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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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365 Ways to Cook Pasta

By Marie Simmons
Harpercollins - 1996

Another good pasta salad. Two of us ate it all for dinner, although that was a bit piggy.

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A good pasta salad. I usually use broccoli instead of green beans and cuke instead of celery for crunch.

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Healthy? Maybe not. Tasty? Yes.
And can probably be made with stuff you have in house whenever you have some nice salami wanting to be used.
I usually use shorter pasta, rather than spaghetti.
Also, half of the butter&olive oil specified (with a note to try all olive oil next time).

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From the pantry and fast.
Made more or less a full recipe with half the spaghetti as dinner for two.

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From the pantry. Good and fast.

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Good, fast, from the pantry if bacon is available. (Lardons would probably work too.)

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A good take on a classic. Easy.
I used (homemade) seedless tomato sauce.

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Good.
I used dried mixed shrooms. Added the red bell pepper to the sautéed veggies, just at the end (to avoid them being completely raw).

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Good and fast.
Half recipe made lots of two.
Freeze up extra sauce.

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Good.
Green pasta would be pretty.

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A good pasta salad. I've used panga cut in strips in place of shrimp. That works too.

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Pretty and tasty.
Serves 2 as a one-dish dinner for two.
Half the butter is sufficient.

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Half recipe was a fast dinner with a salad.

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Really yummy. I'm not a chicken liver person, but this was good.
- Had 285g of chicken livers, so made a double recipe, out of which we'll get 6 servings rather than 8.
- Bet the bacon should really be pancetta; lardons would work too I think.
- Used some of my frozen tomato purée plus one (big) fresh tomato from the potager.
- Used fresh sage from the garden.
- Thought it needed quite a bit of salt and lots of pepper at the table.
We enjoyed.

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A good quick soup. The quality of your chicken stock makes all the difference.
Serves 2-3 as a main (rather than 6).

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Good and simple for a light dinner.

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