TOD: There are many, many, MANY pasta dishes everyone should try. Among my favorites:
Tortellini con ragu (this would be the meat-stuffed tortellini in basic spaghetti meat sauce). Top it off with freshly grated Parmesan. Open a liter of red table wine with which you may wash it all down.
Pasta with olive oil sauteed with garlic cloves and crushed red pepper and topped with freshly grated Parmesan. This goes best with a white wine, but red works, too.
Spaghetti al arrabiata. Yummmm. Traditional meat sauce spiked with either chili or red pepper flakes. It should be hot enough to induce a sweat while eating, but not too hot to actually enjoy. Variations include a sausage sauce al arrabiato.
Oh, good golly. I've just finished a bacon and egg sandwich and I'm getting hungry.