Along with recipes for culinary treats from pasta puttanesca and pad thai to meat dumplings and spinach pasta with a veal ragu and wild mushroom sauce, this book provides tips and suggestions for obtaining consistent results, and all the tricks for making perfect pasta every time.
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From Library Journal
Lacalamita is the author of the very good The Ultimate Bread Machine Cookbook (LJ 11/15/93), but this book for the new automatic (extrusion) pasta machines is something of a disappointment. Once again, the recipes have been tested using all the most popular machines. However, in contrast to those in the bread machine book, most here are fairly ordinary. Furthermore, some of the pastas must be finished in a hand-crank pasta machine or by using a rolling pin, which seeems to defeat the purpose of the electric machine. The section on Asian noodles is unusual, but the dishes using the various pastas made in the machine are a grab bag of often-familiar sauces, salads, soups, casseroles, etc. Nevertheless, given the interest in the new pasta machines, expect demand. [HomeStyle Books alternate.]
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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For those cooks sufficiently enamored of kitchen high-tech (and possessing enough counter or storage space), the automatic pasta machine not only offers a timesaving convenience over its hand-cranked counterpart but also produces, according to its advocates, a better-tasting pasta and noodle. Lacalamita provides more than 85 recipes for pastas. Few surprises will greet readers accustomed to Mediterranean and Asian cuisines. Won ton skins become dim sum or additions to raspberry crisp, lasagna noodles turn into the eponymous main dish, and durum-wheat pasta is enhanced with a Sunday meat sauce. Good beginners' instructions minimize potential problems. Nutrition analyses and saucing, recipe, and pasta recommendations stamp this as a satisfactory addition to the other guides to machine cuisines. Barbara Jacobs
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This review is from: The Ultimate Pasta Machine Cookbook (Hardcover)
I got my wife an Imperia pasta maker for Christmas. It is the traditional hand crank/motor style machine. This book seemed a good suppliment since she was excited about making different pastas. After reading reviews I chose this and a couple of other pasta making books. Turns out this is a good book with info. and pictures on pastas from many cultures. The down side for us is that my wife says the focus of the book is on the type of pasta machine that is like a bread machine, where you though everything in and out comes pasta, and not the more traditional style like her's. This doesn't make it a bad or useless book, it isn't, but it helps to know what your getting. I didn't.
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