HOW TO COOK PASTA LIKE A PRO ~With Easy Pasta Recipes Guaranteed to Impress~
What is pasta? Well, it really is the ultimate in fast food. This book covers from the basics of what pasta is to how to make pasta, how to cook pasta, tips to cook spaghetti al dente, and with easy amazing pasta recipes. Recipes include soups such a
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Not Bad,
There is a small section about the author at the end, but very little personalization throughout the book. There is a hyperlinked table of contents.
There is some good information about pasta shapes and the appropriate sauces, how to make homemade pasta, and pasta cooking tips.
The instructions about pulling a strand of pasta out to see if it’s done are a bit confusing, but I got the general idea.
I liked the idea of including soups with pasta in the book – we eat a lot of that type of soup in my family. The ingredients listed are fresh or ones I don’t mind using canned, like tomatoes. I did see one reference to “caster sugar” – this type of ingredient should be explained for an American audience.
This gets 3 stars because the measurements are not consistently handled. Some include metric and standard weight measurements, some are metric only, and some are standard only. I can deal with any method, but a cookbook should be consistent throughout. The lack of consistency does make me wonder if these are the author’s recipes or a collection, because most people pick one method and stick with it. One recipe calls for “5 spoons tomato sauce” which leaves me wondering about teaspoon, tablespoon, or table spoon.
Punctuation, spelling, and grammar are also problematic in spots – “have a go, and decide it yourselves”; tomatoes are “toughly chopped,” a recipe calls for a cup of “still, dry white or dry red wine,” a “folk” is used to smash tomatoes. Other recipes include a square character (such as one replacing a dash) which can sometimes happen when text is copied and pasted from a different format. Some attention to detail to catch these issues is important.
All in all, though, it’s not a bad collection of recipes. Some of them look tasty enough that I might deal with the conversions, but honestly, that’s because I got it as a free offering for the Kindle. If I had paid for the book, I would probably return it for a refund and look for something else.
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