Cooking Tip of the Day! Pasta

3 Tips for cooking pasta:

(image from howstuffworks.com)

-When cooking pasta…never add olive oil to the cooking water; Nothing should be added at this stage but salt.

-For perfect, “al dente” pasta, cut the noodles in half and when there is a small white center, it is ready to take out of the water

-Put noodles in a strainer and pour cold water over them to stop them from cooking further