To think pasta is rubbish?

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It's sloppy, tasteless and not particularly good for you. So what's the point in it?

Pasta and meatballs
Spag bol
Tagliatelle
Tortellini
Lasagna

They can all sod off, there are much better dinners.

I also (without any nutritional knowledge at all) think a potato must be better as it comes straight from the ground so therefore less processed = better.

Mash
Dophinouise
Chips
Clearly superior!!

I love pasta and while it's not some sort of super food, it's definitely not bad for you. I also love potatoes. A lot.

The fresh/dried pasta thing. Italians are happy to eat dried pasta, depends on what they're cooking, but they don't look down their noses at it. Old Antonio Carluccio was a fan of the dried stuff.

Yanbu, pasta and rice is just nasty.

Ah but you haven't tried my recipe involving spaghetti, cream, brandy, smoked salmon and Feta cheese

PS as other have said - if it's sloppy, it hasn't been cooked properly

Think the majority here will not agree with you op! We bloody love pasta in our house

Well apart from dp who is a fussy bugger and refuses to try it in any form.

I've tried to smuggle it into all kinds of things and it's like he just knows

The first reply to the thread has nailed it.

You're clearly doing it wrong

Pasta's pretty rubbish; I'd go for a potato any day. Pasta and tomato sauce for dinner. Really? Equivalent to a couple of slices of bread and a few tomatoes and veg. My lot are raiding the cupboards a couple of hours after pasta and sauce; it's just not nutritious enough to be satisfying.

Come off it. YABU. Pasta goes with so much goodness: peppers, tomatoes, spinach, broccoli, all kinds of cheeses. I'd go as far as saying it the base of the best and healthiest cuisine in the world. Also it makes you feel good to eat: enjoy comfort food. As good for your mood/brain as for your body.

Potatoes do hit a spot and being British of course I love a potato. I just get tired of too much spud, whereas I can eat pasta day in, day out.

If it's sloppy it's not cooked right. I love pasta but mash that is just disgusting, tasteless, sloppy mush. Give me pasta or rice over mash. However roast potatoes are the food of God's.

I agree with Ravenesque - dried pasta is very popular in Italy. Fresh everyday would be a bit much. OP - you need to come to Italy to fall in love with pasta. UK pasta is often overcooked, or served with ridiculously complicated sauces, or the wrong pasta with the wrong sauce. (Spaghetti bolognese.....grrrr......)

I love pasta, pirates, rice, bread...they don’t love my blood sugar levels 😖.

The best pasta I ever had, the pasta that made me think, bloody hell its not just a carrier for sauce, was a filled tortellini in LA of all places. OMG.

What do pirates do to your blood sugar?? Is it the rum?

Glad you like pirates, but what have they got to do with price of fish?

Pirates don’t like your blood sugar, how mean

What is that? The nose of a dolphin?

What? You've never heard of the creature called the dophinouse which is a cross between a dolphin and a mouse? It is a great delicacy in Switaziland and eaten only by the very elite.

Dobbythesockelf I forgot about roast potatoes!!

And of course jacket potatoes, with beans, or tuna, mackerel, salad, cheese, chilli etc

I don't eat pirates because splinters from their wooden legs get stuck in my teeth.

It's called "gratin dauphinois".

@CrabappleBiscuit I also had the best pasta of my life not in Italy but LA! I’ve been trying to recreate it ever since- it was this spaghetti bake where there were pan fried aubergines curled into cannelloni shapes and the spaghetti fed through. All in this gorgeous herby tomato sauce and baked with mozzarella. I have just had dinner but my mouth is watering just remembering it. Mmmmm.

Roasting Pasta

Lots of info, videos etc if you search on Google

I do prefer the tricolore ones you can get in the UK, they're a bit better. And egg pasta has more of a taste to it. I can get with it as a vehicle for a nice sauce, but I'm eating it for the sauce. The pasta is just to fill me up.

And potato wedges cooked with olive oil and salt are divine. Much nicer than spaghetti with the same - and you can even use crap oil and they will still be lovely. Spaghetti needs really nice oil IME. (Or butter.)

Oh and to answer the question upthread I think gnocchi is stodgy and weird.

I tried it in Rome, and was not keen at all. In Italy I eat pizza.

I like it well enough, ditto bread, rice and potatoes, but if they are cooked and served badly then I'd not be bothered.

Mashed potato tastes like baby food.

Pasta with butter, parmesan, salt and pepper is the food of the gods.

Case Closed.

Pasta is amazing if you cook it properly. And buy good quality pasta, not Supermarket basics shit.
I am current salivating over Spaghetti Amatricianna for tomorrow's supper.

In Italy I eat pizza

Seems a bit limited. There's a whole world of Italian food beyond pasta and pizza. Admittedly their desserts aren't up to much, panna cotta and tiramisu aside.