ACTIVITY 1: Fill in the Blanks! Directions: Read the sentences and fill the missing words. Choose your answers inside the box. chunkier sauces thin sauces heavier sauces soups cooking time to the tooth oil 2 to 2% breaks apart I to 1½ 1. Pasta shapes with holes or ridges, such as wagon wheels or rotini, are perfect for 2. Thin, delicate pastas, such as angel hair or vermicelli, are better served with light 3. Thicker pasta shapes, such as fettuccine, work well with, 4. Very small pasta shapes, like alphabet shapes and acini di pepe, are good for 5. The larger and fuller the pasta shape, the longer the 6. Al dente is an Italian phrase that means, 7. The pasta volume increases times during cooking. 8. When overcooked pasta is combined with a sauce, it is often, 9. Fresh egg pasta, if it has not been allowed to dry, takes only. minutes to cook after the water has returned to a boil. 10. To serve pasta as part of salad, when it is cool, drain and toss lightly with to prevent sticking or drying out.
