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Scordo Pasta Challenge #115 Ravioli with Mushroom Tomato Sauce

Scordo Pasta Challenge #115 Ravioli with Mushroom Tomato Sauce

Nothing says special occasion like ravioli!  You see, as a young lad, standard dry pasta shapes like penne, linguine, and rigatoni, made their way to my mother’s dinner table about 1x-2x per week.  However, whenever the regal ravioli made an appearance for lunch we knew it was a special day.   Ravioli were reserved for holidays or a special occasion such as a birthday […]

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Scordo Pasta Challenge: #9 Bucatini with Alio and Olio + Parsley

Scordo Pasta Challenge: #9 Bucatini with Alio and Olio + Parsley

Last Thursday I consumed Bucatini (from Colavita; decent pasta given price) with Alio and Olio.  The Scordo Pasta Challenge lives on; six shapes down and a little under 300 shapes to go!

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The Scordo Pasta Challenge: Vincenzo Eats His Way Through Every Known Pasta Shape

The Scordo Pasta Challenge: Vincenzo Eats His Way Through Every Known Pasta Shape

 I woke up this morning and had a revelation! Well, it wasn’t exactly a revelation of grand proportion like when Einstein told Newton he was all wrong about the physical world back in the early twentieth century rather my revelation was epicurean and it concerned my favorite food on the planet; namely, Pasta!Like Julie Powell’s idea of cooking through all the […]

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