Traditional and non- traditional Italian pasta recipes with a gourmet touch.
Pasta recipes are everywhere. The web abounds with them. We've tried our best to bring a selection here that will round out your current file--maybe some combinations you've never thought of, hopefully. Here are some basics about pasta and pasta recipes: Homemade pasta can be really good, and fun to make if you have a good pasta machine. Here's one we recommend that is moderately priced: Villaware Pasta Machine. You can make the dough in a food processor. We use a Cuisinart and it is awesome for just about every food processing need. We’ve had ours eight years now, and we cook a lot!, so the quality is definitely there. You can also use a mixer or make it by hand. If you’ve ever watched a Biba Gaggiano cooking show on the Discovery network, you know she is a wizard when it comes to pasta making. We have several of her cookbooks. Here are two good ones that you would probably enjoy, as well.
Biba's Italian Kitchen. Here are some pasta tips from one of Biba’s older cookbooks, Trattoria Cooking. (Note: This is a good one for pasta recipes and pasta tips, but may be hard to find since it is out of print. Amazon can probably run it down for you, though, if you click on the link above): Biba’s Tips: ---------- To find information on these and other pasta and noodle types, go to the dictionary provided for your convenience here at New Italian Recipes.
Pasta And Noodle Dictionary Okay, that’s plain and simple enough, I guess. We happen to be a bit more “adventuresome" than that in our personal kitchen. Let’s just say gourmet Italian “touches”, added to traditional Italian pasta recipes, are what Italian cooking is all about at the Aunt Aletha and Dear Old Dave residence. There are techniques in many Italian cookbooks for making stuffed pastas; also, flavored and colored pastas (spinach and tomato paste, for two). It’s fun to add “taste” and color to the pasta in pasta recipes, and if you have a pasta making machine, the possibilities are truly enormous. It’s a pretty good investment if you are really into pasta. As far as cooking pasta goes, we use enough boiling water to cover the pasta over 1 1/2 times. We add a bit of salt when we add the pasta to the water. We don't rinse the pasta before adding it either to the plate, or to the sauce. Not removing the starchiness helps the sauce adhere to the pasta. Pasta cooking times vary for even different kinds of dried pasta. Typically, fresh pasta cooks in about half the time as dried. Dried pasta takes on average between 10-12 minutes to reach al dente. If we can't tell by looking how done the pasta is (we usually can), we just taste a piece. When a recipe calls for cooking pasta "al dente", that means to remove the pasta from the boiling water just before it is done to your taste. We like to add the hot pasta right to the sauce pan in most cases, then combine it well before serving. Al dente is perfect for this technique. And, nothing goes better with pasta than fresh made bread. If you would like to make your own bread, and you don’t have a bread machine, here is our suggestion and two cookbooks to help.
Breadman's Bread Machine. Buon appetito always! (New) Pasta With Roasted Vegetables Sardinian Pasta With Pork, Hard Salami And BrandyTomato Sauce Spiral Eggplant Pasta With Sausage
Baba Ghanouj Pasta
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