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Category: Pasta

Focaccia
BreadsFor a Bread MachinePastaSide DishesSoupsVegetarian

Focaccia

PollyJuly 22, 2025August 6, 2025

When my kids were little they used to call this “salty bread”. When Abby’s college friends asked for it they called it “Fa-fa-fa” (this was before Focaccia was a “thing” in the US). I’ve been making this for years, from…

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45 Minute Pasta with Italian Sausage
Main DishPastaPoultryRed Meat

45 Minute Pasta with Italian Sausage

PollyAugust 30, 2024July 15, 2025

I’ve been making this pasta dish for a number of years. I think I found the original recipe in a Food and Wine Magazine because that’s where I found this photo—mine vanishing into thin air with the recent website malfunction…

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Creamy Lemon Chicken Pasta
Main DishPastaPoultry

Creamy Lemon Chicken Pasta

PollyJune 15, 2024July 18, 2025

I’ve been making this for about three years now and I really have no recollection of where I got the recipe. It’s good and it’s quick, and you just might have most of the ingredients on hand. It checks all…

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Fresh Tomato Lasagna
Main DishMeatlessPastaSeasonalSummer

Fresh Tomato Lasagna

PollySeptember 29, 2023August 28, 2025

This lasagna is creamy, cheesy and fresh tasting, but lighter than regular lasagna—though still rich. Since there are so few ingredients in this lasagna make sure your tomatoes are the BEST; they’re what makes this lasagna! Although this pan of lasagna looks…

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Polly’s Mac n’ Cheese
PastaSide Dishes

Polly’s Mac n’ Cheese

PollyNovember 29, 2020August 28, 2025

Yep, I’m totally claimin’ it—Polly’s Mac n’ Cheese! I’ve been promising to post this recipe forever, but I’ve held off because it’s impossible (for me anyway) to get a good picture of Mac n’ Cheese! And the issue is partly…

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Pasta with Shrimp and Cilantro-Lime Pesto
Main DishPastaSeafood

Pasta with Shrimp and Cilantro-Lime Pesto

PollyJuly 8, 2020July 18, 2025

I think we’ve pretty well established that pasta can be an easy, quick, flexible and satisfying meal, right? Well, ever had one with 3T tequila? No? Well, here you go! With freshly made pesto, too! And you should be able…

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Pasta with Asparagus
Main DishMeatlessPastaVeggies

Pasta with Asparagus

PollyJune 6, 2018July 18, 2025

I was underwhelmed with this recipe. The ingredient list didn’t add up to much for me. But Abby wanted to make it, and what Abby wants, Abby gets! I was wrong. This is a knock out pasta dish; easy, quick…

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Italian Wedding Soup
Main DishPastaRed MeatSoupsWinter

Italian Wedding Soup

PollyFebruary 24, 2017August 28, 2025

Italian Wedding Soup is easy to make, and is good as soon as it’s made—no need to sit overnight to intensify the flavors! Not being Italian, I can’t claim this is just like my Nonna made, nor can I claim…

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It's all about the recipe—really, it is! I have amassed quite a collection of recipes from my favorite cookbooks, food magazines, friends, the Internet, and more recently my adult daughters. I test every recipe I post. Some I've been cooking for years, decades even, and a few I have made only a few times. I don't post mediocre recipes. I don't post good recipes. I post GREAT recipes! When I find a recipe I LOVE, I can't wait to share it. I started In the Kitchen with Polly on January 01, 2010, a joint venture between myself and my non-cooking but most excellent webmaster, proofreader, technical goddess and all-around bestie, ratty (not a joke—ratty is her chosen nickname—her Mama didn’t do that to her, she did it to herself!). Last year we hit a snag—the website went up in monstrous flames. It took a long time to sort out what happened and even longer to recreate what was lost. Hundreds of pictures gone, and every recipe we posted (300+) over the last 14 years had to be reformatted, many pictures retaken. It's done now though, and we are back! I like this brighter version :) Scroll through! Find something you like, and let's get cooking! There’s a search button and there are also tags to click on if you want to find a recipe for a specific food. If you need it, the print button is on the preview page and at the end of each post.

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