Lightly crush the fennel seeds in a mortar and pestle ... Reduce to a simmer and add the dried pasta. Stir the pasta in, making sure it is covered in the sauce and cook for eight minutes.

A quick and easy pasta dish that's sure to be a weeknight winner. Pork sausages and fennel are a match made ... spoon to transfer the pasta into the sausage pan and stir everything together.

One "Barefoot Contessa" pasta that I've always wanted to try is her rigatoni with sausage and fennel. Trent Pheifer, a fellow Garten superfan, has made all 1,272 of her recipes — and he told me ...