Why You Should Buy Italian-Made Pasta

Do you cook lots of pasta? If you have kids, you do. But here's a tip: only buy Italian-made pasta. Why? Because it's just better. They've been making pasta for hundreds of years, they know how to do it. So check the label and make sure somewhere on the package it says it's made in Italy. Usually there's lots of Italian on the package, a dead giveaway. This brand Fratelli Gallo is my favorite. 

What you see is called Pasta Della California from the amazing Veganomicon, perhaps the mother of all vegan cookbooks. It has an important-sounding name, anyway.

This pasta dish is one of the best we've ever had, I think. It's loaded with garlic and lime zest sauteed in white wine with peppery arugula and--get this--avocado! You wouldn't be alone if you thought avocado wouldn't go well with pasta, but in this dish it works amazingly. We got baby arugula from our CSA share at Seed to Spoon. This dish was just incredible, but what made it even better was using the Fratelli Gallo fettuccine.

Dessert. We still have those strawberries from Lester's Farm Market, so what other dish can we make? Ah yes, strawberry shortcake with macadamia nut cream. 

All vegan. The cream, which was uber delish, is from Vegan with a Vengeance, written by one of the authors of Veganomicon, Isa Chandra Moskowitz:

As you can see, our little "Mikey" liked it.

Eat B(right),

Veggie Daddy