Noodlemania!: 50 Playful Pasta Recipes

By Melissa Barlow

You’ll go noodle crazy with the playful and colorful pasta recipes in Noodlemania! It’s filled with hot and cold main dishes, salads, and even desserts! Try Super Stuffed Monster Mouths made with jumbo pasta shells, Rapunzel Pastamade with extra-long spaghetti, Spider Cookies made with crunchy ramen noodles, or Gloppy Green Frog Eye Salad made with acini di pepe. Noodlemania! also teaches basic math skills and includes fun trivia. Which pasta name means “little ears”? What’s the world record for the largest meatball ever made? Kids will have fun in the kitchen while sharpening their cooking skills with Noodlemania!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: May 14, 2013
• ISBN: 9781594746697

Reviews for Noodlemania!

[brokenteepee · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

What a fun cookbook! It takes classic noodle based recipes and makes them fun for kids to both help make and eat. The book is broken down into the different categories of noodle and even offers a dessert section! One of my favorite titles was "Green Stink Bugs" - a very simple presentation of cooked orrichette pasta with pesto sauce. But how much more fun is it to eat Green Stink Bugs than Orrichette with Pesto? Huh? Serve a simple salad on the side and you're ready to go!The book has easy to follow directions and lots of fun facts along way - such as ladybugs are thought to bring good luck with the recipe for Little Ladybug Salad. There are loads of photos and some adorable illustrations. Many of the recipes could easily be followed by older children wishing to prepare dinner for the family.There is nothing new or groundbreaking in the book but there is a whole world of FUN. Making food fun is half the battle in getting kids to eat things that are good for them. Noodlemania will help do that.

[bookscookslooks · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

What a fun cookbook! It takes classic noodle based recipes and makes them fun for kids to both help make and eat. The book is broken down into the different categories of noodle and even offers a dessert section! One of my favorite titles was "Green Stink Bugs" - a very simple presentation of cooked orrichette pasta with pesto sauce. But how much more fun is it to eat Green Stink Bugs than Orrichette with Pesto? Huh? Serve a simple salad on the side and you're ready to go!The book has easy to follow directions and lots of fun facts along way - such as ladybugs are thought to bring good luck with the recipe for Little Ladybug Salad. There are loads of photos and some adorable illustrations. Many of the recipes could easily be followed by older children wishing to prepare dinner for the family.There is nothing new or groundbreaking in the book but there is a whole world of FUN. Making food fun is half the battle in getting kids to eat things that are good for them. Noodlemania will help do that.