29 Cheesy Pasta Recipes for the Coziest Dinners

When all you want is a big hug on a plate, cheesy pasta is almost always the answer. (The other half of the time, it’s pie.) Pasta cooked with cheese is comfort food in its truest form. And it’s a dinner just about anyone can get behind, no matter the night of the week.

Here you’ll find a dead-simple roux-free mac and cheese you’ll want to pull out for the holidays; a parm-heavy vodka pasta you can whip together on Tuesday night; and pastas that use blue cheese, mozzarella, aged cheddar, and more. In short, these cheesy pasta recipes are sure to fill that void inside you. (We mean hunger.)