So just a quick tip that I learned from the good old food network when it comes to pasta dishes. I know that usually when you’re serving pasta, you like to serve it in 2 separate serving dishes: one for the pasta & one for the sauce, & then you let people dish out their own servings of both. But, what I’ve heard a lot of the food network chefs say, is that you want to mix them together first. You want to do it RIGHT when the pasta is done cooking, you add it directly to whatever the sauce is…when the pasta comes straight out of the water like this it makes it so that the pasta really soaks up the sauce, making the dish all the more flavorful!

What I’ve found in my personal experience, is that this works best with thicker pastas, like linguine or fettuccine. When I’m serving something like spaghetti, I still like to serve it separate & let each person decide how much pasta & how much sauce they want, but with the thicker pastas I almost always mix the pasta & sauce together right when the pasta is finished cooking. I really agree (cause my opinion obviously matters more than the food network’s highly trained chefs, right?) that the pasta soaks up the flavors of the sauces this way, resulting in a more flavorful dish! Try it sometime, and let me know if you agree!

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