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Seafood Pasta Recipes
Pasta and seafood make a great combination for different delicious recipes. Here are some sumptuous seafood pasta recipes that could be a wonderful treat for your family members.

Cold Pasta Salad Recipes
Thinking of whipping up some salads at mealtimes? Here are some easy cold pasta salad recipes you can try at home!

Easy Pasta Recipes - Italian Pasta Salad
There are a variety of pasta salad recipes available. Try easy to make recipe for Italian pasta salad and enjoy a complete meal in minutes…

Easy Italian Pasta Recipes
Pasta is a popular dish. Here are a few easy pasta recipes that you can try out.

Spaghetti Sauce Recipes
Spaghetti with a tasty sauce is a great dish by itself. Here are some interesting spaghetti sauce recipe ideas.

Make Delicious Home Made Pasta
If you've got some time and are willing to put forth some effort, you can make your own home made pasta. The basic ingredients are: • 3/4 cup unbleached white flour • 1 egg • pinch of salt That's it. Some folks use a little (1/2 teaspoon) extra virgin olive oil in their pasta, but it is optional. This recipe makes pasta enough for 2 regular servings, so if you want more increase the amounts in the same proportions.

Springtime pasta
Pasta is not seasonal, but some of its seasonings are! Springs smells of fresh basil leaves.

Is Whole Wheat Pasta Really Healthier?
Whole-wheat pasta is generally known to be better for you because whole-wheat pasta contains the entire grain seed. Whole-wheat pasta contains vitamins, minerals and fiber, some of which are lost in the refining process when pasta is made from refined and processed flour.

History of Pasta
When most people talk about pasta, they probably think of Italy as its birth place. Historians would disagree however, and give credit to our neighbors in the east for inventing the earliest form of this much loved food.

Making The Best Sauce To Go With The Best Raviolis
Ravioli is a type of popular pasta derived from the word Ravolgere, which means 'to wrap'. A filling in between two layers of pasta dough is the basic structure of Ravioli. A common vegetarian filling is of ricotta cheese and vegetables like spinach or nettles instead of meat. It is then delicately topped with red tomato based sauce, pesto, broth and cream based sauce.

Romance And Pasta: A Match Made In Heaven?
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, why not surprise that special someone with a romantic getaway in Italy?

Misleading Food Labels
Food labels don't always tell the truth. if a bread or pasta is 100% whole wheat is by looking at the ingredients list. If the first ingredient says anything except whole wheat flour, it isn't 100% whole wheat.

Polluted Pasta Causes Toxin Alarm in Italy
Italians tucked into their pasta yesterday with a little less relish than usual after learning that 58,000 tonnes of wheat infected with a powerful natural toxin had been milled into flour and sold on to the market.

Nothing Like Mama Used to Make
In Britain, we love Italian food - but is it the real thing? No, says the Italian government. Matthew Fort on whether our pasta is fit to be on the menu.