1. Pizza Pasta Skillet Dinner
You can add whatever pizza toppings you like best, although pepperoni is definitely a classic. Here's the recipe.
3. Rigatoni With Leeks, Zucchini, and Garlic Scapes in White Wine Lemon Sauce
Chop, measure, and go. If you don't want to shell out for garlic scapes (or if they're out of season), you can substitute green onions, or a few sliced garlic cloves. Here's the recipe.
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4. Leftover Beef Noodle Soup
Start with your carrots and end with your noodles, and it all takes just half an hour, assuming you have some leftover pot roast on hand. You could also use rotisserie chicken, if you want a chicken noodle soup. Here's the recipe.
6. Chicken Enchilada Rigatoni
Olives optional. Cheese, not so much. Here's the recipe.
7. Roasted Red Pepper Whole Wheat Spaghetti
As the recipe suggests, you can cut the time it takes to make this by buying jars of roasted red peppers and chopped garlic. It can also be an easy vegan meal if you don't sprinkle feta cheese on top.
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8. Ants Climbing a Tree
It's a Chinese dish with ground pork, vegetables, and chile sauce. Get the recipe here.
9. Vegetable Pasta Primavera
Featuring onions, broccoli, asparagus, tomatoes, corn, and whatever else you happen to have lying around your fridge. Get the recipe here.
10. Soba Noodles With Edamame and Spring Veggies
You do have to mix up the sauce in a separate bowl, but then you can just serve the noodles in that same bowl. Here's the recipe.
11. The Best Damn Easy Skillet Lasagna
You cook the meat. You layer in literally everything else (including uncooked lasagna noodles and a jar of pre-made sauce). You bake for 25 minutes. That's it. Get the recipe here.
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12. Cheesy Lemon Chicken Bow Ties
With optional roasted tomatoes (because you have to cook those in the oven). Here's the recipe.
13. Chicken Sausage Tex Mex Orecchiette
Bless you, Rotel, for all of your spicy tomato-ness. Here's the recipe.
14. Garlicky Broccolini and White Bean Fusilli
Exactly what you want to eat on a spring evening, with a cool glass of white wine. Here's the recipe.
15. Pasta Puttanesca With Olives, Tomatoes, Capers, and Artichokes
So many flavors, so little time. Here's the recipe.
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16. Ricotta Fettuccine With Mint and Garlic Sauce
Sounds fancy, but it's also fast. To make it even faster, skip the step where you make the sauce in a separate bowl: While the pasta's draining, make the sauce in the same pan you used to cook the pasta. Here's the recipe.
18. Weeknight Cheeseburger Fusilli
Ketchup and mustard in your sauce? Yes, actually. Get the recipe here.
19. And (drumroll, please): RED. WINE. PASTA.
Yep, you RED that right (if you're skeptical — apparently it's worth a try). Get the recipe here.
