Much like pre-soaking lentils and beans, allowing your dried pasta to rehydrate in a little H₂O is a small ... boiling water just as you would if you were cooking it straight from the packet. However, ...

I am, to put it mildly, very passionate about pasta. For decades, I worked at Italian American restaurants lovingly referred to as “red sauce joints.” I had a fresh pasta pop-up in Los Angeles ...

Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil in a straight-sided 11-inch skillet ... adding the reserved pasta water as needed if the sauce seems dry. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Crumble the peppers ...

A classic Italian dish of pasta aglio e olio - with garlic and oil - gets a Japanese twist when you add chirimen (dried tiny whitebait) and karasumi (cured, pressed fish roe - the Japanese ...