Pasta Portion in Recipes
Every milk street recipe I have seen calls for 12 oz of pasta for 4 servings. The problem is pasta is typically sold in 16 oz packages. I have asked why you don’t adjust the recipes to accommodate the whole 16 oz package, but have received no response to date (clearly you are set on 3oz servings per person instead of 4oz). So my question is can you suggest a recipe(s) that utilizes the extra 4oz of pasta, or is it that we should have enough for another recipe every four packages😀? Or maybe reconsider 12oz per recipe? Thanks
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Dean - this is a question we have heard many times, and you'll be happy to hear that we recently changed our approach to pasta so that all new pasta recipes we develop will use the full 16 ounce quantity. In the meantime, if you have 4 ounces of any long pasta - like spaghetti, angel hair or bucatini - lying around, a great use is this Parmesan, Thyme and Pasta Frittata:
Pasta, Thyme and Parmesan Frittata
https://bit.ly/2y2dW7yFor any of our old pasta recipes that call for 12 ounces, you can always increase all the ingredients by one third in order to use the full 16 ounce box. - April D.
This issue (not just across your recipes) has frustrated me for a long time, was the approach you mentioned not put in place or was it reversed? Please see this recent recipe: https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/spaghetti-clams-spaghetti-con-vongole
Hi Michael - 99% of our pasta recipes now call for 1 pound of pasta. However, for this particular recipe, since there were 3 pounds of clams also in this dish, we found using 1 pound of pasta here was just too much pasta. Best, The Milk Street Team
we are a family of five and all of my kids love pasta i also adjust in my head making a pound of pasta always