Healthy pasta and healthy pasta dishes are not oxymorons. In fact, there are several ways to include pasta dish recipes in a healthy meal. First, instead of cooking and eating your traditional pasta you can begin to incorporate whole grain and high fiber pastas into your meals. That gives you the benefit of healthy pasta…

Pasta dishes probably originated about a thousand years ago, as the first reference to this dish dates to 1154 in Italy. It refers to a number of different dishes, most of them made from unleavened dough mixed with water and formed into shapes or sheets, then cooked. Although wheat flour is the most common ingredient,…