I was browsing Pinterest the other day (looking for Valentine Craft Ideas) and noticed this recipe for Instant Pot Baked Ziti. I immediately was a bit annoyed because look at the picture of the baked "ZITI"
Do you notice something unusual about the baked "ZITI" - that is right ladies and gentlemen, it is NOT ZITI - it is CAVATAPPI. The blog writer, even said that she uses cavatappi in this baked ziti recipe.
So why doesn't she call it Baked Cavatappi ? Well, for that matter, it is made in the Instant Pot, so it isn't even baked, really.
This is ZITI
This is CAVATAPPI
It reminds me of how often I see Macaroni & Cheese using the wrong pasta. This happens a lot on blogs but even in restaurants....a local BBQ place I go to has great "Macaroni & Cheese" - only they don't use macaroni - they use Penne. So it isn't Mac & Cheese, it is technically Penne & Cheese.
Here is a recipe I found on Pinterest for Macaroni & Cheese
Do you see the problem? There is NO MACARONI in this picture at all - again we have CAVATAPPI
So is Cavatappi and Ziti the same or is Cavatappi and Macaroni the same?
Here is Macaroni
So for the record...this is SHELLS and Cheese (not Macaroni & Cheese as the blogger calls it.)
The blogger put this as the ingredient for her "Mac & Cheese"
1 pound elbow macaroni (such as shells or cavatappi)
No, no, no !! Not "SUCH AS" - if she said "OR" instead of "SUCH AS" it wouldn't bug me as much... I don't care that you use shells or cavatappi but neither one of those is elbow macaroni.
Now I know in the scheme of life, this is no big deal and honestly, I don't care WHAT kind of pasta someone chooses in a recipe, but it is just a pet peeve that they call pastas by their wrong names in recipes.
How can a recipe be called "Baked Ziti" when there is no ziti in it? How can a recipe be called "Penne with Peas", when there is no Penne it it? How can a recipe be called "Spaghetti & Meatballs" when it is made with Bowtie pasta ?
Oh well...just had to get that off my chest. 😂
