Pasta

Now, it doesn’t get any easier than this! This recipe is just about as easy as opening a jar of sauce: you chop up a few ingredients and don’t even need to cook them! The heat from the cooked pasta warms them through.

This recipe is an Italian classic that will warm you up inside (Brodo means "broth")!

Pesto is great to have on hand to make an instantly delicious pasta meal. This version uses arugula instead of basil for a fun twist on the original.

Here’s a new take on the classic lasagna recipe!

Who doesn’t love chicken soup? Just like that soup company says, soup is good food. It’s even better when you make it yourself. You get more chicken and more noodles that way. Here are three fast soups that taste like they were slow cooked. Each one is so good, you’ll lose your noodle for them!

This is a really tasty quick meal that you can easily prepare in under thirty minutes. The poppy seeds look like little polka dots. Yum-o!

These noodles make for a speedy meal with an Asian flair. We like using whole wheat pasta for added flavor and tossing in some veggies for crunch.

Mac and cheese isn’t the only kind of baked pasta. Baked pasta can also be traditional Italian casseroles (called Pasta al Forno in Italian) like lasagna or baked ziti. –RR

This meal is a feast and it’s super fast! The sauce cooks in just one minute – really!

You can prepare the shrimp and sauce while you boil the water and cook the pasta – each takes about five minutes.

The launch of Yum-o! as an organization was announced on my daytime television show. I taught a hard working mom this meal. For years, she and her husband had felt disappointment in their ability to get their daughters to eat a well-balanced diet. We cooked this rollover supper together: plenty of lean meat and vegetables in a rich pasta sauce over whole grain pasta, the leftovers of which became a simple soup and a spicy healthy chili. The mom felt so empowered that she cried – then I joined in. Good food can be good for your soul, too. Cook this recipe one night and serve with a green salad. Use the leftover sauce to make Turkey Tomato Soup and then Turkey Vegetable Chili the third night.

This pasta recipe was sent to us by Debby and her daughter, Megan. Little Meg helps with the chopping and grating of veggies as well as during clean up time, too – what a great kid!

This salad uses summer veggies but can also be made all year round; if you can’t find asparagus, use steamed broccoli instead. This makes a great side dish for a barbecue, or a main dish with some crusty bread and a tomato salad. Rosemary adds, "My four-year-old helps me make this by sampling the asparagus and pine nuts and stirring everything together when done."

Cacciatore is the real way to spell the name of this stew. It’s the Italian word for "hunter." Chicken Cacciatore is made with wild mushrooms and strong flavors. It is hearty, so it would keep a hunter full for a long hunt. This stew uses some of the same ingredients and flavors of the original dish, but it’s even easier to make. Everyone in Rachael’s family really loves this recipe!

If a fussy eater in your family wants to know, "What’s in this?" just say, "Worms and eyeballs – hungry?" This tasty meal makes any day seem as spooky as Halloween night! Boo!