

Try our garlicky shrimp Alfredo bake, our baked penne alla vodka with turkey, or our French onion penne, or swap penne in for any of your preferred baked pasta recipes. In winter, you’ve gotta go baked penne-it’s warm, comforting, and best of all, hands-off, so you can spend more time hunkering down out of the cold. Maybe it needs a touch of salt, red pepper flakes, or some fresh garlic to liven it up. When fall rolls around, and cold weather with it, get back into the hang of cooking of your stovetop with our chicken sausage and mushroom penne or our penne puttanesca (truly fridge clean-out pasta at its finest). Check out our strawberry balsamic pasta salad, our chicken Caesar pasta salad, or our esquites pasta salad for ideas, but really, you can swap it in for any of your fave recipes. In summer, don’t let macaroni get all the pasta salad love-penne is a great option instead. Try it in spring with fresh produce, like in our spinach pesto penne with shrimp and peas or our lemony asparagus pasta, or alongside sun-dried tomatoes when the warmer weather’s got you craving deep summer ones, like in our sun-dried tomato & sausage pasta or our cheesy sun-dried tomato penne pie. Check out our 33 penne pasta recipes for ideas-you’ll love it for its versatility too. But when we’re just cooking at home, we’re way more likely to fall back on the old standby-penne! It’s easy to find, its cylindrical shape and slight ridges means it goes well with any pasta sauce, and we think its pointed ends give it a touch of grown-up class (sorry, rigatoni). It’s true, when we’re trying out recipes and taking glamorous shots for the site or our print products, we often reach for fancier pasta shapes with more complicated Italian pasta names, like orecchiette, gigli, pappardelle, or cavatappi.
