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Posts tagged “spaghetti”

Blogging Cook's Illustrated: Sauces for Whole Wheat Pasta

Here's an interesting concept from the test kitchens of Cook's Illustrated: not every sauce works with whole wheat pasta. They claim that tomato, pesto, and cream-based pasta sauces clash with the hea...

Try This! Spaghetti Squash Instead of Pasta

Whether you're making an effort to eat lighter this month or just want something a little different for dinner, you've got to try this. We're not sure why it took us so long to discover this buttery, ...

Acini to Ziti: Check Out This Pasta Glossary!

Do you know which pasta is best for a casserole? Or where frilly campanelle noodles got their name? The National Pasta Association (who knew there was one?!) has put together this handy reference guid...

What's Your Favorite Pasta Shape?

Pasta comes in so many different shapes. New ones are being invented all the time, so any list of pasta shapes that I post here would probably not be up to date. The smallest shapes are often used i...

Look! Crazy Spaghetti Hot Dogs

We'll give you a virtual high five if you can figure out how these were made. They're part of a group of insane hot dogs we just found over at Woman's Day... ...

Recipe: Spaghetti with Mascarpone, Meyer Lemon, Spinach, and Hazelnuts

We had two encounters with mascarpone cheese in pasta recently. One was seeing this Tagliatelle with Spinach, Mascarpone, and Parmesan over on Jamie Oliver's website. The other was catching the tail e...

New Favorite Combination: Spaghetti and Figs

A few weeks ago, we had a dish at the restaurant Sfoglia in New York that was one of the best things we've eaten in a while. It was so Fall, so simple, and (hooray) so readily found on the Internet. G...

Recipe Review: Spaghetti with Ramps (Plus Sausage)

Last Friday we mentioned that this Spaghetti with Ramps recipe from Mario Batali looked like our kind of weekend eating. So, we made it — with a few (delicious) changes......

Seasonal Cooking: Spaghetti with Ramps

We've written about pickling them, we've sautéed them with salmon, and we've shown up late at the farmer's market and missed them... Are you tired of hearing about ramps? Well, their season i...