Hi, this is the twenty eighth entry about the art of  cooking Italian pasta.
In the last entry we told you about the Bolognese sauce or ragout (meat-and tomato-based pasta sauce).

Have you made it? Are you going to make it in the next days? Well, we want to tell you today about the most common mistakes people  do with this traditional Italian sauce.

For example. Most people use to toss spaghetti with Bolognese sauce. It’s wrong! Look at the photo below.

It isn't an Italian recipe!

We found this photo easily in Internet but it isn’t a typical dish from Italy. Don’t toss spaghetti with Bolognese sauce! The right pasta is tagliatelle. Tossing spaghetti is an habit in the North of Europe.You can also use Bolognese sauce to make Bolognese lasagna or cannelloni.

In this photo there is another mistake. Don’t serve pasta with some tablespoons of sauce on the top! It can be a nice photo but we repeat: it’s a mistake. Follow our instructions. Cook pasta and when al dente stage drain it. Pour the pasta into the bowl or the pan, add the sauce and stir very well. So you’re sure the pasta doesn’t get  sticky! Besides good manners tell us your guests must be at their ease. If they want  to eat a tasty pasta they have to stir it in the dish and in this way they could get a sauce stain.!

Tomorrow we’ll tell you about the fantastic lasagna, Bologna -style.

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Carlo & Loretta

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