Usually before matches I eat plain pasta with a little bit olive oil, salt, pepper and chicken.
I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot.
Dinner is usually just pasta with mushrooms.
A box of spaghetti can take seven minutes to cook, and you can make a sauce at that time with perhaps garlic, olive oil, and zucchini. Then you've got yourself a complete meal. The whole thing shouldn't take more than half an hour.
I am an expert at applying premade pesto to pasta.
When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.
In the wintertime I like macaroni and cheese.
One of my favorite dishes is this alfredo I make, and I make the sauce from scratch. I love making everything from scratch.
Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
Spaghetti is love.
I love macaroni and cheese. I could eat it every meal of the day.
My son loves my carbonara. I've tried to master that recipe - it's very simple but very delicate. Once prepared it must be eaten quickly.
I make a vegan baked ziti. And even though that doesn't sound enjoyable, it really is.
My favourite meal is penne carbonara - that's good for an athlete, right?
I always try and have a snack before an event - usually a small bowl of chickpea pasta, which is quick to make and delicious with just salt and pepper and a little bit of butter.
If someone offers me a hot plate of Penne Arrabiata, fageddaboutit.
The strands of spaghetti were vital, almost alive in my mouth, and the olive oil was singing with flavor. It was hard to imagine that four simple ingredients [olive oil, pasta, garlic and cheese] could marry so perfectly.
Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.
I make a big pot of pasta with vegetables, and I stretch it out for the week.
My favourite meal is probably chicken with penne pasta and pesto.
I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.
After coating pasta with tomato-rich meat sauce, my mom would drizzle the bottom of a nonstick pot with oil and put it all back in to form a dark crust of tangled noodles. Once she unmolded it at the table like a cake, my brothers and I would excitedly cut into it, verbally laying claim to our preferred pieces.
I cooked a little bit in my first movie; I did a movie called 'Made.' For the little kid in the movie, I do a scene where I'm preparing a pasta puttanesca. I always loved watching that scene.
Each individual has their own pre-match ritual and pick off the menu. But I usually have a bit of pesto - either spaghetti or penne. On game-day I'll add a bit of meat to it and maybe some greens.
Grilled salmon and brown pasta works for me every time.
