try and contain your total and uncontrollable excitement at the title of this post!
Since I moved to Italy I have lived out the very real stereotype of Italians eating pasta every day. In fact, they eat pasta here as a starter, before their main course of meat or fish. And with a kilo of it costing just 80cents in the supermarket, you can't really argue against it. But I feel that I have therefore eaten my yearly limit of pasta in just two short months. Perhaps even my two yearly limit? Either way, I've had rather a lot.
And thats also because they have around 100 different types of pasta here (though I haven't spied any wholewheat yet), each with a different name. I found 5 different types of spaghetti the other day, and consequently had a mini meltdown in the store trying to decide which one I should buy - I eventually went with number four, by the way. It's a bit more square-ish than your regular spaghetti shape, and takes a little longer to cook. Don't even try and pretend that my spaghetti lessons don't fill your whole being with excitement and joy.
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Anyway, everytime I go to carrefour, I try a new shape. And now I am going to share my weekly adventure into new shapes of Italian durum wheat flour with you, you lucky, lucky people!
So this weeks pasta is number 86: Pipette Rigate
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I bought this one to try and make some maccaroni and cheese (couldnt find actual maccaroni, this was the next best thing on the shelf) but it didn't work anyway because Sicily is seriously lacking a good cheddar/cheese with any sort of flavour at all.
p.s. A quick wikipedia search led me to this: "Pasta is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine, with the first reference dating to 1154 in Sicily."
SICILY! So, really, it's only right that I continue to feast on the cheap, reliable, staple food of this strange and wonderful island everyday! When in Rome... or Sicily in fact... You know what I mean.
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