When you're hosting a dinner party, the most important part is nailing down an impressive menu. While gourmet dinner party recipes can certainly accomplish the task, they can be a lot of work. Instead ...

It's time to bust out of your regular baked pasta routine with Spaghetti Pie--a Midwest one-pot meal that's quick, easy and oh-so-cheesy. Just choose your pasta, grab some cheese, stir up some sauce ...

Cheeseburger or pasta? There’s no need to choose between two all-American dishes, thanks to this casserole mashup. While spaghetti pie typically features a ground beef ragu, this recipe takes it one ...

On the day before a meet, my little athletes demand pasta for its carbohydrate-fueled energy boost. Tomato, spinach and sausage spaghetti pie. (Pioneer Press / Jess Fleming) Being a good track mom, I ...

Pasta transformed into pie . . . is there anything more that needs to be said to describe the brilliance of this dish? OK fine, I’ll keep going. Imagine spaghetti, boiled until al dente, mixed ...

If you thought endless breadsticks were the greatest gift Olive Garden ever gave to the world, just wait. Your favorite Italian restaurant chain just blessed the human race once more by created an ...

Eat light today, folks, because it’s time to indulge in that favorite Italian carb: pasta. Celebrated annually on Oct. 17, National Pasta Day reminds us that it’s OK on occasion to start the day off ...

Cook spaghetti according to package directions; drain. Return spaghetti to hot saucepan and keep warm. Stir butter into hot pasta until melted. Stir in egg and Parmesan cheese; set aside. Preheat oven ...

“I can go through every trip we ever went on and tell you what we did, based on what we ate there,” says Top Chef judge and cook Gail Simmons. As a young woman, Simmons traveled the world– hitchhiking ...

In the 2003 comedy “Elf,” actor Will Ferrell plays a human raised as an elf who is exiled from the North Pole. One of man-child Buddy the elf’s favorite concoctions is spaghetti pie: a concoction of ...