Pasta is a much loved food worldwide, finding its place onto nearly every plate. From Asia to Europe to the Americas, everyone has found interesting and innovative uses for pasta. Pasta stores well, it can be made into many different kinds of food such like prawn primavera.

1. Pasta is a much loved food worldwide, finding its place onto nearly every plate.
From Asia to Europe to the Americas, everyone has found interesting and
innovative uses for pasta. Pasta stores well, it can be made into many different
kinds of food such like prawn primavera. It's also generally inexpensive and quite
filling. There are so many benefits to using pasta in cooking that it's hard to think
of them all. And even though some people think pasta isn't very healthy, there
are many kinds of whole grain pastas that are available that might challenge
that thinking altogether.
Pasta is a flexible food. It can be used in soups, as a main dish, in appetizers and
more. The best pasta types to use in soups are orzo, bow tie, ditilini, small shells or
even small macaroni elbows. For main dishes, most people like to use larger
noodles such as lasagna noodles, spaghetti, linguini, manicotti or large shells
that can be stuffed. One could essentially use pasta in every meal but get a
different taste based on what is added to it, from cream sauces to tomato
sauces, the dish is only limited by one's imagination.
Pasta stores well which adds to its usefulness. Dried pasta can be purchased
and stored for a fair amount of time without going bad. It's easy to purchase
many containers to store each type of pasta in and keep them in the
cupboard. Storage containers can keep your food safe from any bug problems
that might occur and having dried pasta on hand is great for unexpected
company or even disaster preparedness.
Just because pasta is inexpensive doesn't mean that it has to be boring! With so
many kinds of pasta available, you can make many kinds of fun and interesting
foods. Asian recipes might include stir fried vegetables with chicken or shrimp.
Mediterranean recipes might include slow simmered tomato sauces with herbs
and spices. Americans love to add pasta to casserole dishes. Thousands of
combinations exist, with creative recipes to suit nearly every taste. Of course, if
you prefer plain old macaroni and cheese or ramen style soup noodles, we
won't stop you.Source: Ezine Articles - April 2009