I love Italian cuisine. It's probably my favorite. Do you know anything about the art of preparing Italian dishes?
Oh yes, I've looked up many recipes and made many dishes before. So much of it involves pasta, vegetables, olive oil, and fish.
What is your favorite Italian dish to prepare? Do you like to use fresh garlic?
My favorite is actually the one I made a few days ago. Its only ingredients were fresh garlic, parsley, olive oil, and pasta.
Oh that sounds delicious! I love a simple pasta dish. I think I could survive on pasta alone. Do you make your own pasta or do you use fresh or boxed?
pasta secca") and fresh ("pasta fresca"). Most dried pasta is produced commercially via an extrusion process, although it can be produced at home. Fresh pasta is traditionally produced by hand, sometimes with the aid of simple machines. Fresh pastas available in grocery stores are produced commercially by large-scale machines.
Both dried and fresh pastas come in a number of shapes and varieties, with 310 specific forms known by over 1300 documented names. In Italy, the names of specific pasta shapes or types
In Italian cuisine, chopped onions, carrots and celery is battuto, and then, slowly cooked in olive oil, becomes "soffritto". It is used as the base for most pasta sauces, such as arrabbiata sauce, but occasionally it can be used as the base of other dishes, such as sauteed vegetables. For this reason, it is a fundamental component in Italian cuisine. It may also contain garlic, shallot, or leek.
In Greek cuisine, the term sofrito refers to a specific dish native