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Super Easy Pasta!, The Editors of Good Books
Super Easy Pasta! offers 75 easy recipes for all your favorite pasta dishes. Whether you like to prepare dinner on the stovetop or in your slow cooker, Instant Pot, or oven, there are plenty of delicious options here. These recipes use ingredients that are inexpensive and easy to find at your local grocery store. With each recipe, you'll find the approximate prep time (usually 15 minutes or less) and cooking time, so you'll know exactly what you're getting into before you start. Icons on the top of each recipe page indicate whether the dish requires a slow cooker, Instant Pot, stovetop, or oven. With vegetarian, beef, chicken, and seafood options, there's something here for everyone!
The Pasta Codex : 1001 Recipes, Vincenzo Buonassisi
Vincenzo Buonassisi's landmark work, the culmination of decades of collecting and compiling authentic regional Italian recipes, represents a lost gem of classical Italian gastronomy, today returned to its original glory for an all-new audience. Featuring the first-ever translation of all 1,001 recipes, The Pasta Codex is a complete, authoritative look at one of the world's favorite foods. Incorporating recipes and research from every region of Italy, using every noodle shape and form - flat, shaped, rolled, stuffed - and both dried and fresh pasta, there's never been a more authentic and exhaustive look at pasta.
The Glorious Pasta of Italy, Domenica Marchetti
Celebrating pasta in all its glorious forms, author Domenica Marchetti draws from her Italian heritage to share 100 classic and modern recipes. Step-by-step instructions for making fresh pasta offer plenty of variations on the classic egg pasta, while a glossary of pasta shapes, a source list for unusual ingredients, and a handy guide for stocking the pantry with pasta essentials encourage the home cook to look beyond simple spaghetti. No matter how you sauce it, The Glorious Pasta of Italy is sure to have pasta lovers everywhere salivating.
Lasagna: A Baked Pasta Cookbook, Anna Hezel, and the Editors of Taste
Whether you're craving a meatball lasagna, keeping it stupid simple with a slow cooker spinach lasagna, or hosting brunch with an eggy carbonara lasagna that shouts "Hello!" from the center of the table, you'll find plenty of new ways to cook the classic dish in Lasagna- A Baked Pasta Cookbook. In addition to a lasagna recipe for every occasion, the book features many creative ideas for what to eat with it, including the perfect iceberg lettuce salad you've ordered a million times in Italian restaurants, pillowy garlic knots, and a tiramisu for the twenty-first century. A baked pasta chapter delivers non-lasagna showstoppers, like skillet-baked spaghetti and timpano. With 50 recipes, mouth-watering photography, and plenty of tips, Lasagna is a detailed and delicious celebration of a baked pasta icon.
An A-Z of Pasta, Rachel Roddy
This is the story of pasta. Here award-winning food writer Rachel Roddy has lived and cooked in Rome for over a decade. She has spent years browsing bucolic Italian markets, cooking with fresh and seasonal vegetables, discovering cheeses, and perfecting the art of making Italy's favorite food: pasta. Now, she has condensed everything she's learned about pasta in a practical, alphabetical, highly entertaining collection of pasta and pasta sauce recipes that will ensure authentic Italian meals and take your pasta dishes to the next level. In this cookbook, you will learn the many ways to pair pasta shapes with sauce, how to make certain pastas from scratch, and how to best serve them--from Cavatelli with Sausage, Tomato and Mint to Capelli with Shrimp. There are also short essays that weave together the history, culture and the astonishing variety of pasta shapes from the tip to the toe of Italy. Featuring the familiar favorites--pesto, ragù and carbonara--and new twists on classics, as well as tricks and techniques for maximum flavor, An A-Z of Pasta is a glorious celebration of pasta from one of the best food writers of our time.