Questions tagged [spaghetti]
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Interpretation of a braised lamb dish description from a menu
I was tantalized by the description of a braised lamb dish earlier today at an Italian restaurant at the Hyatt I am staying at.
I was expecting a braised cut of lamb covered with sauce on a bed of ...
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How to fit spaghetti in small pan without breaking it
I only started cooking for myself 2 years ago when I was 14 - one of the foods that I cook for myself every day as part of my gym diet is spaghetti, I weigh around 200g of it. I fill my largest/widest ...
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How do you measure 2 ounces of dry thin spaghetti pasta?
I tried the size of a quarter and a juice bottle with a long neck. When I cook half of what I measure as 2 ounces it is enough for me. Two ounces according to the quarter theory makes a mountain of ...
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I want to make straight spaghetti
I want my spaghetti to lie straight and flat on the plate. How will I cook the noodles without getting them all tangled up? Can I bake them in a bread pan with sauce and meat?
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Can I substitute fresh tomatoes for canned?
I'm quite new to cooking. I want to make spaghetti and all the recipes I've found for spaghetti sauce so far have required multiple types of canned tomatoes. However, I only have fresh tomatoes, ...
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How to make spaghetti stick together?
I am a person that likes spaghetti that is stuck together, al dente, so it's nice and chewy.
I haven't been able to find any advice on how to cook spaghetti so that it sticks together, but rather the ...
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Is spaghetti and bechamel sauce an authentic Italian dish?
I have seen instances where people mix white sauce / bechamel with spaghetti or macaroni but never seen a reputable chef to do so. This mix is sometimes mistaken for carbonara since its creamy white. ...
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Spaghetti Fund Raiser Lunch
How do I figure out how much spaghetti, sauce, etc that need for a fund raising lunch that is targeting 100 to 125 people...we want to be generous in our portions but no clue how much to fix, how to ...
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How long do I boil store bought or canned tomato sauce for spaghetti?
How long do I boil store bought or canned tomato sauce to use for spaghetti?
I know that tomato sauce can be cooked in cans that are available from the grocery store. Why should it take 4-6 hours?
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It seems, acidity prevents pasta from being overcooked?
Usually I cook the pasta in boiling water... add it to sauce in the pan, another 2-3 minuts and done.
But today I've tried to cook pasta in the sauce.
Sauce: pepper + onion + garlic + flour + ...
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Is there any difference between wholewheat pasta and wholewheat sphaghetti besides the shape?
I'm asking about the plain food as you would buy from the shop which has no extra ingredients. It seems to me they are both pure wheat just in different shapes. Is that correct or has one been ...
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Meatballs and Spaghetti in the InstantPot separately
I am pretty much a newbie at pressure cooking.
I've been following this recipe for meatballs and spaghetti, and it comes out great. The thing is that my kids would prefer that the spaghetti is not ...
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How is this machine used? (for, I think, peeling the skin from the tomatoes)
I received as a gift this machine, which I am told is used to make spaghetti sauce. I believe that its purpose is to remove the skin of the tomatoes, but it simply looks like a grater....
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Is there a known 'lifehack' to facilitate the picking back up of the bay leaves after cooking with them?
I'm about to do a Spaghetti sauce batch this afternoon, and I can't seem to remember a life hack that I read that made it so you didn't have to go through you sauce and pick the bay leaves one by one.
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Making Carbonara in Canada; what kind of cream should I use?
I was making Carbonara today: bacon was getting crisp, tossed a bit of chopped shallot, some butter, till it was time to add the cream.
The closest I found at the store was half-and-half.
In front of ...
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