why pasta should be your favorite food, by MS

In honor of National Pasta Day, I would love to inform everyone about my favorite food of all time: pasta. I think pasta is by far the best food to exist on the planet and no one can tell me otherwise. Pasta can be in so many different noodles, sauces, and even include different protein forms.

First let’s start with pasta with protein. Everyone online recently seems to be on such a protein kick, which is great for nutrition, but is even better paired with pasta!

For example, I love a classic bolognese with Italian sausage and a nice marinara sauce. Bolognese for me personally is perfect with the mafadline noodle which is a long noodle with curvy edges. The sausage sticks into the ridges of the ends of the noodle while the sauce gets absorbed really well in the long noodles.

Another great pasta dish that is full of protein is Marry Me Chicken Pasta. You can find this recipe almost anywhere online and it is so easy to make. This dish is like home in a pan. It is full of warm spices and all the flavors pair so well together. My go to noodle for this pasta dish would have to be bow tie pasta. I don’t really know why but bow tie pasta and chicken just go together in my mind and they definitely taste amazing together.

Now onto shrimp and pasta. My favorite shrimp and pasta dishes are definitely shrimp fra diablo and my friend Kate Lewis’ moms shrimp pasta. Shrimp fra diablo is a shrimp dish with spicy marinara sauce. The best noodle for this dish has to be angel hair. Angel hair is such a soft delicious noodle that just goes so well together with shrimp. It’s such a spicy dish but so amazing. 

And lastly my friend Kate Lewis’ mom makes the BEST shrimp cajun pasta I’ve ever tasted. The linguine noodle with the cajun shrimp and sauce is the most delectable meal I have ever had. Every Fall I go to her house and eat this pasta while her mom’s fall candles fill her house. It is the best mix of everything perfect and warming. 

Now getting to the plain goodness of pasta. A simple sauce and pasta noodle is truly one of the best meals I could ever dream of. My number one, all time, I would die for this pasta, HAS to be Rigatoni with Vodka Sauce. I do not know why, I wish I knew honestly, but this dish has been my favorite food for 5 years now and I couldn’t be happier. The Vodka sauce is a red sauce with heavy cream and seasoning that blends into this perfect pink looking sauce. Then the rigatoni noodle makes for the best little tunnel to hold all the sauce possible. A bite of fresh vodka sauce rigatoni pasta would heal any and all of my problems. My recommendations of where to get a delicious vodka sauce pasta would be the Princi Italian in Preston and Royal, Dough Bird, and Carbones. 

Another different variety of pasta I love is pesto gnocchi. The warm little ball of a potato pasta noodle paired with a creamy pesto sauce is truly so delicious.

And lastly, probably my favorite pasta to get. This is always my last meal before I leave for camp for two weeks and then my first meal when I get back. After confirmation classes every Sunday I would get this meal with my mom. I crave this meal every single day and could not live without it. Spicy Gemelli from Il Bracco. The gemelli noodle is the most delicious when paired with a spicy vodka sauce. 

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