HeyJaredPasta Explorer
A weekly journey into pasta, cooking, and the joy of exploring food with curiosity.
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Slow Cooker Pasta… Clever Short Cut or Culinary Compromise? 🍽️ Explorer’s Journal from Pasta Explorer (opens the original)
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Hello Explorers!It’s officially the fall here in the northern hemisphere, and that means the weather is getting cooler, the leaves are starting to change, spooky season is just around the corner, and my mind is starting to dwell on the slow cooker in the corner of the pantry.I don’t really get enough use out of that particular piece of kitchen hardware, so I have been leafing through all my cookbooks looking for slow cooker recipes, and I have actually found several that involve pasta… which gav
When Pasta Became American🍽️ Explorer’s Journal from Pasta Explorer (opens the original)
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Hello Explorers!This week, I’m looking at something that feels completely ordinary now but really wasn’t always that way. Pasta is so woven into American eating that it’s easy to forget there was a time when it still felt closely tied to one immigrant community.So, I wanted to look at how that changed, and how pasta went from something associated with Italian neighborhoods to something that ended up on dinner tables pretty much everywhere.<p class="cta-
What Pasta Labels Actually Mean / 🍽️ Explorer’s Journal from Pasta Explorer (opens the original)
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Hello Explorers!Time was, I never noticed all the words printed all over a box of pasta. Once I started writing this Substack, I started paying attention, and once I did that, I realized those little phrases can tell you a surprising amount about what’s actually in the package and how the pasta was made. So, this week, I figured I’d start by taking a closer look at the label before getting to what’s inside.Not a subscriber? Well, what could it hurt?<
Alternative Pasta / Rice Fusilli 🍽️ Explorer’s Journal from Pasta Explorer (opens the original)
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This week, I’m taking a look at something that’s been sitting on my Pasta Explorer list for quite a while. We all know what pasta usually is, but grocery-store shelves have gotten a lot more interesting than that.So, I figured it was time to pick up one of those boxes, see what was actually in it, and find out how much changing the ingredients really changes the pasta.Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</div
Pasta Where You Don’t Expect It / Fettuccine Poblano 🍽️ Explorer’s Journal from Pasta Explorer (opens the original)
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This week started with one of those questions that sends me off exploring: what happens when pasta wanders outside the places and flavors we usually associate with it?As it turns out, quite a lot. There’s some history, some unexpected combinations, and a little experimenting in my own kitchen along the way. It seemed like a good excuse to follow pasta somewhere a little different and see what turned up.Why not give it a shot?<form class="subscription-w
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