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1. Most Italian pasta is made of unleavened Durum wheat with the various shapes dictating the name.
If someone offered you a dish of butterflied shrimp Alfredo with Farfalle, what shape pasta would you expect?
2. As Dean Martin can avow, pasta can also be used as an ingredient in other dishes instead of just as an entree.
Ditalani, a pasta shaped like "little thimbles," is traditionally used in what well loved Italian soup?
3. It's not a joke, joke! Tiny dumplings made of semolina dough and potato are sometimes served covered in sauce.
Though pasta purists may consider it an "impasta," what are these little dumplings called?
4. The sorta roundish "spoked" shape of this pasta has always reminded me of okra but is often a favorite amongst the younger set.
Tell me, which pasta name means "little wheels?"
5. A little bird told me that noodles and pasta aren't limited to just Italian dishes. "Spätzle" is an egg noodle style pasta dish served in Germany, Austria, and elsewhere.
"Spätzle" gets its name from the Schwaben region of Germany where it suggests what?
6. In addition to potato or wheat it's quite Kosher to make noodles of egg. Combine them in a casserole with sultanas, cinnamon, and sweet curd cheese - the result is a baked pudding that is often associated with Ashkenazi Jews who favor serving it on Shabbat and Yom Tov.
What dish still bears the name of the traditional round pots that this treat used to be made in?
7. Potatoes and eggs, and wheat, oh my! Ain't we got fun? However, further east, noodles are often as not made of rice flour.
In the Canton region of China, when stir-fried with beef and bean-sprouts, what popular dish do we get?
8. All these international noodle dishes! With new foods it's always best to keep your mind open (or so says me).
The most popular cold noodle dish in China is Sichuan style mala noodles served in a sauce that tastes strongly like peanuts.
If you wanted some of these tasty treats, what would you ask for?
9. These Chinese-style wheat noodles have been adopted by Japan where they are often served in a miso broth with scallions, nori and menma.
Of course, college students world-wide know them better in their dried form with tiny packets of goodness.
What are these ever popular noodles called?
10. Hope you're not in a hurry. One last noodle question; this time with curry.
Singapore-style noodles are stir fried rice noodles (usually of the thin vermicelli variety) in a curry flavored broth. The dish generally features mixed oriental vegetables, scrambled eggs and some type of meat. (I like mine with prawns)
Where is the LEAST LIKELY place you'd find this dish?
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