Spiced sun-gold tomato sauce.

This is flat-out the best pasta sauce I’ve made with fresh tomatoes: sweet, spicy, delicious. You really need to try it.

Pasta salad with summer vegetables and peppercorn dressing.

This pasta salad comes together easily, with a few sauteed summer vegetables, prepared pasta and creamy peppercorn dressing.

Pasta with potatoes, beans and pesto.

This easy pasta recipe is delicious and a little unexpected, with potatoes, fresh summer green beans and flavorful pesto.

Eating locally abroad: Cooking in Italy.

A recent trip to Tuscany has inspired simple recipes and dishes made with the most basic fresh ingredients. See more Italian-inspired cooking ideas.

Recent favorites.

Looking for a new chocolate chip cookie recipe to try? Perhaps a new favorite salad or pasta recipe? Here’s a roundup of my very favorite recipes from recent weeks.

Pasta with zucchini, pine nuts and Parmesan.

You’ll be surprised how much flavor this simple pasta dish packs: it’s just zucchini, pasta, pine nuts, herbs and Parmesan. Perfect for Meatless Monday.

Try this: How to toast pasta.

Try this: Before cooking your favorite dried pasta for a recipe, toast it lightly in the oven to lend a deep, nutty, rich flavor to your pasta dish.

Simple pasta with vegetables.

This simple pasta recipe is endlessly flexible: Use any combination of vegetables that you like. Be sure to choose orecchiette pasta, whose bowl shape works perfectly here.