If anyone ever gets wind of me deciding to spend my one day off making homemade ravioli again, please please try to talk me out of it. Call me up and tell me it’s really not necessary, that instead I should put my feet up and relax. I probably won’t pick up but you can leave [...]

One of the best things I’ve ever eaten is the casunzei at Babbo. It’s a beet-and-ricotta-filled ravioli in a butter sauce, topped with poppy seeds. The pasta sheets are super thin and light, the sweet beet filling melts in your mouth, and the butter makes it all go down easy. Al di la has a version, [...]

Ever since I got my KitchenAid stand mixer, the husband has been asking me when I’m going to make fresh pasta. I keep telling him, no, it’s not a pasta maker, the pasta maker is a separate attachment thingy that costs extra money. Well then what does that thing do? he asks, referring to the [...]

Turkey sausage! Turkey sausage. I wouldn’t want anyone to think I was cooking treif in my home. But I also don’t want to discourage anyone else from using pork sausage. In fact, I think you should make this with pork sausage and invite me over for dinner tonight. Oh wait, I can’t do it tonight. [...]

This is a sophisticated baked pasta that still speaks to your inner child. Slivered radicchio, normally tough and slightly bitter, submits to a simmering sauce of butter, onions, and whole peeled tomatoes, which is then enriched with cream. Parbaked pasta is layered with the sauce, diced fresh mozzarella, and melt-in-your-mouth mini chicken meatballs that have been coated in flour [...]