Brown Butter Lobster with Truffle Butter Fettuccini

Serves 2 – 3 It’s Valentine’s Day, you forgot to make dinner reservations, so you’re knee-deep in Pinterest, trying to find a meal you can make fast with stuff that isn’t going to break the bank or be hard to find. Oh yeah, it’s also gotta be somewhat impressive and romantic. This is basically the…

Burst Cherry Tomato Sauce with Fresh Buffalo Mozzarella Ravioli Pasta

Serves 4 We’re reclaiming the habitual summer experience of biting into a freshly picked, firm but truly ripe, never-refrigerated cherry tomato that pops in your mouth and relishing it. In the height of summer, a stellar but simple tomato sauce is essential dinner fare. This sauce came about one when I had an abundance of…

Fresh Pasta Dough

Making your own pasta dough can be intimidating – but yields great dividends. The satisfaction derived from making something so delicious out of the simplest of ingredients of flour, egg and olive oil is incredible, and the difference between that and store bought “fresh” pasta is night and day. This is Chef Ann Burrell’s fresh…

Summer Penne Tricolore

A summer pasta should be simple and fresh, ideally made with vegetables straight from the garden or farmers market. Look for Parmigiano-Reggiano chees: top-quality ingredients make all the difference here. We get ours from Costco and it’s good value for money. Here julienne (Matchstick) cut, sautéed until tender, bolstered with garlic, Kalamata olives, and mingled…

Farfalle with Peas & Crispy Prosciutto

Here’s an absolutely divine weeknight pasta dish that’s a triple threat: It’s easy, it’s quick and it’s delicious. Here’s what you do: As the spaghetti boils just dump the frozen peas in with the boiling pasta a couple minutes before the timer is set to ding. Add peas, crispy prosciutto, a little pasta water and…