| This was a good concept for a cook book, and | | | | sauce will provide for a delicious pasta dish, a few |
| the recipes are quite good. | | | | minutes of awareness when boiling pasta is |
| Pasta | | | | essential to ensure a total success of your pasta |
| Pasta recipes for young and old alike. Not so long | | | | recipe. |
| ago rumor had it that pasta was fattening, and | | | | Macaroni and spaghetti constituted its image in the |
| many people, particularly women, avoided pasta | | | | popular mind but in Italy itself a vast range of |
| recipes afraid of putting on weight. | | | | different shapes suitable for different sauces |
| You can buy dried pasta virtually everywhere, | | | | were developed and adapted across the regions |
| and you find fresh pasta in gourmet or specialty | | | | resulting in the diverse forms in which pasta can |
| stores. The Balearic island of Eivissa, that you | | | | be found in shops around the globe today. |
| probably know as Ibiza,kept the longest the | | | | I think to be healthier, one to two cups of pasta |
| tradition of making fresh pasta at home. | | | | is enough for one meal. The most important thing |
| Most dried pasta cooks in 10 minutes, but it takes | | | | for my pasta recipes is to keep them light and |
| about 20 minutes for the water to boil. | | | | clean but give them lots of flavor. |
| You can serve a meat sauce or a lovely tomato | | | | Many of the recipes are designed to be versatile, |
| and herb sauce along with your pasta. | | | | allowing you to substitute ingredients which you |
| But try to remember that although a good pasta | | | | have in your vegetable rack or store cupboard. |