Some nights dinner just needs to happen. No special trip to the store, no three pans going at once, no recipe that falls apart halfway through. This Ground Beef Pasta is that dinner.

The whole thing — beef, sauce, pasta — cooks in one skillet. The pasta absorbs the broth and tomato as it simmers, so the flavor goes all the way through, not just on the surface. Stir in the cheese at the end and it comes together fast.

I’ve made this Ground Beef Pasta on nights when I had nothing left in me and it still turned out good. That’s the real sell. Thirty minutes, one pan, and nobody at the table is complaining.