Lidia's Five Essential Simple Pasta Recipes

I love your videos

Love your recipes. My husband was Italian and I tried to get recipes from his grandma, she didn't budge.

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You are the master!

I'm a 60 year old man in America. I've been retired for four years and I do almost all the cooking in our home. During the week, I cook for three. But for Sunday dinner, our three adult children and our grandchildren usually come for the day to visit. I strive to prepare the dishes that they like most, paying attention to everyone's favorites with special attention to our grandkids. I want to foster their interest in and enjoyment of family gatherings. And they seem to take to it naturally and cherish our Sundays together.
I enjoy learning not only the recipes of different countries and cultures, but the cooking and prep techniques that play a big part in how food is enjoyed around the world.
I especially love Italian recipes and dishes from the many regions of far East Asia, which used to be called Oriental Cuisine.
But there is something I find to be true in many of the best online video resources taught by classically trained chefs and restaurateurs. It's the fact that, although the teaching is aimed at working people seeking to feed their families good meals at home, most if not all of their dishes are presented as though they are intended to be served in a restaurant setting. And for couples or families of three, this approach likely works well. But for larger families where time to cook every meal individually simply doesn't exist, a restaurant approach becomes problematic.
For example, in the simple task of cooking spaghetti noodles, most every trained chef will insist on teaching never to rinse the pasta or add oil. Also, it is taught to add the cooked pasta straight from the pot into the sauce because the starchy exterior more readily soaks up some of the sauce. And, yes, for only one meal, this is the most flavorful method.
But if you cook at home as I do, you cook for more than one meal at a time. Sometimes you cook so that family members can take food home from Sunday dinner to be enjoyed for lunch at work on Monday. And the restaurant approach does not work well at all for my needs.
In fact, pasta prepared that way and reheated as leftovers results in a dry glob with the noodles overcooked and unappetizing.
As families, not restaurateurs, we develop our own ways of preparing meal components so that the second meal is also enjoyable.
Back to the spaghetti. I achieve the best success preparing it the way chefs teach us never to do it. I rinse the cooked pasta twice in hot tap water, drain it well, then stir in olive oil or butter.
This method removes the sticky starch and keeps the pasta from sticking together when stored in it's own container in the fridge.
And when served again, the texture of the pasta is much more palatable than before. The whole meal experience is very similar to the first.
I greatly respect your skill, ability, and experience. I've cooked many of your dishes and I enjoy your channel immensely. You are very professional in every aspect of your teaching. And I thank you for sharing your expertise.
Please don't think my comment is criticism. I don't intend it to be. But I do hope that working parents who read this comment will understand that chef inspired meals can be adapted to fit how they approach meal planning with limited time for cooking.

Cracked peppercorn pasta with pecorino, would be awesome for a frittata😊

Made the last dish, I added fresh mushrooms to the garlic, try it great touch

Yummy

Love you pasta you tell how to do it so welli love pasta im quit skinney people say pasta puts wate on not trou .look at you your just right don't you think keep up the great work pleas .im susan from palma de Mallorca spain

Yes we do the same here in Mallorca well some do I do makes the onions so tender

Good dich i loved but what is a capar

Hi Lydia, you made a Lemon Pasta Shrimp dish that I made from your recipe. Is this recipe in one of your cookbooks? We loved this pasta.

So many people are afraid to add anchovies to their dishes but they shouldnt be! I was never a fan of them but love their salty flavor in many pasta dishes and my favorite homemade salad dressings. Thank you for sharing your tips! I enjoy basic pasta meals-- they are always yummy!

Master Class,Thank You!

I’ve never had the last one with the roasted tomatoes. It sounds amazing!

Delicioso umm yumyyumy 😋👍

I do miss your mama

Lidia you are my hero. Such simple wonderful flavourful food. Thank you ❤️

Fantastic. The first recipe you put together seems like a Quickie Puttanesca. Am I right?

Not crazy about the second last dish. Just boiled in water basically with some thyme and butter. No thank you.

What. NO CHEESE. OMG NOOOOOOO

I'd LOVE to stand side by side with her and cook.

I like your cook

I've always wanted to... Your..... ✅
You are sweet and Hot And I love the accent ♥️😇

Molta buorno, delicioso,.

My toddler was siting on my lap watching this with me and when Lidia lifted up the fork to take a bite, she put her mouth up to the screen like she was going to take a bite too 😂

Please young man, roll those spaguetti nicely, on the fork, second and most important, it's " aglio e olio ' , not aglio y(i) olio". I listened to your video carefully as you stated incorrectly twice. Thank you mate.. Buy the way, I've never had this creamy version of this pasta preparation. I will try is cause it looks delicious, specially the browned version where u blender the garlic after it has fried. I will boil my pasta al dente and then mix it in with the sauce and some of that starchy boiling water. One of the risks of cooking pasta like you did at the beggining of your video is that if one is not careful, the final product tastes like a lump of starch...Thank u for your creamy blended and fried garlic sauce. It really made my day!!!!

All these cooking shows Re BS. Everything is top. No wonder it comes out right

I hate twirling and trying to eat long noodles-- it flips everywhere on my face ,on my clothes-- so I always cut mine up on my plate-- it is still delicious!

Every time I watch you I get hungry. You make me want to go to the kitchen and try your dishes. Great cook

wow this pasta is just incredible

I love pasta and other Italian dishes they are soft

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I stopped watching her when she chopped up a live lobster and it was squirming on the board. Disgusting

Sorry Lidia but you don't know how to use a knife.

THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING YOUR MOM THRU THE YEARS!! I COULDN'T WAIT FOR HER TO SING AND SHE WAS A BEAUTIFUL LADY♡♡♡♡♡♡♡ ♡♡♡

100$ pan anything cooks up good

How can all celebrity great chefs also be great health role models?

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So glad I met her at a PBS benefit dinner in Phoenix. Just how she presents on t.v.: decent, creative, unpretentious and loving.Peace to Lidia! Thanks for delicious food!

What brand of pasta?

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Millions of blessings,

Esther St Juste

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Very,very nice. Absolutely amazing for ever. 🛸🌎🤩💫💫💫💫💫💫💫🤩🤩🤩🤩💯👏

Italian food is poor people's food. Lydia makes it special.

Love watching each recipe you make. Delicious ❤

Don't use ur pasta water and rinse your pasta.