Status Updates From The Geometry of Pasta

Finished pastas starting with letters Q, R & S (2, 6 & 7 kinds in total, respectively). Starting to get the hang of it; evidently a lot of pastas have mini versions and those would have a variant names bahahaha.

Finished pastas starting with letters O & P (2 & 8 kinds in total, respectively). Cool to know there's so many pastas starting with the letter P.

Finished pastas starting with letters L & M (4 & 6 kinds in total, respectively). Okay, the illustrations for "maccheroni alla chitarra" and "maccheroni inferrati" are just... IDK, the names are terribly confusing, since they don't look to be closely related to macaroni lol.

Finished pastas starting with letters D, F & G (3, 6 & 7 kinds in total, respectively). I admit I'm starting to skim through the recipes lol (like I said, for food, I'd prefer getting the visuals of what they actually look like), but learning about more kinds of pastas is still fun.

Finished pastas starting with letter C (15 kinds in total). Def. was not aware that just pastas starting with the letter C has so many lol. Really would have helped to put this info onto the TOC. Fun.

Finished pastas starting with letters A & B (4 & 3 kinds in total, respectively). I'm fine with the black-and-white, very graphic illustrations, when it's depicting the pastas themselves; that said, urgh, when there's actual recipes, I'm afraid I'd always prefer photographs over words only. But that's just me lol.

Finished the "introduction", "important notes", and "basics" that are basically just really short sections prepping us for the huge chunk that comes after, which unfortunately was just generically labeled as one big section on the index without detailed page numbers for easier navigation when jumping from content to content.

I wouldn't normally count recipe books as something 'to read' for Goodreads but this includes pages on the history and styles of a lot of different pastas so I can read it from front to back and gain knowledge along the way. I'm also using it as a chance to stick page markers on some of the recipes that I particularly like the sound of and would like to try.

Downside of homemade pesto: one pound of pine nuts costs about as much as my cell phone bill. Upside of homemade pesto: everything else.

Sausage, tomato, and saffron sauce is INSANELY delicious. I am going to straight up eat the sauce on a roll tomorrow.