Pasta is an Italian food made from a dough using flour, water and/or eggs. The dough is shaped and can be stored. Pasta is boiled prior to consumption. There are many variations of shapes and ingredients that are all called pasta. A few examples include spaghetti (solid cylinders), macaroni (tubes or hollow cylinders), fusilli (swirls), and lasagna (sheets). Pasta can also denote dishes in which pasta products are the primary ingredient, served with sauce or seasonings. The word comes from Italian pasta which shares its origins with "paste", meaning "dough", "pasta", or "pastry" as in "small cake".

This is a great recipe for pasta lovers. Keeping the base recipe the same, several of the ingredients can be substituted for other meats, veggies or noodles.

There are as many versions of lasagna as there are cooks. Filling ingredients vary; but there are two main sauces used, a red and a white. You can alternate them between the layers of pasta and filling. Start with red on the very bottom and ending with white on the top; but do it the way you like it best. That's the Italian grandmother's way!

This is a recipe for an easy quick American version of Pasta Carbonara. You can have it on the table in 30 minutes, including garlic bread. Great for a cold night!

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Sausage is delicious and versatile! There are many things one can do with sausage as a main dish, or as a compliment to another featured item in a main course meal. Hot or sweet sausage goes great with pasta in a meat sauce, breakfast sausage is awesome with eggs or pancakes, and chorizo is fantastic with pasta and pesto.