Interesting Facts About Pasta (rajiv tiwari)

Pastas, one of the tastiest of the Italian creations, are a delicacy world over! A lot of people play around with and localise their pasta recipes to their own region. Besides being such a tasty dish, pasta had a very rich background. Knowing its heritage and history makes pasta even more interesting. Next time you're trying out pizza recipes for your family, remember how much pasta must have been experimented over the ages and create your very own recipes.

- People knew how to make pasta all the way back in fourth century BC - an Etruscan tomb has images of the natives cooking it.

- People used pasta recipes for thousands of years before even thinking to use tomato sauce.

- One of the best qualities used for a recipe of pasta is Durum wheat which is grown in North Dakota.

- Fettuccine in Italian means Ribbons.

- Singaporeans too have authentic pasta recipes, their noodles are known as 'meat'.

- If you are learning how to cook pasta in different ways, you should know that there are over 600 different pasta shapes in the world.

- The recipe of pasta from scratch is very easy. To make your own pasta you just need two cups of flour and ? cup of water! After mixing, you do need to allow the dough to just sit for 20 minutes though. It allows the flour to absorb the water thoroughly.

- There are two kinds of pasta that you can use for your pasta recipes. Dried pasta, made from eggs, lasts for up to two years, whereas fresh pasta can be refrigerated for a few days.

- In the 13th century, the Pope actually used to set the standards of the pasta used by the people.

- If you've cooked more spaghetti than the recipe of pasta recommends then you can fry the extra noodles.

- Pasta originates from Paste in Italian, where they were talking about the mixture of the flour and the water.

- Thomas Jefferson brought the first macaroni machine to the USA after he came back from being the ambassador to France.

If you know how to make pasta than you know how to make a healthy meal that provides you with energy. Besides having several nutritional properties, pasta recipes are yummy dishes that can be enjoyed at any time. Go ahead, try out a recipe of pasta and see for yourself!

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Interesting Facts About Lasagna (rajiv tiwari)

Lasagna is a pasta that uses flat noodles to create layers of vegetable, meat, cheese and sauce to create a yummy dish. There are several facts about lasagna that people are completely unaware of, these facts actually make cooking lasagne a lot more interesting than it already is. Every time you try out a new lasagne recipe, remember these facts and enjoy even more!

- The plural of lasagna is lasagne. In Italy, they always only use lasagne when they refer to lasagna.

- The word lasagna authentically meant the pot in which the dish was cooked rather than the noodles itself. It is actually believed to be derived from the Greek word meaning 'chamber pot' - lasanon.

- Lasagna is only made with either flat noodles or rippled noodles.

- Lasagna was called "losyns" in Middle English.

- Lasagna is the favourite of cartoon character cat called Garfield.

- The original Lasagna recipe didn't have tomatoes since it was discovered in the thirteenth century. At that time, tomatoes weren't known in Europe.

- You can even make lasagna in the Dishwasher! Yes, believe it or not, a process actually allows you to cook the recipe without using your oven in a dishwasher.

- Some lasagna recipes can be carried out without the noodles being precooked. Layering the lasagne allows it to cook in the dish itself!

- Lasagna was responsible for a diplomatic dispute between England and Italy.

- In 2003, researchers studying the The Forme of Cury, a medieval cookery book, in the British Museum found a recipe for a type of lasagna dish prepared by chefs for the King in 1390.

- The most important 'Lasagna' to have ever lived is the late Dr Lou Lasagna, considered to be one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.

- Lasagna supposedly cost the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club a lot of money. They said the lasagna dish was responsible for costing them ?14 million after several players who ate it pie fell ill before an important match against West Ham. The players were later found to have contracted norovirus before even arriving at the hotel that served the lasagna.

- Another illness known as the lasagna syndrome, which is a computer enthusiast's term for an excess of overlapping browser windows.

- An artist known as Weird Al Yankovic did a parody of the song La Bamba and called it Lasagna.

Rajiv Tiwari is an out and out gourmet whose love of food has made him travel to all top food destinations. In this bouquet of articles Rajiv discusses some quick tips on food recipes, and shows us how you can make people enchanted with lipsmacking food recipes.lasagna

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