Simple and Easy Cooking With Pasta

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