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Recipes with pasta

Baked macaroni and beef ragu with Mornay sauce

Baked macaroni with Mornay sauce

Slow cooker beef ragu, pasta and Mornay sauce are assembled in an oven-safe dish and baked until bubbly. It’s the ultimate mac and cheese. Meaty. Cheesy. Lovely.
Cook time: 6 hours hours 30 minutes minutes
Servings: 6 people
Creamy shrimp and broccoli spaghetti

Creamy shrimp and broccoli spaghetti

Garlic sauteed in butter, sour cream, shrimps, pasta and broccoli florets are tossed in sour cream for an easy and delicious meal. Only one pot is required from start to finish.
Cook time: 15 minutes minutes
Servings: 3 people
Spaghetti with chorizo and salted duck egg sauce

Spaghetti with salted duck egg sauce

The sauce is made with pureed salted duck eggs, olive oil, sun-dried tomatoes and basil. Cooked noodles and lightly fried chorizo are then tossed with the sauce. The result is a richly textured spaghetti dish with all the richness of salted duck eggs.
Cook time: 12 minutes minutes
Servings: 3 people
Creamy ham and veggies pasta

Creamy ham and veggies pasta

Got leftover ham from the holidays? Get creative and make this exceptionally luscious creamy one-dish meal. Cooks in ten minutes flat.
Cook time: 10 minutes minutes
Servings: 4 people
Spaghetti and meatballs

Spaghetti and meatballs

An Italian-American dish, spaghetti and meatballs is comfort food for generations. I’ve cooked it so many times but I have to admit that it’s only recently that I found the real secret to the best meatballs for this dish. Lighter and bouncier meatballs. Not overbearingly dense. That’s how I like them.
Cook time: 20 minutes minutes
Servings: 4 people
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