Since it’s springtime, for either lunch or dinner you can serve a bright, colorful and easy-to-make pasta dish that’s alive with fresh garden flavors, along with a green salad brightened with colors—orange grape tomatoes, blood orange segments and anything that catches your eye at the market.

Here’s a recipe for Pasta Primavera, a food fan favorite.

The recipe is from the Sable & Rosenfeld Elegant Entertaining Cookbook.

Pasta Primavera can be served hot or cold, with a crisp white wine or a light-bodied red.

And don’t forget crusty bread or garlic bread—worth the carbs!

• Find more of our favorite pasta recipes.

Your garden doesn’t have to be elaborate;
a patio with a planter will do. Photo courtesy Sable & Rosenfeld.