Pasta Recipes

Honestly, I thought blending roasted squash into a sauce sounded like a lazy shortcut until the first bite completely changed my mind. For years, I … Read more

My refrigerator was making that sad, empty hum again. You know the one. I had a half-empty box of linguine, a bag of frozen shrimp … Read more

Half a butternut squash sitting on the counter, a block of cheddar that was definitely past its prime, and a hungry toddler tugging at my … Read more

This was supposed to be a simple lemon butter sauce for some leftover fish. I had the lemons, the butter, the capers—the whole plan mapped … Read more

My neighbor wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to borrow a ladder—a deeply mundane Tuesday errand—and the smell hit me before I even … Read more

My sister-in-law, Jen, wasn’t trying to impress anyone that Tuesday afternoon. I’d stopped by to borrow a drill, of all things, and the smell of … Read more

I was standing in my neighbor’s driveway last September, holding a box of cherry tomatoes she’d pressed into my hands with the kind of insistence … Read more

Introduction It was 10:47 PM on a forgettable Wednesday, and I was hit with an intense craving for something both comforting and fancy enough to … Read more

“You have to try this,” my old college roommate, Mark, said over the phone last winter, his voice crackling with excitement. I was skeptical at … Read more

“You’ve got ten minutes—what’s for dinner?” That’s the question I faced one hectic Wednesday evening after an unexpected call from a friend saying she was … Read more