• Unless you have a consistent supply of pasta or a very good eye, the only way to tell whether store-bought pasta is done is to taste a bit of it. Dried pasta can be three months old or three…
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Boiling
• Pasta should be cooked “al dente” which translates from Italian as “to the tooth”. This means that it should remain tender crisp before use. If you cook pasta too long, though, it gets unpleasantly gummy. • The main rule…
Serving
• At the end, it’s best to top the dish with grated cheese parmesan (except dishes with seafood), freshly ground pepper and a sprinkle of olive oil. Lunch is served! • When creating an impromptu pasta dish, remember that “less…
Food Accompanying
Italians will tell you it’s pasta with sauce — not sauce with pasta! Too much sauce buries the flavor of the pasta and overwhelms it. Most pasta sauces — there are certainly exceptions — can be made in the time…