5 tips for better pasta

Who doesn't love a good bowl of pasta. It's the very reason why Italian restaurants are the most popular in the country. 

Want to bring a fancy and expensive Italian restaurant directly to your own kitchen?

Sure you do, and it's really not that difficult. Cooking pasta isn't that difficult, most people just make a few simple mistakes when cooking pasta. If they would just make some small changes to how they cook it, their pasta would be elevated to the likes of Mario Batali.

Champions of Italian cuisine -- Batali included -- love to talk about these techniques because so many people just make pasta the wrong way. And, by wrong all I really mean is not they way its typically made in Italy. Since the Italians created it, I'm pretty sure they know what they're doing.

Here are the five biggest tips you can use to make your pasta just as good as they do in fancy Italian restaurants. 

Cooking 101: Tomato Sauce

A simple tomato sauce, or pomodoro sauce is one of the best things you can have in your arsenal of recipes. It's a simple go-to for a quick and easy dinner or a way to have a delicious  date night.

It can go with your favorite pasta or you can put it on a pizza. The possibilities are about as limited as your imagination. So put down the bottle of Prego and give this a try.