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LafayetteLady -> RE: What s the differance between noodles and pasta? (1/7/2010 12:09:53 AM)
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ORIGINAL: nephandi
Greetings
I had noodles for lunch yesterday. Therese really thick flavor full egg noodles my mother buy in Sweden. However that got me thinking. What is really the difference between noodles and pasta? Is it not made of the same stuff? What is the difference do anyone here know?
I wonder if noodles and meat sauce would be a good dish. Exchanging spaghetti for noodles.
I wish you well
Depends on the kind of noodles. In many beef dishes, egg noodles are used and they taste yummy. By "meat sauce" am I right in assuming you mean a tomato based sauce with ground beef? That is what meat sauce is here in the states.
Different pastas work for different types of sauces. When I was waiting tables, I always laughed at the kitchen staff who would say "pasta is pasta, it's all the same." It really isn't.
Angel hair pasta (like spagetti, but very thin) is NOT good with meat sauce. The sauce will overwhelm the pasta. For meat sauce, thicker more robust pasta is better. Shells, ziti or rigatoni are all really good with meat sauce. Angel hair is good with lighter sauces like pesto or garlic and oil.
You don't want to use the robust pasta so much with cream sauces, but neither do you want to use the really delicate ones either. Something in between. Fetticinni (flat, long like spagetti, about 1/4 inch wide) is good with cream sauce as is bow ties, fusilli and tiny shells.
There is NO pasta that will be good on a diet in abundance. The carb count of whole wheat pasta is not significant at all. It is only a couple grams less. I think whole wheat pasta tastes like crap, so I would rather have the couple of extra grams of carbs.
pahunkboy,
I know that you, like many nowadays, are working under a tight budget and pasta is cheap. After years of eating it a lot because of the affordability, I will hardly touch it now. There is a nationwide organization called Angel Food Ministries that can really help you get affordable food at really reasonable prices. It includes real meat, steaks, chicken, pork chops and even fish as well as fresh fruits and vegetables. I know that you live alone and can honestly tell you that if you purchased your food from them (they are a non profit run by a church in Georgia), you can have good, healthy food and you will be able to have enough food to last you for a month for less than $150.00. That will include as I said, real meat, real vegetables and fresh fruit. I don't know if you are on food stamps, but they do accept them. I have been purchasing food through them for about a year, and now all I get at the grocery store are beverages, bread and snacks.
I don't work or volunteer for the organization and I get nothing from telling people about it. But honestly, knowing that you have decent healthy food to eat can greatly improve your quality of life.
Anyone who would like more information, please feel free to cmail me. They aren't everywhere, but you can search on their website for a location nearby, and possibly even get your local church to become a host site.
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