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A food dish commonly served in Italy that is prepared with ravioli pasta. Made with noodle dough, the ravioli is stuffed with raisins that are mixed with ricotta cheese that has been aged.

A kitchen utensil that may have cutting wheels or cutting circles used to cut pasta dough into strips, circles, squares, or other pasta shapes.

Stuffed pasta that is small and round in shape or shaped like a half circle with an edging that has an embossed or ruffled appearance.

Refers to pasta that is shaped like tiny letters. They are most often used in soups and are very popular with children.

A kitchen utensil, also referred to as a Pasta Rolling Machine, that is used to roll pasta dough into thin sheets of pasta.

A pasta variety that consists of two short pasta strands that are twisted together into a spiral shape.

A wide hollowed out tubular pasta. It is basically a larger version of ziti pasta. Zitoni pasta is also known as cannaroni.

A pasta variety that is shaped like a tiny conch shell. It is most suitable for soups and pasta salads.

A pasta variety that is shaped like a small conch shell. It is commonly used in pasta salads and with meat sauces.

Long strands of pasta that are very similar to Angel hair pasta, only Capellini is slightly thicker....

A stuffed pasta made in several different shapes, which may be square like ravioli, half circle-shaped like anolini, or twisted into a rounded form to appear like the shape of a small hat similar to cappelletti.

A stuffed pasta made by placing filling on a 2 inch square of pasta and then folding the square of pasta in half from one corner to the opposite corner, forming a triangle shape.

A popular and common food made from a paste-type dough consisting of durum wheat flour, salt, and a liquid that may be in the form of water, milk or eggs.

Wide pasta noodles approximately 2 inches in length that have been slightly twisted to provide a shape similar to a ruffled strand of ribbon.

A pasta variety that is a thin, short, curled strand of pasta. Its shaped resembles a half circle with one end curled in.

A type of pasta that may be made as a large dried tube or as a flat sheet of pasta that will be filled with ingredients and rolled into a tube shape.

Small rings of pasta that are used in various soups and are also suitable for salads. A smaller version of the pasta is known as anellini.

A pasta variety that has a mushroom shape and is suitable for use in a variety of soups. A smaller version of this pasta is called funghini.

A pasta variety that has the shape of small mushrooms and is suitable for use in soups. It is basically as smaller version of funghetti pasta.

Thin tube pasta with sharp diagonally cut ends, which resemble the end of a quill pen. Penne pasta is approximately 1 ¼ to 1 ½ inches in length.