Food Made Fast: Pasta (Williams-Sonoma)

Pasta of various kinds is one of the things that I always have in the pantry, what to do with it other than add just jarred sauce stumps me though. This book offers quick solutions to just such a dilemma.Each recipe offers simple outlined step by step instructions, with a beautiful color photograph with each one. After reading the tempting recipes and seeing the pictures, one thinks, "Yes, I can most certainly make that!" Among the 40 different recipes there is a range from traditional favorites like spaghetti alla carbonara to more dressed up fare such as gemelli with brown butter & asparagus. It also offers substituions for ingredients that may not be so readily available. For example, if you don't have broccoli rabe, then simply use broccoli florets. If you don't have Swiss chard, forget about it and use fresh baby spinach instead. The focus of this book is simple, easy fare, with a concentration on using a few fresh ingredients combined to yield the best results.The with economy in the state that it is in, pasta deserves another look. A few well chosen ingredients and the this proper guide, can have you looking forward to spaghetti Tuesdays.

I have every Marcella Hazan cookbook and Giuliano's Every Night Pasta, still, the Williams-Sonoma FOODMADEFAST PASTA recipes with text by Julia della Croce are a welcomed edition to the bookshelf. I've tried several recipies and appreciate the nuances of each, for example bucatini with pesto instead of tagliatelle or pappardelle with mushrooms instead of duck sauce and so forth.The section called "the smarter cook" has six pages of valuable and time saving tips and "the well-stocked kitched" speaks for itself. Has index. The photos are exceptional, instructions straight forward and this is another brilliant Williams-Sonoma edition one has come to expect.

I gave this cookbook to my daughter because she finally got interested in cooking and she loves it! The book is very informative, colorful, and the recipes are easy to replicate. The recipes are also fast and uncomplicated. The book also makes suggestions for substitutions in case you can't find the ingredients. We'll definitely look for more books in this series.

Easy and tasty recipes for family. Every recipe has its own picture.

The pasta in this book are totally not my cup of tea, they are seemed to not tasty and attactive.

ok

I bought this book after seeing it at a friends house. Perfect for quick and easy meals.

"Pasta: Recipes & Techniques" is a pasta-focused cookbook with some information on making fresh pasta at home. Many of the recipes included full-color pictures of the finished dish, but step-by-step pictures were rare and mainly included when discussing a new pasta-related technique. The recipes took up 102 pages of the 168 page book and covered over 120 recipes for: pasta soups, sauces, fresh pasta dishes, dried pasta dishes, dried pasta with uncooked sauces, stuffed pasta, baked pasta dishes, festive baked pasta dishes, gnocchi and dumplings, regional specialties, and pasta deserts.The beginning of the book gave a short history of pasta and an overview of the different types of pasta dishes the book had recipes for. Next were pictures of a wide variety of pasta types and descriptions of what types of sauces or foods that they were best with. We're given a recipe for egg pasta dough and told how to roll it out using a roller-type pasta machine. We're also told how to cut pasta by hand or using pasta tools, how to make 9 types of colored/flavored fresh pasta, making stuffed pasta (ravioli, pansotti, caramelle, tortelli, tortellini), and the proper cooking and draining of pasta.Overall, if you're comfortable with cooking and just want some basics to try for making pasta at home, then this book will provide that. I didn't see many recipes that appealed to me, but this wasn't an American-style pasta book but one more focused on actual Italian recipes. (Though I didn't see recipes for the pasta dishes I tried and liked while briefly visiting Italy.) Anyway, my main goal was to learn more about making fresh and stuffed pastas at home, and this gave me the tips I needed to get started.

The item is good for the value you pay for it!