It's in the pasta!

Philippines
March 30, 2010 6:00pm CST
It's not the sauce that is important. It is with your choice of pasta noodle! Based on my experience, no matter how good your sauce is, if you fail your pasta, then it is disaster! When you have a good choice of noodle, and cooked it al dente, then whether it's just pesto paste or a grand meatball, your dish will rock!
4 responses
mylila
@mylila (104)
• Malaysia
26 Apr 10
Yes, you're right. Pasta itself plays an important role in Italian dishes. I tried to mix macaroni with the popular bolognese sauce and they don't fit! Macaroni can't reallyabsorb the tomato and meat making it tastes bland. Bolognese is best to be eaten with spaghetti.
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pierone
@pierone (1893)
• Italy
28 Apr 10
Yes mylila, that's why we have so many different shapes of pasta! Each pasta can fit perfectly few sauces, as well as each sauce have a preferred shape of pasta ;) But as you can read over here, not all the people can appreciate the difference.
jea_pinka08
@jea_pinka08 (131)
• Philippines
31 Mar 10
What if your sauce taste like garbage and your and pasta is aldente. What's the use now of pasta. Try to eat it. then your world rock. It's in the sauce not in pasta! OK, do you understand what I mean. Before you start discussion think first!
jhonnaroxas
@jhonnaroxas (92)
• Philippines
31 Mar 10
Woa! That's mean.. I respect your opinion but try to understand mine. I think you are the one who better think first before responding.. Anyways Thanks.
pierone
@pierone (1893)
• Italy
28 Apr 10
Oh, so in your opinion is just the sauce. Then why you don't use noodles instead of pasta, with a good souce, should be the same, right? I guess if your souce taste like garbage it means you aren't able to cook, then better you go in a restaurant. But if the sauce is good, as it should be, you can still totally waste your dish with a bad quality of pasta, or a wrong cooking time.
Ifamous
@ifa225 (14459)
• Indonesia
6 Apr 10
that is a nice suggest, i will choose the best pasta in town. I ever experience this before, my pasta was over cooked and it was not yummy to eat.
jhonnaroxas
@jhonnaroxas (92)
• Philippines
7 Apr 10
Thanks Ifa, maybe our experience lead us to say so. :)
eileenleyva
@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
11 Apr 10
Very true. When I prepare for parties or for requests from friends or students, I always use San Remo. For weekly spaghetti or carbonara or baked cacroni, I use del Monte. When I am a bit broke, I substitute Royal noodles. The others, like Fiesta, are malagsa (no direct translation but it is somehow soiled).
jhonnaroxas
@jhonnaroxas (92)
• Philippines
11 Apr 10
Hello eileen, I bet you mean soggy and I totally agree. ^_^