Comments on: How can I reuse or recycle leftover cooked pasta?

By: Ina

Ina — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:05:17 +0000

Tuoni e lampo – got that from an Italian cookbook: heat pasta shape and cooked chickpeas in olive oil with lots of garlic; add chopped parsley. Parmesan optional. Nice eaten with salad.

I always cook more pasta than I need, to save time and energy – lots of stuff you can do with the leftovers.

By: Vicky

Vicky — Sun, 03 May 2009 00:03:11 +0000

Make greek Pastitsio (sp?) or lasagna. Just make layers of the pasta and some meat and red sauce, and whatever kinds of bits you have laying around that would go.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:34:03 +0000

I like it~

By: Molly

Molly — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:17:51 +0000

This happened to me after a recent family dinner after I made WAYYY too much spaghetti! Half of it got added at the end of stir-frying beef and vegetables with a bunch of teriyaki and soy sauce. Make sure the beef and veggies are almost totally cooked by the time you add the spaghetti to the stir fry, because you just want to heat it and give it a chance to absorb a little soy sauce.

The other half of the leftovers got chopped into slightly-longer-than-bite-sized pieces and used in a pasta bake. It’s like baked ziti, only with whatever leftover pasta you happen to have on hand. I even topped it with a couple lasagna noodles for smooth finish.

By: Madlyn

Madlyn — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:09:36 +0000

Left over pasta, Italian style!

Using olive oil and minced garlic in a fry pan, add the cooked pasta, salt and pepper to taste and a good Friday ( no meat) meal!

By: Sandi

Sandi — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:12:33 +0000

Make a salad. Add chopped vegetables, meat, fruit, nuts, cheese and your choice of dressing….yummy with Thai, Greek or Italian

By: Emma

Emma — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:26:06 +0000

I work in a childcare center and we’ve used leftover speghetti as a sensory project. Basically, we fill a bin (or our sensory tables) with the speghetti, maybe add some food coloring, put little toys, cups, silverware, anything in with it and let the kids play! They learn all kinds of things…and they can eat it too!

By: Karmae

Karmae — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:01:38 +0000

We used to make suncatchers that were kind of like stained glass with leftover cooked spaghetti when we were kids. You mix up some white glue with food colouring or paint. Dip each piece of pasta into the mix to coat and then swirl it or coil it into a flat shape. Add more with different colours making sure that all bits touch another bit at one point. Use as many colours as you want. work on top of a piece of foil, plastic or waxed paper.
Let dry. Then you hang the item in the window. We used to make Christmas and other holiday type ornaments like this. It really does give a sense of stained glass.

By: Peg

Peg — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:17:41 +0000

This is a reply about using dog/cat feces. Great in a reply about pastas, Huh??

From Mother Earth News: Place the dog/cat feces ALL around the outer edge of your garden to keep rabbits, and other veggie eating critters out of your garden. According to Mother, the wild critters won’t cross over the scent of dogs/cats. Good Luck

By: Peg

Peg — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:25:17 +0000

I’ve saved leftover pasta in the freezer until I have enough to make a “pasta pudding.” I cut the spaghetti, lasagne noodles, etc. into smaller, bite sized pieces. I make the custard base for bread pudding, but use the precooked, thawed pasta, instead of bread.

By: Stephen Waddington

Stephen Waddington — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:19:51 +0000

We feed ours to our hens, and they love it.

By: Bobbie

Bobbie — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:35:46 +0000

It is delicious for breakfast. Just scramble it with a couple of eggs, some salt and pepper and voila breakfast!