A Growing and Familiar Understanding With Pasta

Turn your normal day into one courageous foray for the taste buds by trying Italy's best-known export, the famous pasta. Due to its availability, you might grow worn out of the regular spaghetti, so why not try something new and enthralling for a change. Head off to a diner in Italy - or even in your own country - and order something that sounds different to you.

Try the manicotti or the cannelloni, a hefty tube of pasta that is constantly a crowd favorite. These are usually stuffed with either meat or ricotta cheese, and are jammed with delicious tomato sauce seasoned with herbs. Another is the wheel-shaped rotelle, which is often used in salads and succulent soups or drizzled with sauce. On the other hand, ravioli and agnolotti are pasta dough that are flattened and overflowing with either vegetable or lamb. A popular dish in Piedmont, Italy, this can be simply cooked by pan frying or poaching. Pasta sauces are often very flavorful and very succulent because of the use of strong additives and cheese. Among the choice ones are basil and oregano, which gives the sauces a palatable flavor that enhances the whole dish.

So the next time you feel courageous, why not try something unusual for a change. Widening the area of your culinary experience and strengthening your taste buds is a worthy task to pull off.