Pasta and sauce is a childhood staple; for baby’s first taste, try this version the whole family can enjoy. Use a slotted spoon to pull out al dente pasta for the adults to eat, and cook the rest of the pasta until it is soft for baby.
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Penne Pomodoro
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Egg N Cheese Pasta
Many toddlers have an aversion to strong flavours; this pasta dish is mild but tasty enough for the whole family to enjoy. Older children may appreciate a garnish of chopped green onions and crumbled cooked bacon.
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Easy Sweet Potato Mac and Cheese
For kids who are fussy eaters, try hiding mashed sweet potato in this clever mac and cheese; it has the orange colour that many kids expect. Pasta absorbs more sauce as it stands so when reheating, add a splash of milk to attain desired consistency.
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Penne with Rapini and Goat Cheese
For families that don’t eat fish, getting enough omega-3 can be a problem. PC Blue Menu Omega 3 Pasta helps you rise to the challenge.
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Porcini Tortelloni in Brodo
Tortellini means little twists and are a small, stuffed pasta; tortelloni are large tortellini. “In brodo” is Italian for in broth. This makes a great starter to one of our PC lasagnas.
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Easy Weeknight Broccoli Pasta
Broccoli is a nutritional powerhouse- it offers fibre, calcium, vitamins and phytochemicals. One bunch of broccoli is made up of several heads; one head is one individual stem plus its crown. You only need one head for this recipe.
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Spaghetti and Tomato Basil Sauce
An easy, basic Italian-style tomato sauce that uses mostly pantry ingredients. If you don’t have basil, stir in a little butter at the end, or a little soft goat cheese.
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Lightning Linguine
We named this lightning because you can make it a flash! In the true Italian manner, the dish is sparsely sauced keeping the emphasis on the pasta. Buy a bag of prewashed baby spinach to keep the preparation time down.
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Cheesy Ravioloni and Sauce
Cheesy pasta is always a hit with kids. Your budding chef can help make this one!
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Creamy Tomato Sauce with Pasta
A quick and easy pasta for a weeknight. Evaporated milk adds wonderful creaminess to the sauce, as well as making this a good source of calcium with 260 mg per serving.
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Old Fashioned Spaghetti and Meatballs
This retro dish will take you back to the local Italian joint of old. Very little “cooking” required!
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Peanut Pasta Salad
This tasty, super-easy salad is chock full of nutritious vegetables and you can pull it together in minutes.
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Chicken Pasta Soup
This all-in-one main course is speedy enough to make on a weeknight after work.
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Macaroni and Chicken Bake
Who doesn’t love mac and cheese? Here’s a super-easy dinner the whole family will enjoy.
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Organic Spaghetti and Meatballs
PC Organics Tomato & Basil sauce gives this dish an authentic, long-simmered flavour, while saving you time in the kitchen. Buon Appetito!
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Organic Macaroni and Cheese
Your family will discover that comfort is contagious when they taste this golden casserole. It’s made with Quebec organic cheddar cheese from organically raised cows.
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Mediterranean Couscous
Once you start using couscous, the pasta-like grain that “cooks” off the stove, you’ll love it for side dishes like this one flavoured with roasted garlic oil and oregano.
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Groovy Gremolata
In Italy, the lemon-garlic-parsley mixture called gremolata is traditionally sprinkled on osso bucco, or braised veal marrow bones.





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