Pappardelle with Creamy Bolognese Sauce

Now that we have both a Bolognese sauce and homemade pasta, the easiest meal is to combine them. I love to add béchamel to the Bolognese, as well as some mozzarella for a truly comforting bowl of pasta. Of course, it’s fine to use store-bought pasta and hard mozzarella. It’s just different. It’s really the sauce that’s the star here.

A note on cooking pasta: Most basic recipes describing how to cook pasta suggest boiling it in salted water. What does that mean? It does not mean putt