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Giuliano Hazan's Thirty Minute Pasta: 100 Quick and Easy Recipes

Giuliano Hazan's Thirty Minute Pasta: 100 Quick and Easy Recipes
By Giuliano Hazan

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Now that America’s low-carb obsession is over, home cooks are once again looking to prepare well-balanced meals that include everyone’s favorite food—pasta. Few of us, though, have the leisure to create a classic Bolognese meat sauce from scratch. For those who are as pressed for time as they are starved for a toothsome bowl of beautifully sauced pasta, Giuliano Hazan has created 100 scrumptious pasta dishes that can be put together in half an hour or less. 
 
Hazan’s repertoire—hearty pasta soups, fresh-from-the-greenmarket vegetarian dishes, and meat and seafood sauces that take their cue from the classics of Italian cuisine—will let you bring healthful, hunger-satisfying pasta back to your family’s weeknight-supper table. Included are recipes for last-minute dishes, as well as useful advice on stocking your pasta pantry, choosing cooking equipment, and figuring out which pasta shape goes with which kind of sauce.
 
PRAISE FOR GIULIANO HAZAN’S THIRTY MINUTE PASTA
 
“Grazie, Giuliano, you’ve made busy weeknight dinners pasta perfect.” —Book Page
 
“Highly recommended for time-pressed home cooks.” —Library Journal
 
“The Italian food expert has created a cookbook combining various types of pasta in ways that even people with little free time can enjoy.”  —San Francisco Chronicle
 
“Hazan’s latest title just keeps on satisfying, with so little effort on my part.” —Austin Chronicle
 
“ Using few ingredients, simple directions, quick results and wonderful Italian taste. —Daily News of Los Angeles

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #6704 in Books
  • Published on: 2009-09-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 176 pages

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About the Author

Giuliano Hazan is the son of famed Italian cookbook writer Marcella Hazan. He runs a cooking school in Verona with his wife and won the IACP award for Cooking Teacher of the Year in 2007. He is a contributor to Cooking Light magazine and author of The Classic Pasta Cookbook, Every Night Italian, and How to Cook Italian.

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Simple, tasty recipes5
This is an excellent cookbook for creating simple pasta meals that are a little adventurous and very tasty. The author has several sections - vegetarian dishes, seafood dishes, and meat dishes - with enough recipes in each section to make this a very usable book no matter what your eating habits. That is, unless you've gone gluten free. Even then, I suppose you could use this book with non-gluten pastas.

Another thing I like about this book is that the recipe requirements are not out of the ordinary. I tried the pasta alia puttanesca bianca and I had all the ingredients. I also had all the ingredients on hand for several other meals. I think this is a great book for a quick, delicious meal on a busy night or even if you're having company over.

Perfect for a Quick Pasta Fix5
Thirty Minute Pasta is the perfect "quick fix" addition to Giuliano Hazan's excellent Italian cookbook collection. A beautiful book that is easy to use. I liked the layout and the pictures. It is good as a primer as well as for the seasoned cook. I used the the helpful Pasta Pantry section to update my own inventory. The three-page primer on pasta covers which pasta shapes work with which sauces, and why. I used the Ideal Pairings info to find recipes for whatever pasta I had on hand. There are some quick versions of classics, like Spaghetti Carbonara and Tagliatelle with a Quick and Simple Meat Sauce, as well as new combos like Penne with Fresh Tuna and a Saffon Cream Sauce, and Farfalle with Fresh Salmon. My favorite recipe in the book is Linquine with a Pink Shrimp Sauce. The mixture of chopped as well as whole shrimp gives the sauce a wonderful consistency and helps make the intensify the flavor.

Forget takeout - open this cookbook instead5
Giuliano Hazan's newest cookbook delivers what it promises - and more. With just a few ingredients and these simple preparations, you truly can make trattoria-quality pasta in only half an hour. The bonus: these dishes will have everyone at your table ooo-ing, aah-ing, and thinking you've spent hours cooking for them.

Hazan's teaching skills are evident in his clear, concise recipes, making this a perfect book for cooks just learning the beauty of genuine Italian cooking. But, it's even better for old cooks (like me) who want to stir up a delicious Italian dinner in the time it takes to boil the water and cook the pasta.

The photos are simply beautiful, the pasta and pantry info is concise and thorough, and each recipe includes interesting notes on the dish's history and ingredients. My favorites so far: Fettucine with a Savory Veal Sauce, Linguine with a Pink Shrimp Sauce, and Fettucine with Spring Vegetables (good in any season). I use this book several times a week, and can't wait to try all 100 recipes - a real challenge, since I can't stop repeating my favorites!