Apartment Therapy Tagged: pasta

Weekend Project: Make Pasta!

No time like the present to get started on Resolution #1 to make pasta in the new year! This weekend, we solemnly vow to break out that dusty pasta maker and get rolling. Who's with us? Read on for a ...

Recipe: Rich No-Cream Wild Mushroom Pasta Sauce

This rich, creamy pasta sauce was the result of an experiment. We wanted to make a creamy, mushroom-y pasta topping with no cream. We're trying to watch our diet a little better, and while we were eat...

Quick Tip for Winter Soups: Save the Pasta for Last

Mushy, overcooked pasta that disintegrates on contact is the one pitfall of cool weather classics like minestrone and chicken noodle soup. Luckily, there's a simple solution: add the noodles at the ve...

Italian Ravioli Ejector Stamps from Sur La Table

We try to keep our utensil drawer lean and mean. We keep the unitaskers to a minimum. But that doesn't mean we can't look (and sigh over) a few focused tools that promise us that we'll do things like ...

Three Quick Suppers: Pasta, Broccoli, and Feta Cheese

We gave you a recipe earlier today for pasta with feta cheese and broccoli, but we blushed when we realized that this is not the second but the third pasta, broccoli, and feta cheese recipe we've publ...

Word of Mouth: Al Dente

Al Dente; adjective, Italian: Literally, "to the tooth." In practice, this means cooked just enough to still be firm, where the center still remains a bit under-cooked and the pasta still offers resis...

Quick and Easy Recipe: Lemon Pepper Pasta with Capers

Cream sauce doesn't have to be a rare indulgence; you can have that creamy goodness without going over the top. This delicate sauce relies mostly on chicken or vegetable stock, simmered down into a co...

Home Cooking: How Do You Boil Water?

One of our favorite recipes at Epicurious is, essentially, a recipe for boiled water. It has nearly 800 comments - some amused, some indignant, some clever, some silly. ...

Playing with Recipes: Pasta, Risotto-Style

Emma’s popular post on the best way to cook pasta triggered a vague memory of a no-boil method I had read about years ago. A few minutes of internet sleuthing and there it was: Alain Ducasse’s r...

Quick Tip: The Best Way to Cook Pasta

Cooking pasta doesn't exactly take a degree in rocket science. Yet so many small variations, individual techniques, and old wives tales abound that cooking a simple pot of pasta can end up feeling rat...

Sagaform's All-In-One Pasta and Parmesan Tool

We ate a big bowl of pasta last night for dinner - it was spicy and tasty with blackened chicken, kalamata olives, and feta cheese. It was a good reminder of what a comfort dish pasta can be all year ...

Entertaining Tip: Good Reasons to Serve Food Family Style

We've written about serving dinner party food in tiny, individual dishes, and now we're hitting the other end of the spectrum: family-style entertaining. There are many advantages to piling food onto ...

A Tale of Two Tax Days: Recipes for the Frugal and the Flush

It's April 15th, in case you forgot — and your accountant, spouse, parents, or every morning news anchor forgot to remind you. You may feel like crawling back into bed amidst a pile of receipts and...

Dinner Quick: Anelletti Pasta with Sausage and Greens

What are you cooking for dinner tonight? Are you casting about for a quick and easy one-bowl meal? Try this one, or a variation on it - it's just pasta, meat, and greens. ...

Trader Joe's Pantry: Anelletti Pasta

Cheerios? Tiny rubber bands? Spaghetti-Os? Nope - none of the above. This is Trader Joe's new anelletti pasta, and we're smitten. ...

Look! Name that Pasta

Think you know your fusilli from your gemelli? Can you tell the difference between stellete and pastina? Looking for a ten-minute brain diversion, we stumbled upon this fun little quiz. ...

Good Product: Fregola

Be honest, ladies. No matter how many little black dresses you have in your closet, you're still on the lookout for new and exciting ones, right? In the kitchen, we're constantly looking for those gra...

Hospitality: What Meals Do You Take to Friends?

Cooking a meal for someone else is a generous expression of love, we think. But when that meal needs to be schlepped across town to a new mom or sick friend — and possibly sit in their fridge for ...

Flickr Find: More Pasta with Mushrooms

Photo by Flickr member Hypnotic AubergineOur recipe for easy, healthy wild mushroom pasta sauce below has us dreaming about a big mess of mushrooms tonight... ...

September Best Recipes: Lemon Pepper Pasta, Peach Polenta Tart, and Basic Tomato Sauce

Looking back over September's posts we got hungry for all that late summer goodness - golden peaches, juicy plums, and spiced apple cider. Yum yum. Here are our most viewed recipes in September 2...

Recipe: Broccoli and Feta Pasta Salad

We had this warm pasta salad last weekend and it was just the thing for a spring supper, tossed with tangy olives and feta cheese, and snap-tender broccoli. We'd like to make it again this weekend and...

Recipe: Lamb Ragú

Rich, meaty ragú is not hard to make. The active part of this recipe comes together quickly, and then it sits and simmers all afternoon in the oven or all day in the slow cooker. When the mea...

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