Pasta | Pad Patter 10.6

Ohhhhh you are speaking my language! My fav probably has to be my grandmother's stove top macaroni and cheese. My ultimate comfort food (and my boys' as well!). It has garlic . . . I'll stop there.

Love Shrimp Portofini too . . . Macaroni Grille has it on their menu and my go to when we go there.

Other favs are fettucini alfredo, and let's twist it and use a pumpkin alfredo sauce. It's available locally here and it's what's for dinner TONIGHT at my house.

 

Not me. I stopped eating pasta about 3 yrs ago and don't miss it at all. I like zoodles or spaghetti squash with the sauces. So, it's the sauces I love, not the pasta.

 

We are billeting 2 canadian hockey players- so Pasta (they say it different- P-ah-sta instead of P-aw-sta) is on the menu almost nightly here! I made something similar to the recipe you mentioned- shrimp with lemon, garlic butter sauce & fettuccini & spinach. It was SO good! My picky eaters in the house (hubby & son) usually just take their pasta plain with butter & parmesan, while the rest of us love all the sauces! Today- their pregame meal is chicken Parmesan (I'll cook extra for us for dinner after they've left for their game!)

 

pasta bakes are favourites for using up leftovers in a one pot way in our house.

I eat very low carb for the first half of the day on my new diet plan. So I've taken to making "pasta noodles" out of courgette (zucchini), squashes and carrots, to serve with homemade protein rich pasta sauces. I make the sauces in batches and store some for following days and make my raw "pasta" fresh each time.

 

LOVE a good pasta!

 

We can get noodles made from beans in the oriental supermarket. They are very low carb. Can you get hold of anything like that where you live?

 

I'm dieting so no pasta for me - but man oh man do it love it too. I cannot pick a fave dish either - I love it all. Topping the list is probably penne vodka or mushroom ravioli in a pink sauce. I love the pink or creamy sauces so much!

Spaghetti squash is a decent substitute when I want a pasta type of dish but definitely not the same!

 

It's not my favorite carb - that's dead heat between potatoes and rice - but I do love pasta. Good mac and cheese when the craving is too strong and I'm willing to pay for it, spaghetti or ravioli, even a bowl of plain eggs noodles or ramen (just salt is all I need). I'll also throw egg noodles in just about any dish, given half a chance.

 

I love pasta but I'm trying to not eat it too often. For just myself I will sometimes cook a little angel hair and top it with freshly sauteed veggies done with garlic, olive oil, a splash of lemon juice, and Italian seasoning. Or I will do angel hair with sauteed chicken, green peppers, tomato sauce with garlic, onion, and Italian seasoning.

 

Let's seeeee... I love and make a mean pasta salad,lasagna(w/2 meats and 5 cheeses!). manicotti, Mostacciol, and hubster makes fettucine Alfredo fabuloso! OH, and of course- "Pasghetti" as our eldest dubbed it.

 

I could take it or leave it. Hubby could eat it 3 times a day. His favorite is whatever I make and especially if it has my homemade sauce on it. Tonight he's getting Chicken Pesto Pasta, made in the Instant Pot, of course. But I'm substituting scallops for the chicken since that's what I have.

 

My daughter's 4 Cheese Tortellini with Alfredo Sauce, fresh Gorgonzola and fresh tomatoes on top! We go into a Carb Coma when we have it.

 

OMG YES! I love pasta in almost any shape or sauce from the simple parmesan and butter to the more complex like the above. However....groan...my Dr is always stressing the need to cut back on 'all the whites' which of course includes pasta. In my book the vegetable substitutes are vegetables. period. I like my veggies too but pasta they ain't. I'm doing a lot more walking these days so maybe soon I'll be able to have pasta weekly. Fortunately, I'm not much of a potato lover and my love of rice has diminished. btw, pizza goes right along with pasta with me. Maybe I'm just a wannabe Italian.

 

Nah, I don't care for pasta anymore. I'll have a tiny bit sometimes, when I make it for my family, but I take more of the meat and veggies than the pasta.

 

Fettuccini alfredo is my favorite! Thanks for the pasta day reminder! I made alfredo sauce to go with spaghetti tonight and I even cooked some cherry tomatoes to go with it. Yum! Pasta is my love language.