This cozy tomato and garlic confit pasta is one of my favorite ways to celebrate sweet summer tomatoes. It requires very little prep time – you add all the ingredients into a baking dish and let the oven do all…
30-Minute Lemon Pasta with Shrimp
This lemon pasta is light and bright and it’s creamy without the cream! It’s loaded with lemon juice, lemon zest, Parmesan cheese and a generous ladle of starchy pasta water. The shrimp is lightly marinated with salt, white pepper and…
Cavatappi Primavera With Asparagus & Peas
This simple pasta primavera welcomes spring’s bounty – fresh asparagus and peas. The sauce is light with a touch of richness from the mascarpone and the crispy prosciutto adds a nutty savory surprise in every bite. The key to this…
Brown Butter Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Sausage and Kale
I’ve made this three times in the past week because there’s just something comforting about the earthy flavors of the sweet potatoes and kale as the weather gets colder in New York. This pasta has pillowy sweet potato gnocchi made…
30-Minute Miso Mushroom Bucatini
If fall were a pasta dish, this would be it for me. This pasta dish is filled with umami flavors from the miso and the variety of mushrooms. It’s a cozy bowl of pasta that will get you in the…
Creamy Sungold Pasta
If a cozy tomato soup were a pasta this would be it. This comforting bowl of pasta comes together in just 30 minutes! Sungold tomatoes are usually in season during the summer months but you can substitute the Sungold tomatoes…
Simple Bolognese
Bolognese sounds daunting but when you actually make it, you quickly realize how simple the recipe is to make at home. Time and patience are probably the most important ingredients to achieving an authentic bolognese. Although I never grew up…
5-Ingredient Foolproof Carbonara
Sometimes the simplest recipes can be the most difficult to prepare because the limited number of ingredients leaves no room for error. Every time I post a Carbonara recipe on social media, one of the most frequently asked questions is…
5-Ingredient Easy Cherry Tomato Pasta
This is a quick and easy way to make tomato sauce from scratch using sweet ripe cherry tomatoes. You only need 5 ingredients for the cherry tomato sauce which bursts with sweetness. The best part is it only takes 15…
Spinach Pistachio Pesto
Pesto is a great way to upcycle the leftover greens and nuts in your kitchen. The pistachio and baby spinach gives this pesto a vibrant hue and adds a wonderful brightness to salads, sandwiches and pastas. The pistachios produced a…
Garlic Noodles
Sourdough bread or Cioppino usually comes to mind when you think of the iconic dishes from San Francisco. For me, it’s the cozy bowl of buttery garlic noodles that are served alongside the roasted Dungeness crab at Thanh Long. I…
Pasta alla No Vodka
Yes, this isn’t your traditional pasta alla vodka but you can get away without the vodka if you bump up the tomato flavor with tomato paste. Just make sure to caramelize the tomato paste with the aromatics in the pan…
