Although
various organizations celebrate Spaghetti Days and Pasta Months of
other days, some people say that January 4 is Spaghetti Day. I
personally feel that one cannot have too many Spaghetti Days!
Spaghetti
is:
Really hard for many
little kids to pronounce. For several years, according to my
daughter, we ate “pasketti.”
- Long, skinny round rods of pasta made (usually) from semolina (durum wheat) and water. We say that spaghetti (like most pasta) is unleavened because it has no yeast or other ingredient to make it rise.
- Sometimes made from spaghetti squash, whole wheat, rice, corn, or other ingredients. Some pasta is colored and flavored with additions of spinach, tomatoes, herbs, and even cheese.
Often accompanied by a
tomato sauce. When we say “spaghetti dinner” or “spaghetti
sauce,” most of us think of spaghetti topped with tomato sauce
flavored with garlic and onion, basil and oregano, maybe mushrooms,
and maybe ground beef meatballs or sausage. BUT people eat spaghetti
pasta in lots of other ways, too: topped with just olive oil and
cheese, or butter and fried onions, or chile, chicken, colorful
peppers, snow peas and sugar snap peas, Alfredo sauce, clams, and
just about every other yummy thing!
Crafty
spaghetti...
Some
parents have been sharing pasta crafts—including some with cooked
or uncooked spaghetti—over on Pinterest.
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