Althoughnvarious organizations celebrate Spaghetti Days and Pasta Months ofnother days, some people say that January 4 is Spaghetti Day. Inpersonally feel that one cannot have too many Spaghetti Days!
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nSpaghettinis:
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- Really hard for manyn little kids to pronounce. For several years, according to myn daughter, we ate “pasketti.”
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nn Long, skinny round rodsn of pasta made (usually) from semolina (durum wheat) and water. Wen say that spaghetti (like most pasta) is unleavened because it has non yeast or other ingredient to make it rise.
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nn Sometimes made fromn spaghetti squash, whole wheat, rice, corn, or other ingredients.n Some pasta is colored and flavored with additions of spinach,n tomatoes, herbs, and even cheese. n
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nn Often accompanied by an tomato sauce. When we say “spaghetti dinner” or “spaghettin sauce,” most of us think of spaghetti topped with tomato saucen flavored with garlic and onion, basil and oregano, maybe mushrooms,n and maybe ground beef meatballs or sausage. BUT people eat spaghettin pasta in lots of other ways, too: topped with just olive oil andn cheese, or butter and fried onions, or chile, chicken, colorfuln peppers, snow peas and sugar snap peas, Alfredo sauce, clams, andn just about every other yummy thing!
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nCraftynspaghetti…
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nSomenparents have been sharing pasta crafts—including some with cookednor uncooked spaghetti—over on Pinterest.
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nAlsonon this date:
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nWorldnBraille Day
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nFirstsnfor the fourth
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