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Pasta e Fagioli from Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

An easy and delicious soup. I used lardons for the meat. We were thinking that chicken sausages would be good, saucisse de volaille or merguez de volaille, cut in quarters lenghtwise, then into little... read more >

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The Top One Hundred Pasta Sauces

By Diane Seed, Robert Budwig
Ten Speed Press - 2004

Very tasty, hearty pasta dish.
- I used homemade whole wheat tagliatelle using Diana Kennedy's recipe for Whole Wheat Pasta.
- All the recipes in this book are supposed supposed to serve 4 as a main. I made a half recipe and we will have 3 servings, or probably tonight's 2 mains and 2 sides later.
- I used broccoli, zuke, and chinese cabbage, with a somewhat aged Comté (on sale, thank you) for the cheese.

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Made a half recipe for two. Tasty and fast.
- Used some whole wheat penne-like pasta.
- It might be nice to cut the zuke differently. Maybe in thicker slices, then into matchsticks.
- A sprinkle of red pepper flakes on the sautéing zukes might be nice.
- Mozzarella melting from the pasta heat -- ha! I've never done this that didn't end up with a chewy white mass in the pan. In this case, it "dissolved" when I added the egg and zuke. Magic.
A nice, easy dish.

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Quite tasty, and easy, but the mozzarella didn't want to melt into a sauce. Maybe I should have grated it, or made smaller cubes, but with lots and lots and lots of stirring it ended up a stringy mess that would have been quite acceptable on a pizza, but not in a pasta sauce.

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