Most-asked shape in Scottdale
Rigatoni
Scottdale and Connellsville kitchens lean rigatoni, the shape coal-patch grandmothers used for Sunday gravy, and the one that holds up best against a slow-simmered tomato and pork sauce.
See our rigatoni →17 miles south of Latrobe · About 25 minutes
Fresh pasta for Scottdale, Connellsville, and the southern Westmoreland and northern Fayette County communities. Easy drive up Route 819 to our Latrobe shop.
Scottdale families who keep a garden and a freezer full of sauce know what fresh pasta should taste like. We see them at the counter most weeks, picking up a family-size bag of rigatoni or campanelle.
Everson, Connellsville, Dawson, Mount Pleasant Township.
ZIP codes: 15683, 15425
Most-asked shape in Scottdale
Scottdale and Connellsville kitchens lean rigatoni, the shape coal-patch grandmothers used for Sunday gravy, and the one that holds up best against a slow-simmered tomato and pork sauce.
See our rigatoni →A Scottdale pairing
Pair a family-size rigatoni with home-canned tomato sauce, plus sweet and hot Italian sausage from one of the Scottdale or Connellsville butcher counters.
Cooking tip for Scottdale
Reduce a quart of your own tomatoes with browned sausage for an hour, then boil rigatoni three and a half minutes and finish it in the sauce for one more. A southern-Westmoreland Sunday plate.
Driving in from Scottdale
From Scottdale, take Route 819 North through Mount Pleasant and into Latrobe. About twenty-five minutes through farmland and small-town main streets.
Open in Google Maps →All 10 shapes, in five sizes from $7 to $150. 5 sizes, $7 to $150.
Long, round strands with a tender bite and just enough surface texture to hold sauce.
Ruffled bells with deep pockets, built for cream sauces and baked dishes.
Big ridged tubes that grab heavy sauce and fill up in the middle.
Short ridged shells with a hollow back. Chewier and sturdier than a potato dumpling.
The same long strands, with spinach worked into the dough.
Ruffled bells in spinach dough. The prettiest thing we make.
Sturdy ridged tubes in spinach dough. Built for a bake.
Semolina gnocchi with spinach in the dough. Still not a potato dumpling.
Long strands in carrot dough, with a quiet sweetness underneath.
Ridged tubes in carrot dough. Sturdy, sweet-edged, and hard to miss on a plate.
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