My Strategy for Cooking Pasta for One to Two People — Recipes from The Kitchn

Pasta is often thought of as an easy dinner for four or more people. But it's a little annoying for just one or two, since most recipes make a large amount and it's a bit of pain to pull out just enough spaghetti for one person from the box.

"Make the whole recipe and have leftovers!" the crowd says. Well as much as my husband and I love pasta, we don't actually want to eat what's left of it for the whole rest of the week.

Here's my strategy: It's dead simple and makes pretty much all pasta recipes out there, that serve four to six, yours for the taking.

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