A Plate of Tasty Memes with Grandma's Special Sunday Sauce for National Pasta Day (October 17, 2026)

Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor

Oct 17, 2026 2:00 PM EDT

Are you making pasta tonight? You should; it's National Pasta Day! So, are we having spaghetti and meatballs? Fettuccine Alfredo? Penne Alla Vodka? Pastina? What's on the menu, bestie?

Wow, my tummy is already grumbling. It's National Pasta Day, and what a beautiful day to be alive! Pasta is so delicious that even people allergic to gluten still find ways to make pasta dishes they can enjoy. It should be deemed its own important food group, imo. I love them all! The short ones, the long ones, the thick ones—every pasta is good! The Italians really got it right when it came to pasta. If you weren't already planning on having pasta tonight, we recommend you change your mind. There are so many dumb holidays we celebrate as a nation; National Pasta Day should be more celebrated than Labor Day. I don't even like to do labor! It's more like I have to do labor. However, pasta is a different story. Pasta is a choice and a lifestyle! It satisfies the mind, body, and soul. Have you ever been to a family's Sunday Sauce? I'm not even Italian, and I have had the honor of attending a Sunday Sauce, and me, oh my, itsa the best! I'm not going to wait until Sunday this time; I'm eating past tonight and tomorrow, and probably the next night too.

Until I'm able to get to the kitchen, I'll just have to salivate over these pasta memes. Come join meme at the dinner table!

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Let's see if I can remember this green pasta dish recipe that I fell in love with a few years ago and started making every week that year. It's been a while, but I think I've got it.
So, you boil your choice of pasta; I would usually do penne. In the meantime, you make the pasta sauce. This sauce was specifically to get me to eat more veggies, so let's see if I've still go it. You need a bushel of spinach, peas, broccoli, kale, and carrots. You sauté those babies up until the leaves look a little wilted. Throw them in a blender with a cup of oat milk, a cup of parmesan cheese, like half a cup of lemon juice, ground turmeric, ginger, paprika, salt, and pepper (spices to your liking), and a splash of the pasta sauce. Blend, blend, blend, and voilá! You should get a bright green-looking sauce to pour over your pasta. I like to pair it with some grilled chicken and dust with tajín because I'm a fiend for tajín.
I am aware I may have upset some Italians or pasta connoisseurs with this recipe, but you have to understand I'd burn cereal if you asked me to make it for you. I've been surviving off a jar of olives for every meal for the past month. So, gimme a break. This recipe took a lot out of me and at least I'm getting and getting vegetables!
Anyways, hope you all like it! Heck, maybe I'll make that tonight…
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