Most people cook pasta by feel. It works on busy nights, but it usually leads to leftovers that linger in the fridge or plates that feel a little too light. Since pasta expands as it cooks, figuring ...

A: When a recipe lists 2 cups of pasta, mostly likely it means dry pasta. With Free Press Test Kitchen recipes, if we want you to use cooked pasta we would list it as “2 cups cooked pasta.” If we want ...

A reader asks “When an ingredient list calls for “2 cups” of pasta, to what does that refer? Two cups of cooked pasta is enough, but being listed on the ingredient list causes me to think the recipe ...