Beans: Add a spoonful of tomato paste to buttery white beans and escarole, or try a combination of tomato paste and ketchup ...

For example, the classic tomato-based pasta e fagioli uses white beans like these ... Kidney beans would also taste delicious whole or mashed into a red sauce, bringing a firmer bite and a more ...

I utterly adore Marmite and butter on pasta, made (in)famous by Nigella. I’d go so far as to add extra black pepper and pecorino. I fear I will be stopped at the border of Italy if I ever try to visit ...

Taco Pasta Casserole. Photo credit: Upstate Ramblings. Slow Cooker Pasta E Fagioli ... This one-pot sausage and red pepper pasta comes together in under 30 minutes when your energy is as low as your ...

These high-protein pasta recipes prove you ... the rigatoni right in the marinara sauce. Evoke the flavor of turkey sausage by mixing sweet paprika, red pepper flakes, fennel seeds and garlic ...

Pasta is an easy dish to make ... superfood-based pestos or homemade dairy-free sauces (think cashew cream sauce instead of alfredo sauce, etc.) Upping your veggie intake and decreasing the ...

Tweaking a red sauce is a lot like sizing up a restaurant ... I saw this tip on a TikTok video by an Italian lady sharing her pasta sauce. She said it raises the pH, removes the acidity, and ...

In the 1990s, regional Italian cuisine, and Cal-Ital, eclipsed the red-sauce-heavy Italian food we grew up eating, whether it was served to us by a nonna or we experienced it at a checkered ...