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IMPORTANT AGAIN:

1. before using any ingredient make sure you are not allergic to the ingredient itself.
2. Before inviting friends to dinner to show how good you are at cooking, try making this dish yourself at least 2 times.
3. Especially when you use garlic, make sure that your partner or all your friends you did invite will eat pasta too. Don't kiss anyone who hasn't eaten it with you.
4. Here the given doses are for 2 people. Increase everything in direct proportion if there are more guests.

Pasta with shelled frozen mussels (for 2 persons)

• Calories approximately 500 to 600 Kcal per person
• Total preparation time approximately 45'

• Procedure STEP BY STEP(click)

Ingredients : here is an example of how to prepare a good dish of tasty pasta for 2 which requires little more than cooking time to prepare it:

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The total calories of this preparation are approximately 1000 - 1200

Procedure:

• POTS:you need
  • a round pot for pasta about 8-9" in diameter and the same height
  • A large saucepot as shown hereunder
    

Large and profound pot to cook mussels with olive oil and garlic

1. Fill the smaller pot a little more than half with water, add the salt and put it on the heat. ADD THE COARSE SALT AND PASTA - carefully - WHEN THE WATER BEGINS TO BOIL.
2. In the meantime, prepare the sauce as follow:
3. clean the garlic cloves and chop finely
4. Put oil and chopped garlic into the bigger pan and put it on heat (medium). Stir with a wooden spoon.
5. when the garlic begins to take light colour or better when you smell stronger scent (do not burn!) bring the heat to medium and add the frozen mussels. Mix with a wooden spoon
6. hold mixing the frying mussels until you smell a cooked scent. End of the sauce preparation.

Garlic is frying	Mussels cooking
FINAL STEPs Drain the spaghetti and pour them in pour a half ladle of cooking water Stir over medium heat until the water evaporates Serve
Here we are (from ab 100 grams of dry spaghetti)

R2

Pasta and broccoli (or cauliflowers)(FOR 2 PERSONS)

• Calories approximately 500 to 600 Kcal per person
• Total preparation time approximately 45'

• Procedure STEP BY STEP(click)

Ingredients : here is an example of how to prepare a good dish of tasty pasta for 2 which requires little more than cooking time to prepare it:

These are a kind of broccoli named 'Broccoli baresani'

. . The total calories of this preparation are approximately 1400 - 1500 (700-800 each person)

Procedure:

POTS:you need

• a pot for pasta about 8-9" in diameter and the same height or enough to contain 3 lt of water
• A large saucepot as shown hereunder

Large and profound pot

Fill the FIRST pot more than half with water, and put it on the heat. ADD THE COARSE SALT AND ADD BROCCOLI - carefully - WHEN THE WATER BEGINS TO BOIL. In the meantime, prepare the base of the sauce as follow:

• clean the garlic cloves and chop finely
• Put oil and chopped garlic into the bigger pan and put it on heat (medium). Stir with a wooden spoon.
• when the garlic begins to take light colour or better when you smell stronger scent (do not burn!)
  STOP AND WAIT FOR YOUR BROCCOLI END THEIR BOILING TIME - let' say about 15-20, minutes.

Preparation of your sauce

• when cooked, remove the broccoli from the BOILING pan with a slotted ladle and place them in the pan together with the oil and garlic and light the fire.
• hold mixing broccoli with a wooden spoon until every part has been ointed and hot..
  End of sauce preparation.
  

Broccoli frying

FINAL STEPs

• Drain pasta and pour them into this pot
• pour a half ladle of cooking water
  
• Stir over medium heat until the water evaporates

You can serve

Here we are (from ab 100 grams of dry maccheroni

NOTEs :

In Italy there are countless types and shapes of pasta. Among the macaroni for this preparation I chose the longer, thinner, smooth ones.
FOR GREATER ADHERENCE OF THE SAUCE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD TO USE NORMAL ROUGH RIGATONI WHICH HOLDS THE SAUCE BETTER
Here I did cooke pasta more than 20 min. The volume has increased about 2-3 times

IF YOU HAVE COOKED TOO MUCH BROCCOLI YOU CAN EAT THE OTHERS PANED WITH OIL AND GARLIC, WITHOUT PASTA.

MY own rough "carbonara"(A CALORIC BOMB FOR 2 PERSONS)
Historical note: This preparation is called 'carbonara' because it was used by certain conspirators of the early 19th century called the 'carbonari' (charcoal burners) who operated in the State of the Church in Italy. The conspirators, generally liberal nobles, met to plot their acrtions in the farmhouses in the woods where charcoal was produced (Carbonaie). Is said that they used to have lunch by preparing this pasta with what they found locally.

• Calories 1740 approximately 800 to 900 Kcal per person
• Total preparation time approximately 45'

• Procedure STEP BY STEP(click)

Ingredients : here is an example of how to prepare a good dish of tasty pasta for 2 which requires little more than cooking time to prepare it:

. . The total calories of this preparation are approximately 800 to 900 Kcal per person (FOR 100 grams of dry pasta each)

Procedure:

POTS:you need

• a pot to cook pasta about 8-9" in diameter and the same height or enough to contain 3 lt of water
• A large saucepot as shown hereunder

Large pot

Fill the FIRST pot more than half with water, and put it on the heat. ADD THE COARSE SALT AND ADD SPAGHETTI - carefully - WHEN THE WATER BEGINS TO BOIL. In the meantime, waitng pasta beeing done prepare the base sauce as follow:

• clean the onion and chop finely
• Put oil and chopped onion into the large pan and put it on heat (medium). Stir with a wooden spoon .
• when the onion begins to take light colour or better when you smell stronger scent (do not burn!) add bacon
• fry until your bacon is well done
• prepare 2 eggs into a bowl and beat them with a fork. Add half a cup of water and whisk again

                 Whisk two eggs and a half cup of water

FINAL STEPS

• when cooked, drain your spaghetti, and place them in the sauce pan. Light again the fire and mix until every part.
• Join your eggs into the sauce pan and hold mixing until every part has been covered by egg and the water evaporated..
  End of preparation.
  

Pasta is frying (please fry until water evaporated)
Stir with care over medium heat until the water evaporates

You can prepare dishes and serve

Here we are (from ab 100 grams of dry spaghetti