I wanted to stuff my face with pasta to comfort myself.

But for me, keeping dinner simple means leading with pasta.

Some olives would also be good in the sauce with pasta.

But it is hard to pick a quarrel with pasta.

In general, a meal with pasta as a main course and two glasses of wine would cost about $25 a person.

Season to taste, and serve with spaghetti or other long pasta.

But then I tried it with dried pasta, and the difference seemed insignificant.

Most diners start with a soup or pasta, then move on to a main course.

With pasta or without, it's the mint that is the star component here.

But when neither of us feels like eating much, and this happens often in hot weather, we usually end up with pasta.