Love this recipe. Personally, I love toasting some chickpeas and add to olive oil, garlic and red onions to make a plant protein packed pasta experience!

my pantry pasta is pretty basic. Rao's sauce, rigatoni, and maybe some fresh basil? I'll usually sauté some fresh garlic first before adding the sauce to the pan, just to make it more flavorful. OH and a ton of cheese. Obviously 

Marcella Hazan's tomato sauce! 1 can of whole peeled tomatoes (honestly crushed or pureed also work in a pinch), one onion (peeled and cut in half), 4 tablespoons butter. Dump it all in a pot. Let it simmer for 45 mins. Fish out the onions. Toss with a box of spaghetti or pasta of your choice, VOILA. 

My pantry pasta is a rigatoni simply because I love a Rigatoni noodle, and some butter, and parmesan cheese. Maybe an Italian sausage. Very basic. I'm not a tomato sauce girl. 

I like to sauté some onion and garlic (lardons are optional), add some chopped courgettes and red pepper and then a good slug of white wine, reduce, add some passata, salt and pepper, nutmeg and some ground chilli (not too much if the kids are eating it!) and then finish it off with a splash of cream and some parmesan. Served with whatever pasta shapes are in the cupboard (my faves are tortiglioni or fusilli). Simple and effective :)

I still have frozen tortellini I bought in preparation for the pandemic, so that with just a little bit of butter or olive oil. I’m not a great cook, clearly. 

Browned butter! All you need is some butter and some sage (fresh is best, but you can use ground sage as well). 

It's a little tough to cook it without burning it completely, but it's only about 6-8 minutes on the stove, and then it's done! Add some nutmeg, and YUM. 

I love that you describe something "quick" as 45 minutes. That is an eternity in this GO GO GO era! LOL. Sounds delish though. 

my friends and I were talking about good recipes for a magazine, and my girlfriend mentioned our "pantry pasta" a sauce we make when we can't run to the store and need to make something quick and in a pinch. it got me wondering what other people keep on hand to make something yummy quick and easy

you saute the onions and garlic till they're brown, add some red chili flakes for heat, add the olives and capers, saute a bit more. deglaze with the tomatoes, and add the tuna and it's basically done. Maybe total cook and prep time is like 45min? Anyone else have any good ones?

what's your "pantry pasta"?