{"id":1386,"date":"2013-04-19T13:51:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T17:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heather-maclean.com\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2016-03-21T15:44:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T15:44:30","slug":"how-to-measure-dry-pasta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/how-to\/how-to-measure-dry-pasta\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Measure Dry Pasta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1387\" src=\"http:\/\/heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/drypasta.jpg\" alt=\"drypasta\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/>If you\u2019re measuring out dried pasta into the pot and don\u2019t know how much you need, consider the average girl eats about one cup of cooked pasta. You\u2019ll need <strong>half that much of the dried pasta<\/strong>, so pour in a half cup. Measure out half of that for kids, and double for big boys.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t pour spaghetti into a cup, so here\u2019s a trick my grandma <!--more-->taught me. Make the OK sign with your first finger and thumb. Now tighten it up so the opening is the size of a nickel. Stick some dried spaghetti in there: that\u2019s how much spaghetti you\u2019ll need for one adult. Make the hole small as a dime, and you\u2019ve got a kids\u2019 portion. Big eater? Give \u2019em a quarter- sized bunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re measuring out dried pasta into the pot and don\u2019t know how much you need, consider the average girl eats about one cup of cooked pasta. You\u2019ll need half that much of the dried pasta, so pour in a&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/how-to\/how-to-measure-dry-pasta\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3229,"href":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}