Pasta In this issue, I'm going to talk about pasta. When I talk with people about quick meals, we always end up discussing the fact that people like pasta, but don't know what to do different with it. They simply boil up the pasta, dump a cheese or tomato sauce on it, and may even top with grated cheese, and that's it. There are loads of different pasta dishes you can make, some quick, some not so quick. You have so many varieties of pasta to choose from, different ways to sauce and dress pasta. You can have pasta in salads, as a salad, in soups, in stir fry's, with cheese or vegetables, there are so many different variations. Let's start with the pasta itself. Pasta is basically noodles, made from an unleavened dough (usually made from durum wheat flour) mixed with water or eggs and formed into sheets, strips or shapes, of which are then cooked in boiling water. You can get dried or fresh pasta, or you could even have