recipe is an exact match from marthastewart.com, published under this same playful name by her test kitchen. Every …
Martha Stewart’s butternut squash pasta sauce blends roasted squash and garlic with half-and-half into a silky sauce for any pasta shape. It needs just six pantry ingredients and one hour from whole squash to sauced dinner for eight. The recipe is an exact match from marthastewart.com, where her team published it with step-by-step photos, a …
Martha Stewart’s baked pasta is a vegetarian ziti in a garlicky tomato sauce made silky with cream cheese, topped with mozzarella and Parmesan. It goes under high heat for a browned, bubbling top and takes 1 hour 10 minutes total. The recipe lives on marthastewart.com under the name Creamy Baked Ziti, so it will not …