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My favorite I think would have to be penne w/ fresh peas, a little crisp pancetta and good fresh ricotta..... sooo good.

Oh that's too hard a question! A Holy Grail dilemma. Ravioli . . . . no wait, spaghetti with Bolognese . . . . Ahhhhhhhhhhh

home made gnocchi with brown sage butter, the simple high expression of food...that is the beauty of pasta! Buon Apetito!!

Anything leftover (spaghetti, linguine, bowties,wagon wheels, penne, ziti) cold with ketchup. Heinz, not the other wannabee, gonnabee ketchups.

I love a good lasagna-- the old fashioned kind, but with hot italian sausage in place of the meat. A friend of mine did just make some incredible homemade ravioli filled with, very simply, ricotta, mint, and spring peas. It was fantastic!

Rigatoni with a simple marinara sauce made by simmering good quality canned tomatoes (or fresh) with thyme, garlic, shallots and butter until tastes right (I can't remember, but I think the basis for this sauce came from an Amateur Gourmet post) . With fresh Parmesan grated on top, and maybe fresh basil if I have some.

The hilarious part is that anyone who tastes it always comments on how light and fresh the sauce it, and how satisfying it is without any meat. With the butter in there it sure isn't waist-friendly. Its a good illustration of why restaurant food tastes so good- and how many calories can be hidden in something as simple as a tomato sauce.

So I just make it for special occasions :)

I have two:

1. Linguine with spicy red sauce and all kinds of shellfish. Some restaurants call this dish something like "frutti del mare" or something fancy like that.

2. Just spaghetti with (good) olive oil, salt, pepper, and tuna. Tasty, and easier to prepare than a can of Franco American.

I love the classic spaghetti and meatballs with a simple marinara. Plus garlic bread.

very tough question at the moment it is pasta carbonara, usually after a night of drinking in the wee hours of the morning

Stuffed shells, meat or cheese.

My favorite pasta dish is Filetto di Pomodoro.

Penne with lemon cream sauce, fresh peas, and a bit of good parmesan

While my mom's meat and veg heavy spagetti ties with pretty much all forms of gnocchi for second place, my favourite has to be pasta puttanesca - I just love the anchovies!

My ex mother in law's bolognese sauce, almost too much work, but that first bite is so good you forget how long it took.

pappardelle with veal ragu - yumm!!!

penne a la vodka

OR bowties with garlic, olive oil, oyster mushrooms, pine nuts and fresh grated parm.

mmmm

my favorite is capellini with my marinara sauce and fresh grated parmesan on top.

Pasta Da Vinci from The Cheesecake Factory: Penne Pasta with Chicken, Mushrooms, Onions and Garlic in Madeira Wine Sauce, sooooo good!

Fortunately I have leftovers in the fridge right now, otherwise I'd probably drive the 90 miles to get some after getting my taste buds going!

i love linguine with my friend ann's red meat sauce...ground beef, pepperoni AND sausages!

I love linguine with olive oil, garlic, lemon, artichokes, sundried tomatoes, olives, and some greens that I might have kicking around. A little grated pecorino and it's amazing!

Pasta Haiku

My favorite dish:
Sausage, red sauce, lots of cheese
a la Sopranos

The noodles, you ask?
Small, 2-inch tubular shells
Straight; unlike elbows

Not the most healthy
Moderation is the key
I know my limits

But deny me this,
“What, no F@#*in’ ziti now?”
Hell to pay, for sure

Ravioli di patate al ragu...from Trattoria Mario in Florence, right off the central market piazza. Ravioli, filled with potatoes, topped with delicious delicious ragu. Can't go wrong there.

Ravioli stiffed with duck confit.

Definitely linguine with good, homemade basil pesto. It's been my favorite since I was little.

i could eat nothing but pasta for the rest of my life and never get bored; but if i had to pick just one: fettuccine alfredo with fresh pasta and a nice big hunk of parmesan, cut fresh from the wheel.

My current favorite is penne with an uncooked tomato sauce and fresh mozzarella. Yum!

i think what i like best about this thread is how many times the words "mom" and "grandmom" came up. :)

My father's summertime pesto - seasonal, fresh, life-altering.

I really love angel hair pasta with homemade tomato sauce made from ingredients fresh from the garden (preferably by someone other than myself).

It's hard to beat a good ligurian pesto with roasted green beans and new potatoes with garganelli.

thin spaghetti with sauce of olive oil, lots of garlic, and tomato paste.

home-baked elbow macaroni & cheese. perhaps not a "proper" pasta dish, but my favorite nonetheless

It's got to be a tie between bucatini alla Amatriciana and linguine bolognaise.

Favorite Italian Pasta would have to be Pasta Carbonara....

However, Favorite Asian variety would have to be a seafood pad thai....I'm Polish, so Kluski with Bacon or pirogies are favorites there.....and since I am also german, kasespatzle is a traditional fave.

I am surprised that entries are limited to the Roman sphere of influence.

My favorite has to be my go-to pasta - fresh linguine with my homemade sauce of tomato, garlic, onion, artichoke, sun-dried tomato, olives and fresh basil

My favorite pasta for a special occasion meal is actually from the first Al Forno cookbook - a baked penne with four cheeses and basil. Ridiculously over-the-top, calorically, but simple to make, delicious, and impressive.

My everyday favorite is whole-wheat cavatelli with turkey sausage, arugula, and cherry tomatoes - delicious, nutritionally sane, and I can make it pretty much in my sleep.

My favorite pasta for comfort-food occasions is sort of a poor man's carbonara - I take olive oil in which some garlic has been smashed and browned and then removed, and then, just as the pasta is done, I break two eggs into the hot oil, mix the barely-cooked eggs and oil with the hot pasta, and top it all off with lashings of black pepper and some Parmesan cheese.

Well that would have the be stuffed eggplant parmigiana. Stuffed with mushrooms and ricotta cheese.

penne with fresh sauce made from home grown tomatoes.

Orreichete with fried chickpeas and rapini with white wine/pepper flake/garlic/olive oil sautee..

that or fusilli with fava beans and geonese pesto (with the potato cubes and watercress?)

Penne ala vodka with ribbons of prosciutto runnin through it.

Thin spaghetti and meat sauce

Stuffed Rigatoni (ricotta cheese mixture) in vodka sauce

i have a special place in my heart/stomach for vegetarian lasagna. homemade sauce, lots of cheese, and a nice assortment of tasty veggies: irresistable!

orrechiete with sausage and broccoli rabe. there is no other choice

How difficult is this question?

My first reaction was spaghetti carbonara, since it's so damn easy to make and so comforting, but I suspect it's only mitigating my deep, unrequited love for fettuccine alfredo.

Then there's lasagne -- yes, my favorite pasta dish is leftover lasagne.

Penne with rabe, garlic, good evoo and peperoncini. Simple, filling, and delish,

aj

good old traditional manicotti. mmmm

Bowties (!) with pesto, grilled chicken, roasted red peppers, kalamata olives, toasted pine nuts and a hearty sprinkling of fresh Parm! Of course witha aisde of crusty Italian peasant bread....mmm.

Baked ziti, a variety of ingredients!

Tagliatelle with butter and truffles. Also oriechette with carrots and swiss chard.

My favorite pasta is Penne all Arrabbiata (if it is Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday) or Bucatini alla amatriciana (if it is Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday). Really.

My favorite of all time would have to be Spaghetti Carbonara. But really, is there such thing as bad pasta as long as it is made ready-to-eat? There is nothing more enjoyable than making a quick sauce with simple but good quality ingredients available in your fridge and pantry. Just the other day, my husband added a third of a cup of red wine to a meat sauce i was making and the result was a deliciously robust and comforting pasta meal.

Definitely Penne with "Alfredo" sauce - but using Monterrey Jack cheese instead.

Spaghetti with olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper, fresh basil and parmigiano. A little crushed red pepper is good too. And a nice crusty bread on the side. Well, I know what I'm having for dinner now...

The furthest I can narrow it down is to my top four: bucatini all'amatriciana at Lupa, mom's linguini with soft shell crabs; baked pasta in the pink at Al Forno; Beef Cheek Raviloli at Babbo.

Bowties with roasted vegetables along with sundried tomatoes, with a touch of cream. :)

I may have to change my previous entry...
I was in Paris over the last few days and last night had a great pasta dish with a friend in a little restaurant that we stumbled upon, very close to the Eiffel Tower (Il Sorrentino - 20 Rue de Montessuy - 7ième). I originally picked something else from the menu, but when some of the ingredients did not seem to be available (we arrived at the place at around 22:00 in the evening), I chose the same dish my friend ordered: Pennette Antonino with coquilles St.-Jacques & Parmigiano flambeed with Grappa.
We were sitting on the pavement outside, the temperature was still very nice out for this time of the year, when a table was rolled outside with a whole Parmigiano cheese on it on its side. It was cut open on top and hollowed. The Maitre D' brought a copper pan out with Grappa that was already in flames and poored this into the Parmigiano cheese. The hot Grappa melted the cheese. He scraped the melted cheese off with a spoon and added cooked small penne that had scallops and tomato pieces over them. He kept stirring in the mixture as to add more cheese so that we got to a sauce that was very creamy.
We both ate our dish with much contentment. We drank a nice white wine with that: Falangina Sorrentina and also had an Italian sparkling water: Ferrarelle. Definitely an address I will remember when I get back to that neighbourhood!

Gnocchi. Best with sage and butter sauce. tomato sauce will do too. With Plenty of grated cheese. A nice Chianti would't hurt

My favorite has to be a great cheese tortellini soup recipe I use. I make it with lots of fresh veggies and it comes out nice and thick - kind of like Rachel Raye's "stoups" (in between stew and soup)

Pasta on a plate? New favorite is penne a la vodka

Angle Hair pasta with tomato & basil sauce with chunks of tomato and 1 big meatball

Rigatoni with my Grandmother's sauce

My favorite is a 4-cheese lasagne with béchamel sauce. It uses fontina, parmigiano reggiano, mascarpone and ricotta cheeses with walnuts for texture and additional flavor.

It's really amazingly amazing! I think I'll make it tomorrow night -- you know, after a lazy Sunday.

Nothing too fancy for me, I'm afraid, since I'm enamored by the simplicities of a well-done bolognese or vodka sauce. And due to being a graduate student with only so much time to cook and only so much money to devote to cooking, I tend to work on one or two recipes a semester to see if I can start nailing these sauces on my own rather than be at the mercy of a jar!

As such I have a decent vodka sauce going on for whenever I need to make a quick meal in around 15 minutes, and that certainly means quite a bit to me! Time to get cracking on bolognese!

I just love a good old-fashioned spaghetti & meatballs!

shrimp, good rigatoni, too much garlic, lacinato kale, chile flake.
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