Pasta is an Italian food made from a dough using flour, water and/or eggs. The dough is shaped and can be stored. Pasta is boiled prior to consumption. There are many variations of shapes and ingredients that are all called pasta. A few examples include spaghetti (solid cylinders), macaroni (tubes or hollow cylinders), fusilli (swirls), and lasagna (sheets). Pasta can also denote dishes in which pasta products are the primary ingredient, served with sauce or seasonings. The word comes from Italian pasta which shares its origins with "paste", meaning "dough", "pasta", or "pastry" as in "small cake".

This is a great recipe for pasta lovers. Keeping the base recipe the same, several of the ingredients can be substituted for other meats, veggies or noodles.

As an American in Paris, walking down the Champs-Elysee near the Arc de Triomphe one afternoon, I had a yen for pasta primavera. Unfortunately I don’t speak the native language and, as Americans know, the French want everyone, whether they speak the language or not, to articulate flawless Parisian French. Absoluement!

Pasta Shells Florentine is pasta made with jumbo pasta shells, spinach, low fat mozzarella cheese, low-fat cottage cheese, egg, grated parmesan cheese, ground nutmeg, italian seasoning, and a jar of spaghetti sauce.

If you love your partner but you don’t know how to surprise him, here’s a tip for a delicious meal. It’s my own spaghetti pasta with mushroom sauce

Saturday's killing of five women at a Tinley Park clothing store evoked memories of one of the Chicago area's worst mass killings and perhaps its most notorious workplace shooting, the massacre of seven people at a Brown's Chicken and Pasta in Palatine 15 years ago.