Spinach-Colored Fresh Pasta

We've shown you how to make classic fresh egg pasta; now we're taking it one step further, with a bright green dough, naturally colored with a spinach purée. The result is a versatile, neutral-flavored pasta that can be used for noodles, ravioli, tortellini, and beyond.

Orange Tomato Paste-Colored Fresh Pasta

You can stop at classic fresh egg pasta, or you can transform the pale yellow noodles into a rich orange hue. This recipe is as easy to make as traditional Italian pasta, only it's colored with some added tomato paste. It yields a tender and delicate neutral-flavored pasta that goes with just about anything.

Squid Ink Fresh Pasta

Aromatic squid ink is used to color this classic fresh egg pasta and give it a silky black hue. But while it may smell strong, the resulting noodles are relatively neutral in flavor. It's traditional to pair them with seafood, but they'll taste good with any sauce or added ingredients that play well with a subtle hint of brininess.

Homemade Fresh Pasta

This recipe yields a springy, delicate homemade fresh pasta and is well-suited to slicing into noodles, as as well as making stuffed pastas, which require thin, pliable sheets of dough.

Casunsiei (Beet and Ricotta Ravioli)

This is a signature dish at Al Di La, and one that I love to order. The jewel-colored beet filling shines through the delicate pasta, just bidding to be eaten. They are so sublimely delicious, I always want more. Now I can make and eat as many as I want at home...and you can too.

Radish-Top Pasta from 'The French Market Cookbook'

I'm one of those people who buys root vegetables with the leaves intact with the intent to cook them up as kind of a "freebie." But most of the time I forget about the greens for a couple of days, and then by the time I get around to using them, they've all but shriveled up. Recipes like this super-quick radish-top pasta from Clotilde Dusoulier's new book, The French Market Cookbook, however, encourage me to change my ways.

Pasta With Beans and Greens

Creamy beans and hearty greens are the perfect pairing for this pasta, which is easy enough to pull together on a weekend but tasty enough to serve at a dinner party.

Creamy Beet Gratin With Pistachio Crumble

Earthy beets are thinly sliced and layered, then submerged in a chile-spiked cream. It all bubbles together until the beets become tender and caramelized. The creamy gratin is topped with a crunchy mix of salted pistachios, panko bread crumbs, and a pinch of sugar to balance the chili's mellow heat.

Roasted-Beet Salad With Horseradish Crème Fraîche and Pistachios

Sweet roasted beets, paired with the heat of horseradish = a winning combo.

Pasta with Eggplant, Portobella, and Tomatoes

I spent a good portion of the last month making eggplant parmesan for the Food Lab article on the subject. This left me with a few things: lots of canned tomatoes, plenty of Parmigiano-Reggiano, a slew of eggplants, and a great microwave-then-cook technique for getting the most out of their texture. That's about all there is to say about this recipe, other than the fact that it takes about 20 minutes to throw together, and is really good to boot.