I love making Ina Garten's pasta dishes, and recently tried her penne alla vodka recipe. Garten roasts her pasta sauce in the oven, infusing the dish with so much flavor. I thought the dish looked ...

Finally, add the pasta. Jeffers says the key to making perfect penne alla vodka is cooking the pasta until it's just al dente. "It's important to undercook the pasta because it will continue to cook ...

In the 1980s, long before he became a New York chef, a young Iacopo Falai lived across the hall from a hip uncle who sometimes made penne alla vodka for dinner. The combination of tomato, cream and ...

"Pasta is always the same, yet always different," James Beard once famously said. "It has a comforting familiarity with its pale golden color and chewy, wheaten taste." And while comforting ...

My best friend and I used to joke about hosting a show where people bring us their problems and listen to us overthink them. They wouldn’t have to say a thing! We would do all the analyzing for them. ...

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Penne alla Vodka is more an American-Italian recipe than an Italian-American dish, says PBS cooking star Lidia Bastianich. But it's a dish that seldom fails to please. Bastianich said it has been a ...

Besides fettuccine Alfredo, is there a dish reviled by pasta snobs as much as penne alla vodka? The other day, one of these detractors summed up the recipe for us as follows: Bring a large pot of ...

Q I’ve been trying to figure out Capriccio’s Penne alla vodka recipe for years with no luck. I used to live in South Florida but have been in New York for a few years. I had my rehearsal dinner at ...

"Pasta is always the same, yet always different," James Beard once famously said. "It has a comforting familiarity with its pale golden color and chewy, wheaten taste." And while comforting ...