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Easy Pasta Recipes Blog

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Red Pepper Pesto Recipe – Red Bell Pepper Pesto – Italian Red Pesto

This red pepper pesto recipe produces a flavorful, rich red pasta covering with a little peppery bite. My advice? Cook a big batch and freeze some portions, so you never have to go without.

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Tomato Meat Sauce

This is an AWESOME tomato meat sauce and i recommend it with fresh spaghetti or rigatoni. It's great for family meals or when you are cooking for others.

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Easy Spaghetti Sauce Recipe - Recipe For Spaghetti Sauce - Simple Spaghetti Sauc

This easy spaghetti sauce recipe combines super-sweet grilled red bell peppers with silky extra virgin olive oil and your choice of seasoning (garlic, chili, oregano, you decide!).

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I couldn't get the darn thing to work right!

Everytime I tried to cut the pasta, it never had a clean cut; by that I mean, the ridge was showing where the strips started and stopped, but it wasn't

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What does oil do in pasta dough?

Hi Matt - what is the purpose of oil in pasta dough? Is it to make it softer? Or to keep it from sticking? Thanks! Answer: Hi there! Well it's certainly

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Easy Spaghetti Dish With Sweet Red Pepper – Red Bell Pepper Recipe

Gloriously simple yet super-scrumptious, this simple spaghetti dish is made with strips of sweet red bell pepper, coated in extra virgin olive oil, and your choice of herbs, chili or garlic.

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Wedding Cake Pasta Plan

Ingenius!

Kalleen from atsecondstreet.blogspot.com used a pasta machine to roll out a wedding cake's fondant.

So on her behalf, thanks Marcato for the sturdy steed of a machine.

And thanks Kalleen for such a fun post (and generally wonderful site)...

:-)

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3rd generation using the same Imperia machine

This is a truly a battleship of a pasta machine. Ours is at least 50 years old and is like new. Just simple care and lots of use. My grandkids will still

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Italian Ricotta Cheese Recipes - Pasta & Ricotta Recipes

Delicious Italian ricotta cheese recipes featuring succulent pasta. If you need ricotta recipes and love pasta, you will adore these easy guides!

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Lello Pasta Maker – Info & Buying Advice - Lello Pasta Maker 3000 Pro

Learn about the Lello Pasta Maker 3000 Pro, including price and product info, buying links, and alternative models.

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The 50 Best Cookbooks

Interesting... the UK's Guardian newspaper has just published its list of The 50 Best Cookbooks.

best pasta makerRead it here.

There is one Italian cooking tome in the top 10 - Marcella Hazan's The Classic Italian Cookbook.

You can find it on Amazon US here, or Amazon UK here.

Have you read it? Use it often?

Do let me know... if you'd like to write a review I will happily add it to my site along with your considered thoughts!

Otherwise, which Italian cookbook do you most love? One of these...?


Crunchy & Creamy Pasta Recipe – Almond Pasta Recipe – Sicilian Pasta Recipe

This veggie-friendly creamy pasta recipe comes from Sicily and features crunchy toasted almonds and breadcrumbs, onion and basil. Easy to prepare and super moreish – you have been warned!

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Pasta thicker than thick spaghetti?

I need a type of pasta that's shaped like spaghetti but thicker than thick spaghetti. Any advice? Reply: Sure thing... a couple of variations specific

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Sicilian Veggie Pasta – Sicilian Pasta Recipe -Quick Veggie Pasta From Sicily

Who knew veggie pasta with cauliflower could taste so good? Direct from Sicily, this warm, slightly spicy dish is 100% pure pasta pleasure.

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Pasta cooking, is this safe?

I'm currently cooking some tube pasta and some metal fell in it after the lid to the pot broke. This lid is about a year old and a small rubber washer,

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How to made nice and simple organic pasta for cancer patient (my hubby)

I've never cooked in my life so please teach me in a simple and understandable way..... Jeanie. Reply: Hi Jeanie. I'm very sorry to hear about your husband.

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Imperia Restaurant Electric Pasta Machine – Info & Buying Advice - Electric Past

Learn about the professional Imperia Restaurant electric pasta machine, including price and product info, buying links, and alternative models.

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Soupy seafood pasta recipe... ?

Hi Matt, I had a soupy seafood pasta lunch at Omars in Ashland Oregon. The dish had shrimp, clams, steamer clams, scallops, chunks of lobster and crab,

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Atlas Pasta Machine With Motor – Review & Buying Advice

Learn about the electric version of the Marcato Atlas pasta machine here. Includes price advice, buying links, and other competitor information.

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Buy Pastastic - The Recipe Book - Mouth-watering pasta recipes you can make!

Get Pastastic – The Recipe Book and become an Italian pasta recipe expert!

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