Turn pasta night from drab to exciting, tired to fresh, with 175 recipes for the best and yummiest pasta sauces imaginable.Everybody loves pasta—but not if it’s made the same way night after night. Families with kids, especially, eat loads of pasta, but it’s awfully easy to get stuck in a “red-sauce rut,” eating one version or another of marinara sauce over and over again. Enter author Allan Bay, an expat who lives in Rome who has written some of Italy’s best-selling cookbooks. Bay opens up in these pages
a big, bold new world of pasta sauces, some
from the classic Italian repertoire,
other brilliant new creations of his own. They have
all sorts of main ingredients, from
beef and
chicken to
shrimp and
clams to glorious
veggies from
artichokes to
zucchini. All of the sauces are
easy to prepare and every one
cooks up fast.
The Complete Book of Pasta Sauces includes:
- Asparagus and Pine Nut Sauce
- Meatball Ragout
- Cioppino
- Pesto Sauce, plus six different pesto variations
- Chicken Ragout
- Nantua Sauce with Shrimp
- Lamb Ragout with Porcinis
- Roman Cauliflower Sauce
There are bowls and bowls of
kid-friendly sauces and plenty of
grownup sauces, too. Each recipe comes with one to three
“Best On” recommendations, along with additional
“Also Good On” ideas that range from different shapes of
standard wheat pasta to egg noodles, polenta, rice, and more. There are suggestions, too, for serving the various
sauces directly on meats, poultry, or fish—something that is very common in Italy but less familiar elsewhere.
This deliciously creative book
makes pasta and pasta sauces more exciting than they’ve ever been before.