Grattoni-grattini (pasta for soup) Grattoni-grattini are tiny balls or pieces of pasta commonly added to soups, especially clear broths. This is one of about 30 different very small pasta shapes known as pastine or pastina. Pastina is a diminutive of pasta! Italians love pasta in broths and what...
Pappardelle pasta from Tuscany. Pappardelle is a regional type of egg pasta that is very like tagliatelle but much wider, about 2-3 cms. This pasta is considered a type of lasagne in the generic sense that it is wide strips of egg pasta. While tagliatelle is traditionally from Emilia-Romagna...
Passatelli: an unusual type of pasta! Although I have lived in Italy for 14 years, I only discovered passatelli last year. Probably because they’re not typical in many parts of Italy. Although you can find them in Marche and Lazio, they are considered to be essentially Romagnolo...
Homemade Pumpkin Gnocchi with Sage Butter Gnocchi di zucca al burro fuso e salvia. No matter how good ready-made store bought gnocchi are nothing quite beats the homemade version. This was not my first time making potato gnocchi, but it was my first time making homemade pumpkin gnocchi. I have...
Homemade lasagne pasta sheets (lasagna) Everybody loves a good baked lasagna (lasagne al forno to the Italians) and here on The Pasta Project there is a growing number of delicious baked lasagna recipes (yes there are different ways to make it!). However, I recently discovered that making this...
Fusilli Pasta; long, short, homemade and hollow. Most people have heard of, and probably eaten, fusilli pasta. However, did you know there is actually a fusilli family? There is the traditional short spiral pasta which originally comes from Southern Italy and a long version which Italians...
