The key to a great, well-balanced pasta salad therefore isn't what you mix in, but in how much pasta you use. For Ina Garten, the best pasta salad leans less on the noodles and more on the salad.

If you're a home chef, it can seem like there's pressure to make everything from scratch. But this store-bought pasta sauce ...

Although she seemingly dreams up new and delicious recipes on a weekly basis for her cookbooks and television shows, Ina Garten is just ... boil your orzo pasta. When the orzo is tender and ...

The lockdowns eased, but I was still hooked on the "Barefoot Contessa" cookbooks. I've now made so many of Garten's pasta dishes that I even have an ultimate ranking (which you can find here).