Thursday, March 02, 2006

Pasta Days

Pasta: An Italian food made from flour, eggs and water, formed into different shapes and usually served with a sauce. It is often sold in packets and is hard when dry and soft when cooked.

Types of Pasta

Agnolotti - Pasta wrapped like a square pad
Angel Hair - Pasta in the shape of very thin sticks, thinner than spaghetti
Annellini
Bigoli
Bucatini - Pasta in small tube shape
Cannelloni - Pasta filled with meet and cheese
Capelli
Cappelletti - Pasta wrapping meat and cheese in a hat shape, usally cooked with soup
Casareccie
Conchiglie - Pasta in the shape of shell
Cravattine
Ditali
Ditalini
Ditaloni
Farfalle
Farfalline
Fedelini
Fettucce
Fettuccine - Pasta in the shape of narrow ribbon
Fidelini
Fusilli - Pasta crooked into spiral shape
Gramigna
Lasagne - Large flat pieces of pasta
Linguine - Thin, long and flat pasta
Lumache
Macaroni- Pasta in the shape of hollow tubes
Mafalde
Manicotti - Pasta in the shape of pipe, filled with cheese and meat, usually bakes with tomato sauce
Maruzze
Mezzani
Mostaccioli - Pasta in the shape of short pipe
Noodles - A long thin strip of pasta, used especially in Chinese and Italian cooking
Orecchiette - Pasta in the shape of small ear
Orzo - Pasta in the shape of rice, usually cooked with soup
Paglia e fieno
Pappardelle - Pasta in the shape of wide ribbon, usually cooked with meat sauce
Penne - Pasta in the shape of pipe, with both ends slantingly cut
Pipe - Pasta in the shape of pipe
Ravioli - Pasta in the shape of small squares filled with meat, cheese, etc., usually served with a sauce
Rigatoni - Short bent macaroni
Risoni
Rotelle
Rotini
Spaghetti - Pasta in the shape of long thin sticks that look like string when they are cooked
Spaghettini - Pasta in the shape flatter than spaghetti
Spaghettone
Stelline
Tagliatelle - Pasta mixed with egg, in a thin, long and flat shape
Tagliolini
Taglioni
Tortellini - Pasta of small ring, with ingrediants wrapped in the shape of new moon
Tortelloni
Tortiglioni
Trenette
Tuffoloni
Vermicelli - Pasta in the shape thinner than spaghetti
Ziti - Pasta in the shape of big macaroni, or in the shape of big pipe

So, what I was cooking in the following picture?


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3 comments:

P. Birdie said...

Manicotti? Penne? Mostaccioli? They all look alike!!

Day Tripper said...

Which one? You can only give 1 answer

P. Birdie said...

Penne.

Usually I don't really concern the type of pasta, but lazy ones like me prefer those 'small pieces one' to 'long long one' as its easy to get messy if having the 'long long one'