Microwave Cooking for One by Marie T Smith
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Pasta! Pasta! Pasta!
This recipe was posted on November 6, 2002
Pasta was invented by the Chinese as early as 5000 B.C.
There are more than 600 pasta
shapes produced worldwide, with the most popular being spaghetti.
Did You Know?
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In 18th century
England, macaroni was a synonym for perfection and excellence.
That's why, for example, the feather in Yankee Doodle's cap was
called "macaroni." In fact, the word
"macaroni" means "dearest darlings" in
Italian.
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One cup cooked
spaghetti provides about 200 calories, 40 grams of carbohydrates,
less than one gram of total fat, no cholesterol and only one gram
of sodium when cooked without salt.
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According to Miss
Manners (a.k.a. Judith Martin), a fork is the only utensil that
may be used to eat spaghetti while anyone is looking.
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Egg noodles contain
egg; almost all other dry pasta shapes do not. By federal law, a
noodle must contain 5.5 percent egg solids to be called a noodle.
So without egg, a noodle really isn't a noodle.
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Thomas Jefferson is credited with introducing
macaroni to the United States. It seems that he fell in love with
a certain dish he sampled in Naples while serving as the U.S.
Ambassador to France. In fact, he promptly ordered crates of
"macaroni," along with a pasta-making machine, sent back
to the States.
Can't get your fill of Pasta Trivia? Visit the
National Pasta Association's website, Fun
Facts About Pasta!

Pasta in the Microwave
Since Mom was of Italian heritage, pasta was a
regular weekly meal in our home when I was growing up. It seems to be
a popular meal in many American homes, based upon the numerous emails
I've received asking how to cook it in the microwave. It has reached the point where it is much simpler
for me to provide this information for everybody, instead of answering
requests individually, so here are the
instructions for cooking pasta in the microwave from Microwave
Cooking for One by Marie T Smith.
Method 1: Small Macaroni
To cook small macaroni (elbow, rotelle, ziti, etc.):
| 1 cup water
¼ tsp. salt
¼. vegetable oil |
Pour water into 1½-quart Corning Ware pot.
Cook 2:30 minutes (_____) at 100% power until water
boils. Add salt and oil to water and stir.
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| 2 oz. macaroni
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Spread out macaroni in pot. Cook 12
minutes (_____) at 50% power until water is absorbed. Place
on plate, top with your favorite sauce, and serve. (See
recipes for Pasta Sauce and Vegetarian Pasta Sauce in Microwave
Cooking for One by Marie T Smith, or make a big batch and
freeze it using Momma's Microwave
Italian Spaghetti Sauce Recipe.)
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Method 2: Long Macaroni
To cook long macaroni (linguine, spaghetti, vermicelli, etc.):
| 2 cups water
¼ tsp. salt
¼. vegetable oil |
Pour water into 1½-quart Corning Ware pot.
Cook 5:00 minutes (_____) at 100% power until water
boils. Add salt and oil to water and stir.
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| 2 oz. macaroni
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Place macaroni in pot. Ends will stick out of
pot. Cook 1 minute (_____) at 100% power. The macaroni in
the water will have softened. Push exposed ends down into pot.
Cook 1 minute (_____) at 100% power. Stir macaroni with
fork, making sure all of it is covered by water. Cook 6
minutes (_____) [8 minutes (_____)] for spaghetti) at 50% power
until macaroni is done. Drain macaroni in strainer. Place on
plate, top with your favorite sauce, and serve. (See
recipes for Pasta Sauce and Vegetarian Pasta Sauce in Microwave
Cooking for One by Marie T Smith, or make a big batch and
freeze it using Momma's Microwave
Italian Spaghetti Sauce Recipe.)
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NOTE:
To increase this recipe, add 1 cup of water for each additional 2
oz. of macaroni. Cook water until it boils, then follow recipe as
given. Cooking time remains the same.
Cooking times are for a
700-watt oven. For best results with this and any other microwave recipe, please be sure to go to
Timing
of the Microwaving Tips section for a complete explanation of
timing in the microwave.
(We provide conversion charts to help you find the correct times for
your oven!)
For a listing of all the pasta
recipes in Microwave Cooking for One, CLICK
HERE.
If pasta has become a popular mainstay at your
dinner table, why not serve it in style with one of these beautiful
pasta
bowl sets? They're also great for serving soups or salads! And of
course, they're safe for the microwave!
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