Spaghetti, thick or thin noddles, meat sauce or no
 

I love angle hair pasta with cut up Italian sausage and or meat balls, not meat sauce. Now my wife likes ground meat sauce.

What do you say?

I love any pasta, any shape any size. When it comes to spaghetti, I'd prefer thin spaghetti with meatballs. My kids prefer meat sauce. It seems mashing the meatball is not the same :confused:

It's all good. A meat sauce is easier to eat, whereas discrete meat (tee hee) provides a more controllable taste experience.

What the hell am I talking about?

I like spaghetti with a marinara or other meatless sauce. If meat's to be added, I prefer either meatballs or, more often these days, sliced or diced sausage added to the spaghetti (or the sauce) at the last minute.

A meat sauce can be good, but too many are bland. I like sausage in spaghetti because it adds flavor. The one exception: I like meat sauces that are _extremely spicy/hot._ For the flavor, and to make me sweat out all pores :-). But you don't get many of those.

It's pretty hard to mess up spaghetti. Sometimes I'm in the mood for just marinara, and other times I like it with ground meat, italian sausage, or a bunch of vegetables. I prefer regular spaghetti instead of the thin stuff, although thin spaghetti does cook faster.

I say spaghetti questions are on the menu tonight!

I adore italian sausage. I like it with pretty much anything. I think that I'll have to say "with meat sauce", so long as there is italian sausage.

Gimme a Puttanesca sauce any day... garlic, olives, capers, red pepper flakes, basil, olive oil, nice crushed tomoatoes, and anchovies... on a nice penne rigate... sigh....

or a ragout type sauce with pork or beef that's been cooked for hours so that it just falls apart int he tomatoes on a nice thick tagliatelle...

oh great - now i'm hungry...

These sound great I've had the second one several times and it is fabulous!

Mal, you must be italian. I'm English but if I was on death row and was down to that last meal it would have to be italian. Chicken Vesuvio with garlic potatoes wedges, italian sasuage with onions & green peppers, Yum!

Sorry about making you hungry, I'm back at this a little after 5 am and all I can think about is Italian food.

I'm with SW! Pasta is good in just about any form. As for spaghetti, I'd prefer thicker noodles with meat sauce. Sometimes with meatballs and meat sauce. But really, any pasta, as long as I have some garlic to go with it, is alright in my book. :)

Actually pure bred Irish... land of the boring and bland food... but somewhere along the line i got the garlic gene... :D I will put garlic in corned beef and cabbage :D

Puttanesca sauce is my favorite thing in the world...

I prefer cream sauces over tomato sauces, but generally I love my mom's spaghetti sauce. She just dresses up some canned Hunt's with some other spices and sweet Italian sausage. My mom is the queen of making people think her cooking is homemade from scratch--people ask for her recipes and she just laughs.

I make my marinara from scratch but I don't like spaghetti sauce without meat, so I don't eat it often (boyfriend's vegetarian, so it's for him, not me). I usually just eat the noodles with some butter and cheese.

And I prefer shaped pasta, not noodles, though nothing beats a seafood alfredo on fettucine in my book.

Word up on the sausage.

We've converted over to whole grain pasta.....anyone else like it? The brand we prefer by far (for whole grain) is sold as Ronzoni in the states. We had it first in Canada and I think it was Prince brand there. Barilla is our usual pasta but their whole grain is so-so. Hodgson Mill is terrible.

I would have to say "yes please". :)

i like almost any type of pasta but would overall prefer angle hair or linguini. sometimes certain shapes do better. and i like alsmost any sauce that isn't white (i just don't like all the fats). if it has tomatoes, garlic , basil, rosemary, oregano, carrots or any combination thereof... oh, mama!!!!

I start with meat sauce and then put 2 pounds of meat in on top. Add cracked red pepper, and it'll fill you up.

Skinny pasta (angle hair, capellini) for me, don't know why. But I like the shapes too. And for me, as long as sauce is spiced well, I lika-da-meat, in nealy any format. Italian sausage (turkey!) for extra round bonus points though.