While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday.
Today's food holiday is carbo-loads of fun - October 17 is National Pasta Day!
Invite your friends and family over for a bowl of spaghetti, linguine, farfalle, gnocchi or whatever variety that strikes your noodle fancy.
According to the National Pasta Association, the average American consumes 20 pounds of pasta every year. In fact, the United States produces 4.4 billion pounds of pasta annually, making it the second largest pasta-producing nation behind - you guessed it - Italy.
Buon appetito!
The only question remains for tonight:
Red sauce, or white sauce?
For me it was red sauce with stewed tomatoes and green chilis. Dayum good.
A big ol' plate of spaghetti topped with a can of Wolf Brand chili has to be about as good as it gets.
I like making pasta with SPAGHETTI SQUASH! :)
Yeah, I'm having pasta for lunch. Party on!
One that almost everyone can celebrate. They even have rice noodles for those who cannot have wheat products.
Mmmm, pasta. My fave side dish is still buttered egg noodles with garlic & parm. So simple, yet, so good!