Category: Pasta-Pizza

Rethink Ramen Noodles As “Fine Cuisine” & Types Of Ramen

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Ramen is a Japanese noodle soup made with Chinese-style wheat noodles (Chinese-style noodles are egg noodles), served in a meat or fish-based broth. In Japan, it’s all about the broth: rich, slow-simmered, beautifully-seasoned broth, often made with pork bone. And noodles: Ramen is a noodle soup. The noodles are always long wheat noodles, but can…
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RECIPE: Pumpkin Ravioli For Thanksgiving

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Make or buy pumpkin ravioli for this recipe. Photo © Liddy Hansdottir | Fotolia.   What do you do the day after Halloween? Plan for Thanksgiving! If there’s room on your menu, make pumpkin ravioli: You can serve four pieces as an appetizer. Otherwise, serve this tasty dish during November and December as a seasonal…
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PRODUCT: Prima Pasta Ravioli, Striped For The Cure

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Enjoy delicious ravioli as you contribute to breast cancer research. Photo courtesy Pasta Prima.   Ravioli (and its baked cousin, lasagne) is one of our Top 10* comfort foods, even though it isn’t on any published list we’ve seen.† While cheese ravioli can be bland, we never turn down butternut squash or pumpkin ravioli. (INSIDER…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Host A Spaghettata, An Informal Spaghetti Party

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If you’re Italian American, you may know what a spaghettata is (pronounced spa-get-TAH-tah). It’s like a cookout, but it takes place indoors, with spaghetti. In other words, it’s a spaghetti party (or simply a pasta party, if you serve a different type of pasta). It can be an impromptu lunch or dinner, following a card…
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PRODUCT: Barilla Piccolini Mini Pasta Is Great For Pasta Salad

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A plate of mini wheels (rotelle)—smaller than half a cherry tomato. Photo courtesy Barilla. Here’s the recipe for this pasta salad. Find more recipes at BarillaUS.com.   We recently tried Barilla Piccolini, a new miniature pasta line. Piccolini is the Italian word for “little ones,” referring to small children. The miniature versions of five classic…
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