Italian

Ingredients:

• 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

• 6 Eggs

Put flour on a pastry board and make a well in the center. Break the eggs into well; beat with a fork. Draw some flour from inner rim of well over eggs, beating constantly. Keep adding flour a little at a time until you have a soft dough. Put dough aside.

With a pastry scraper, remove bits and pieces of dough attached to board. Lightly flour board and your hands. Knead dough 10 to 12 minutes, adding flour a little at a time until dough is smooth and pliable. Insert a finger into center of dough. If it comes out almost dry, dough is ready for pasta machine. If dough is sticky, knead it a little longer adding more flour. Cut an egg-size piece from dough. Wrap remaining dough in a cloth towel to prevent it from drying.

We've added links to a couple of new collections to the Italy page:

• Lasagne / Lasagna recipes (there are more than a hundred of them)
• A collection of pasta-based entrees

More Italian collections will be posted next week.

Whether you spell it "lasagna" or "lasagne", you're sure to find something here that you'll like.

---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05

Title: Extra Cheese Lasagne
Categories: Ethnic, Vegetarian
Yield: 6 Servings

2 Egg pasta recipe(above)
1 lb Ricotta cheese
2 cl Garlic, minced
10 oz Frozen chopped spinach,
Thawed and drained
1 Egg
1 ts Salt
4 c Seasoned Italian tomato
Sauce
2 c Grated provolone cheese
2 c Grated mozzarella
1 c Freshly grated Parmesan

Including Fettucine Alfredo, Tortellini with Cream, Pasta alla Puttanesca, and many more.

---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: Adriatic Spaghetti (Spaghetti Dell'adriatico)
 Categories: Italian, Seafood, Ceideburg 2
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
      1 sm Octopus (about 3 1/4 pounds)
    1/2 c  Olive oil
        pn Rosemary
      1    Bay leaf
        pn Oregano
      1 ts Cumin seeds
           Chopped parsley
      1    Green chili pepper chopped
    1/2 lb Tomatoes, peeled and cut in
           -strips
      3    Cloves garlic, (inner buds