I was eating the spaghetti that my ex-roomie left behind and wondered why it didn’t “feel right.” Then I realized that it wasn’t angel hair which is what I always make. It’s not that I hate other kinds of pasta like spaghetti or fettucine. It’s just that given a choice, I go with angel hair.
What is your favorite kind of pasta? I don’t include dishes like lasagne, which just incorporates pasta. Or ravioli which includes meat or cheese. Just the actual pasta itself.
In our house when I was growing up we always referred to that as Cavatini, especially if it was served with cheese on top and then put under the broiler to melt the cheese.
Yeah… you pair the pasta with the sauce. There really isn’t any kind of pasta that I dislike.
That said, I tend to prefer thicker pastas that have a little more chew in them - spaghetti over angel hair. In the right application, it’s hard to beat fettucine or penne. A pasta dish really is about eating pasta. The sauce is a condiment, used to enhance the flavor of the pasta.
Honestly, I like plain old spaghetti and macaroni the best. I’m fine with whole wheat versions of them, but I don’t like most unusual shapes, and I find angel hair too gummy for my tastes. I’ll eat adventurously in other respects, but when it comes to noodles, I’m positively Midwestern.
Yeah, I’m kind of that way, too. While I grew up on mostaccioli (essentially, penne, but I had never heard of penne in the Chicago area until much later in life–it was always mostaccioli here), and I understand the sauce dictates the pasta thing, I never saw what those types of pasta could do better than a nice, flat noodle.
There isn’t a favorite, but I don’t like “big” pasta, like big bowtie pasta. It’s a pain to eat, and you can only fit one on a spoon or fork, and anything more falls off. Even larger pasta, like big shells that get stuffed or large lasagna sheets, both of which get get cut in to pieces when eating, are OK. It’s just that range where the size is wrong.
I don’t really have a favorite, I like most of them. But my most common are linguine, penne, and rotini.
But I loathe seashells (Conchiglie). :mad:
I’ll still never understand why anybody would either want to take the time to dump out each and every one, or else get a random amount of water screwing up the sauce.