Pasta Cooking Guide: From Homemade Shells to Ravioli

Cooking the perfect pasta requires mastering techniques from boiling lasagna sheets to pan-frying pierogies. From making sea shell pasta from scratch to finding low-fat substitutes for Alfredo sauce, explore versatile pasta recipes.

Calories in Pasta With Pesto

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Ramona French

Pesto means paste, and interestingly, so does the word pasta. Pesto refers to a paste of herbs, nuts and oil used to flavor foods. Pasta refers to the dough or paste used to make spaghetti, rigatoni and other dried and fresh pastas.