We’ll be the first to admit that most of the time when we have pasta with meat sauce, we’re using marinara from a jar and ground beef as the meat of choice. But sometimes, we find ourselves craving a ...

The French Provencal dish ratatouille is made with late-summer vegetables, including eggplant, zucchini, bell pepper, onion, and tomatoes. Some cooks saute each vegetable separately, but it's much ...

Open any pantry in America, and you are likely to find a box of elbow macaroni. These little semicircles are perhaps the only truly American pasta shape, rarely found in other countries and certainly ...

Dan Pashman, host of the podcast The Sporkful, had a quest: develop and market a brand-new shape of pasta. The result is cascatelli, a short,... For Pasta Lovers Bored By Spaghetti, There's A New ...

I’ve been there countless times, staring at shelves filled with potential but craving simplicity. These fourteen pasta recipes prove that extraordinary meals don’t require endless shopping lists or ...

Long noodles like spaghetti or bucatini are best with “thinner, more ‘saucy’ sauces, like a simple marinara or an oil- or butter-based sauce,” says Poliafito. Silky sauces cling to the long strands ...

Pasta, a simple amalgam of wheat flour and water, is one of the world's most popular foods. It's Italy's gift to humanity… or maybe the Arabs’, or China’s. With its hundreds of shapes and sizes, its ...

A: When a recipe lists 2 cups of pasta, mostly likely it means dry pasta. With Free Press Test Kitchen recipes, if we want you to use cooked pasta we would list it as “2 cups cooked pasta.” If we want ...

Q: When an ingredient list calls for “2 cups” of pasta, to what does that refer? Two cups of cooked pasta is enough, but being listed on the ingredient list causes me to think the recipe is calling ...