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You guys! I forgot to mention that my mom published a pasta cookbook a few days ago. It's her 6th cookbook (7 if you include coauthorship). Really, really good recipes, many of them healthy and low fat, as that's the natural tendency of classical Italian cooking. There's also a chapter that includes chocolate pasta variations. Yes, more than one type of chocolate pasta.
In the name of carbloading, please check it out. Also, you can find her Twitter @francinesegan.
http://www.amazon.com/Pasta-Modern-Inspired-Recipes-Italy/dp/1617690627/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1380407496&sr=8-1&keywords=pasta+modern
I'm so proud of her. Also, as personal tester of recipes, let me recommend the 'Cheapskate Pasta' (nuts and raisins and tomato in pasta, very tasty and easy) and also most of the recipes from the seafood chapter. Also pasta sushi.
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WOW that's great! Congratulate her for us
You come from a family of very talented people, Scap. That explains you. The book looks beautiful. I love pasta. I will have to put this book on my Christmas list of gifts.
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Congratulations to your mom! That book looks really neat.
I've decided to try to make my own pasta for the first time this week-- all I want for carb-loading is homemade pasta and I figure there's no time like the present to teach myself how to make it.
Barking Mad To Run
Way to go, Mom!
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A store here makes it daily which has spared me the carnage that would surely ensue were I to attempt my faves mushroom and spinach stuffed ravioli!
Pasta works excellent for carb loading though, as does rice and potatoes yum!
Hip Redux
Growing up eye-talian means I got a lot of homemade, fresh pasta of all types.
The irony is now I can't eat gluten without it making me sick.
But congrats to your mom, Scap, that's really cool!
Nice. Thanks for sharing!
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Growing up eye-talian means I got a lot of homemade, fresh pasta of all types. The irony is now I can't eat gluten without it making me sick. But congrats to your mom, Scap, that's really cool!
http://www.glutenfreemarketplace.ca/Felicetti-Rice-Corn-Spaghetti_p_267.html ? I just tried this type (it's new from the company) and it's dangerously tasty.
Thanks, guys! Happylily, you make me blush. That was so nice to hear.
Village people
That is so cool!
Wickedly Average
A pasta cookbook? Mom's talkin' my language!
Tom (formerly known as PhotogTom)
5K - 25:16, 10K - 55:31, 15K - 1:20:55, HM - 1:54:54
Just like Happylilly, it's going on my Christmas list since I usually prepare the dinners in my family. Congrats to your mother!
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Had a chance to look it over and a few of her other ones, impressive!
Say, weren't you in one of her books? As a kid perhaps?
What time should we be at your mom's house for Sunday dinner?
Dave
@DaveP, I don't know if you live in the area, but actually, my mom does lectures with food samples all across the country. Where are you located? I can let you know if she'll be giving a talk with food around there.
Had a chance to look it over and a few of her other ones, impressive! Say, weren't you in one of her books? As a kid perhaps?
LRB, There is a picture of me in Italy in one of the books, and a picture of my brother and his girlfriend in the pasta book, because they helped her make some ravioli. My brother is a computer programmer and very meticulous, so he was amusingly OCD about the quality of his ravioli.
But you're probably thinking of the book for which I was child model:
The sad part of that story was that I actually thought I got to keep the kitten.