For days when your fridge lacks ingredients, you can make a delicious meal following this principle: any dressing you would eat with a spoon will be delicious over pasta.

Mixing a pot of al dente pasta with chopped dill, blanched beans, butter, and a glug or two of green goddess salad dressing gives you a perfect pasta sauce for your noodle dish.

This dressing concoction will coat each noodle with a creamy, glossy, grass-green sheen while the added beans and dill give some texture and freshness.

Over pasta, the dressing is a perfect combination of tangy and creamy. The taste is similar to classic pesto, which can be furthered by adding some basil and toasted pine nuts.

For other salad dressing and pasta pairings, Greek dressing would work well over cavatappi with feta, while Balsalmic vinegarette would be tasty over farfalle with mozzarella.

Like green goddess, buttermilk-herb dressing would lend an acidic, vegetal note to stands of bucatini, but indeed, the possibilities are endless.