Best Winter Pasta Dishes

Last Updated December 27, 2023

Healing House Slow Cooker Sausage and Vegetable Lasagna

Every Tuesday is "Crockpot Tuesday" at Healing Housing, a nonprofit residential recovery program serving women healing from addiction throughout Middle Tennessee. On this day, the newest...

Bella Napoli's Penne Alla Vodka Pasta

In Italy, pasta is always cooked in the sauce allowing it to soak up the flavors. Use a large skillet to allow room for the penne to nestle in with the sauce.

Creamy Kale Lasagna with Pesto

A gutsy green lasagna loaded with vitamins and great taste. Oh, and it's vegetarian.

Pasta Carbonara

Pasta carbonara, with its assertive combination of bacon, eggs, Parmesan, and lots of black pepper, hails from the region around Rome. The name means “pasta in the style of coal miners” as a nod...

Spaghetti Casserole

With a bit of the terrific locally made Jim's Spaghetti Sauce left over, I mixed up this lil casserole with other stuff from the fridge. Definitely a notch above my moms.

Does the world really need another BBQ book? The answer is yes when it's written by Nashvillian Matt Moore. This recipe is taken from Matt's new cookbook The South's Best Butts: Pitmaster Secrets for...

Carter's Spaghetti

Chef Eric Pippert of 5th & Taylor restaurant has a 6-year-old daughter, Carter, so like most parents he has to disguise nutrition in the form of yummy food. This "spaghetti" is a riff on Bolognese...

Marcella Hazan's Bolognese Sauce

The perfect, true Bolognese sauce from the doyenne of Italian cooking herself (via the NYTimes).

Rigatoni with Ricotta Cheese, Squash and Bacon

This warm and coy casserole has all the right flavors for fall. Salty bacon, sweet butternut squash cooked and tossed with pasta, then dolloped with creamy ricotta for a satisfying dinner for friends...