everything is delicious!
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I greatly enjoy Rose Elliot's recipes and have 6 other books written by her, but, seeing pasta is my absolutely favourite food ever, this recipe book is the one I use most frequently.
Rose Elliot includes plenty of recipes for pasta salads, pasta main courses, lasagne and pasta bakes, and uses a wide variety of ingredients: a whole host of wonderful things like asparagus, goat's cheese, rocket, porcini mushrooms, tomoatos, leeks, avocado and plenty more. There are recipes for classic sauces such as tomato sauce, mushroom sauce and bechamel sauce which are wonderful for lasagne as well as a slimmer's bechamel with fewer calories. Despite having other Rose Elliot books, I find that the recipes in here are not repetitive at all, in fact, its wonderful to have a whole book dedicated to pasta with all the delicious recipes in just one book.
Another aspect of this book that I like is that some of the pasta dishes are very simple using just one or two ingredients in addition to olive oil (such as parsley, parmesan or walnuts), while others are quite unusual, such as the pasta with carrot, goats cheese, sun-dried tomato and thyme. It is also a very comforting book in that very little can go wrong if you're making pasta - just yesterday I made the roast asparagus lasagne from the book and was prepared for doom when the lasagne sheets all stuck together and I did not have any spares in the house...so I made a very patchwork lasagne, and despite the bits of torn lasagne sheets having to be put together like a mosaic, the outcome was still delicious.
The only fault that I can find with the book is that a number of recipes contain the same ingredients which classically go together, but only the pasta type and the herb used is changed, so you really do not need 2 or sometimes even 3 recipes for exactly the same thing in one book. However, because there are so many different ingredients and plenty of ideas for putting ingredients together, and everything is so tasty, I still would give this book 5 stars as everything in there seems destined to be delicious.
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`150 mouth-watering dishes from the expert'
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`Pasta - versatile, economic, filling and delicious.
And in this, her new collection of imaginative recipes, Rose shows you how pasta can be prepared in many different ways to produce delicious and creative dishes.
Hot or cold, in soups or salads, with luscious sauces, or stuffed and baked in the oven - pasta is tasty however you cook it.
This book is designed to guide you through some of your favourite vegetarian pasta recipes and to introduce you to some fresh ideas that will inspire you to cook fabulous food.
150 delicious recipes show pasta in all its glory. Nothing complicated - they are all clear and straightforward to follow, with no long or time-consuming instructions, making them ideal for quick meals and family gatherings.
And .... for those who don't know their spaghetti from their vermicelli, there is a 3-page photographic guide to all the pasta shapes used in this book, as well as notes from Rose on choosing and using pasta.
Full of inspired recipes and beautifully illustrated throughout - guaranteed to get you cooking!'
144 shiny high quality pages, split over main chapters:-
Pasta Basics
Pasta Soups
Pasta Salads
5-minute Sauces
Simple Pasta Dishes
The Classic Sauces:-
Pesto
Cream
Béchamel
Lentil Bolognese
Tomato
Lasagne and other Baked Pasta Dishes
with an introduction and an index.
Each recipe is well laid out with an opening note, list of ingredients, number of servings and a clearly numbered method.
A little sparse on finished dish photography, perhaps, but the ones that are pictured are indeed mouth-watering!
A taste of the recipes within:-
Harvest Vegetable and Pasta Soup
Thai Coconut Soup with Noodles
Woodland Mushroom and Pasta Soup
Salade Niçoise with Conchiglie
Caesar Salad with Farfalle
Spaghetti with Garlic and Olive Oil
Macaroni, Cheddar Cheese and Cherry Tomatoes
Fettucine with Lemon
Pipe Rigate with Aubergine, Ricotta and Basil
Vegetable Chow Mein
Spinach Tagliatelle with Béchamel Sauce and 3 Cheeses
Rigatoni with Tomato Sauce, Grilled Fennel and Olives
Penne Arrabbiata
Vegetarian Lasagne Al Forno
Mushroom and Garlic Cream Cheese Lasagne
Pasta Terrine
and a nice change of use for pumpkin with Hallowe'en, so close, at the time of writing:-
Pumpkin and Goat's Cheese Lasagne
Simply super!
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