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Sunday, March 1. 2015

Winter suppers (or 3 AM breakfasts): Spaghetti alla Carbonara

Yummy, quick, cheap and easy for an early winter supper. Best with pancetta, but bacon will do in a pinch. Thin spaghetti, please, always, and more ground pepper than you think. Maybe linguine instead of spaghetti is ok.


Tyler shows you how.


It's sort of a Southern Italian version of bacon and eggs, also good for a 3 am meal after bar-hopping and flirting all night.


But the classic for that purpose is Whore's Spaghetti, the highly-flavored Spaghetti Puttanesca. Capers, olives, and anchovies. White anchovies in jars or fresh, not the disgusting brown ones in tins.

Posted by The Barrister in Food and Drink, Our Essays at 07:46 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Puttanesca without onion or red pepper flakes? Monstrous!

Try this : http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/puttanesca-sauce-recipe.html

Emeril calls for basil instead of oregano, I say add a touch of both and maybe a dash of red wine, Primitivo, perhaps.

After all recipes are mostly just shopping lists for the ingredients you need and a general guide to cooking times. Make everything to taste---cooking's not science, liking baking is.
#1 Earl T on 2015-03-01 11:25 (Reply)
Sicilians have a wonderful dish that also uses preserved fish--Pasta al Sardo:
Combine 1/2 small yellow onion, 1/4 cup chopped sweet red pepper and olive oil in pan and melt-do not brown.
Stir in 1TB tomato paste, 2TBs currants or raisins, 2Tbs pine nuts.
Add 1 can oil packed picante sardines; add Tabasco sauce to taste.
Spoon sauce over al dente #12 De Cecco spaghetti, sprinkle 1/3 cup toasted breadcrumbs on top.
Serves 2
#2 lectrolink on 2015-03-01 13:13 (Reply)
Yep. I had that in Sicily. Nice lunch.
#2.1 Bird Dog on 2015-03-01 13:26 (Reply)
Mrs. feeblemind just got around to watching the video and loved it. She added that she would add peas for color, and she will make it at some point in the near future.
#3 feeblemind on 2015-03-02 17:48 (Reply)

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