Week 11-Pasta

My favorite food is pasta. Pasta is generally accepted and being an Italian food. Thank you, Italy. The two basic categories are dry pasta, cooked without eggs and able to store for up to two years, and fresh pasta which must be eaten within a few days. It is made from wheat and some types of pasta have other ingredients, like eggs, added in. When made from scratch, noodles are made by preparing a dough, cutting it into strips, and putting it through a pasta grinder that evens and thins the strips. The noodles are then left out to dry and then boiled. Isn’t pasta cool?? Pasta is so fun to eat too! And there is like…a million different kinds of noodles. You can choose from manicotti, penne, ditalini, fettuccine, rigatoni, ziti, fiori, rotini, tortellini, gnocchi! Just to name a few. There’s stuffed pasta, long pasta, skinny pasta, shaped pasta, wheat pasta, and even designer pasta. I can honestly say that I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been to a restaurant that offered pasta and ordered something else. Pasta has never failed me. Whether it’s Kraft Macaroni & Cheese or one of everything at Brick Oven, pasta is always a good choice. Any kind of pasta will do, as long as it’s served with a white sauce. Not red. The only times I can remember not liking pasta were when it was served in a marinara sauce. I’m not a fan. It’s so tomatoey…Alfredo sauces are so superior in every way. Remember this next time you’re at a restaurant, imagine that big plate of toasty warm pasta served with garlic bread and meatballs coming your way. It won’t take long for you to figure out what you’re ordering.

It was kind of hard to make pasta interesting to read about, thus the tone I used in this. I know it’s unprofessional and far from academic. However, anyone reading this probably figured out that I freaking love pasta. That was my main intention. I organized it by topic: History and facts about pasta, types of pasta, and my opinions about pasta. Now go eat some pasta.