Hittin’ the sauce.

I should mention here that to my understanding tomato sauces aren’t usually paired with fresh egg pastas. It’s considered something of a no-no in Italian food circles. In my own defense, this isn’t so much a tomato sauce as it is a meat sugo with a little tomato added. Judges? I made this pasta using […]

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The Briny Deep

Hands down the most common mistake people make when cooking pasta is failing to salt their water properly. A teaspoon or two per gallon is about the maximum for most cooks. Yet that’s not nearly enough. As a good Italian friend of mine is fond of saying: it must taste like the sea! And that […]

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How to Make Pasta

I have trouble making my pasta “the authentic way”. That is, mounding up my little flour volcano, dropping eggs in the center and beating them up with a fork. I always get a breach in the wall, which sends partly scrambled egg spilling out all over the place. I don’t like the mess, but even […]

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Pasta Recipe

I know, it’s not pastry. And no, for those of you who remember the 80’s, I’m not planning on making any of those dessert pastas that were all the rage back then: chocolate lasagna, blueberry tortellini, raspberry ravioli with white chocolate crème Anglaise…what a nightmare all that was. Nope, this week it’ll be standard homemade […]

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