When making your red sauce add a 1/4 tsp of ground star anise.

Green canister parm is better than no parm.

Don't buy sauce. Get a 28 ounce can of crushed tomatoes and season it before simmering for at least 40 minutes.

Brass extruded pasta is so much better for gripping sauce.

Garlic bread can be made with olive oil instead of butter.

If you aren't adding a pinch or red pepper flakes to your red sauce you should be shamed.

Garlic cheese bread.

cheap white wine in my lemony-caper sauce (Piccata?) i love it sooo much i could immerse myself in it (not recommended).

I converted my partner and my kid to the “real Genovese pesto”.

Recipe: half trofie (or any pasta), half small cut potatoes, same quantity of fresh green beens. Boil all together (requires a certain eye to determine when to trow each item in, but the original recipe is adamant this is the only way). Drain and add copious pesto sauce Encourage to add grated parmigiano or pecorino on your plate.

We love it so much, my partner has learned to make pesto from scratch and it’s better than most if not all commercially available ones.

I add herbs to the noodle water even before salting

I make a great puttanesca.

Brown a protein in a pan, add a can of drained mushrooms and an onion, add a can of diced tomatoes, salt and pepper, some Italian seasoning, and diced garlic then throw the cooked spaghetti in.

I like to do pureed tomatoes with a dollop of unsweetened peanut butter. Makes it creamy and really stick to the spaghet.