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 Posted By: ainjel 
Jul 13  # 6 of 18
Quote aeiou wrote:
I too love angel hair pasta but find that it is too thin for traditional spaghetti sauce. I find that it is better suited for an Alfredo sauce dish. I prefer to use thin spaghetti noodles but my husband prefers a thicker spaghetti noodle. I did however find an excellent (taste & texture) organic spaghetti noodle made in Italy by a company called Bionaturae. Perhaps this pasta tastes so good because it is made in Italy - they know pasta better than anyone else.


I'm used to using Barilla for all my pasta. It's Italian also but there happens to be a plant about an hour north of me so it's always available in all of the grocery stores here.
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 Posted By: ainjel 
Jul 13  # 7 of 18
Quote khartman wrote:
I couldn't get my husband to even look at a spinach spaghetti, although personally I like it.

Ainjel, do you often cook to meet each others tastes? When cooking, I try to meet in the middle and make foods everyone will eat. I'm pretty open to eating most foods except anchovies and brussel sprouts :p

Tonight it wasn't too much of a big deal to make two different types of pasta, especially since we all used the same sauce to top it. I just needed an extra pot and some water. Normally though I would have just made him cook his own stuff. : )
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 Posted By: alice.b.toklas 
Jul 15  # 8 of 18
Quote ainjel wrote:
I'm used to using Barilla for all my pasta. It's Italian also but there happens to be a plant about an hour north of me so it's always available in all of the grocery stores here.


And I thought Barilla was an imported pasta. Several years ago, I think, Mueller or San Georgia went after them for dumping their pasta on the US market. I didn't follow this story so maybe the solution was to build a plant in the US and just compete fairly.

Suppose if they import the semolina flour, they can make good authentic Italian pasta in the US.
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 Posted By: Mama Mangia 
Jul 15  # 9 of 18
Semolina can be found in most stores now - it used to be hard to find - only the Italian markets had it - now it is in supermarkets.
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 Posted By: Upennmama 
Jul 24  # 10 of 18
I think that cooks illustrated rated pastas and Mueller and Barilla both did pretty well.