I Just Had A Dream About Pasta And I Awoke (1 Viewer)

[rockaction]

The story is in the title. I had a dream about pasta, and I came to. I think, in this diet age, pasta is winning the war against the anti-carbohydrates. It was a simple dish, ziti and meatballs with mozzarella. And I hit rapture. I can only imagine the others. 

A) Baked Ziti - The gold standard 

B) Lasagna - Afternoon delight 

C) Stuffed Shells - Aww, C'mon. 

D) Spaghetti and Meatballs with Mozzarella - Sheesh

Share with me your recipes. Your tired and poor. Your untrodden and downtrodden anti-ketos. Oh my God, I wanna hear them and scream for the heavens. 

Fatties unite!  You have nothing to lose but your weight! 

 

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Shrimp & chicken Creole. 

Sautee cubed chicken & shrimp until opaque (not fully cooked) - dust with fresh coarse black pepper 

Cut bell pepper, Vidalia onion into ~3/4” squares and sweat with minced garlic in EVOO

Add Diced celery, Hunts choice cut diced tomatoes, tomato paste, Worcestershire, Lemon, basil, oregano, black pepper, red pepper... add shrimp and chicken and let simmer. 

Start penne pasta 

When pasta is done, toss in EVOO and a bit of powdered Parmesan and fresh coarse black pepper. Top pasta with Creole. Top with shredded Parmesan and serve with garlic bread. 

 

[otb_lifer]

you will be visited very soon - by a man in a suit, who owns a dog

 

[rockaction]

you will be visited very soon - by a man in a suit, who owns a dog

Hello mother leopard, I have your cub
You must protect her, but that will be expensive
10,000 kola nuts, wrapped in brown paper
Midnight, behind the box
I'll be the hyena, you'll see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-_Hri6RIQs

 

[wikkidpissah]

Bowties & Gravy

Love me some sausage gravy, dont always have biscuits so, since gravy is halfway to a besciamella anyway, i send mine a little toward alfredo sauce and pour it over farfalle.

Saute a pound of sweet Italian sausage out of the casing w diced bell pepper & onion & garlic (and my green sauce - pour a jar of pickled nacho jalapenos including vinegar & a can of green chile in a bowl and hit it w the immersion blender, pour back in the jar and use a tablespoon in everything this side of cereal). When all the fat is rendered, sprinkle as much flour as is needed to sop it up and let the flour get a little color. Add any clear liquid you want (broth of any kind, coffee, beer, boullion if that's all you got, water even) til it's halfway to gravy and then as much milk as brings it to a pre-cheese alfredo sauce. Dash of nutmeg and a lot of pepper, of course. Throw a little of whatever cheese you have handy - ricotta or romano, cheddar or cream - just to the point where it still tastes as much like sausage gravy as alfredo sauce, and ladle over pasta.

 

[McGarnicle]

I love all the ones with uninterrupted ricotta -- manicotti, stuffed shells, ravioli, etc.

My wife's stuffed shells with homemade sauce, meatballs & sausage =  

 

[rockaction]

Ricotta, mozzarella, parmesan. In the words of a wise man, I celebrate the entire catalogue. I once watched a show on the making of ricotta. Loved it. So hungry. So salty/briny and good. 

Anybody ever read Heat by Bill Buford? It's a non-fiction work about his time as a line cook in Mario Batali's kitchen. 

Batali is awesome. One of the things on my bucket list is to eat at one of his restaurants in NYC. In the words of some guy in the book, "Just looking at that guy makes me hungry." 

Argy bargy.  

 

[Ilov80s]

My wife made bolognese with gemeli last night- ''twas a night for pasta I suppose.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I am the last one you want a recipe from so instead I got jokes.

Almost dropped a plate of Alphabeti Spaghetti. That could have spelled disaster.

Is mixing pasta and antipasto like mixing matter and anti-matter?

Q:  What do you call a bad neighborhood in Italy?
 A:  A Spaghetto.

 

[rockaction]

I am the last one you want a recipe from so instead I got jokes.

Almost dropped a plate of Alphabeti Spaghetti. That could have spelled disaster.

Is mixing pasta and antipasto like mixing matter and anti-matter?

Q:  What do you call a bad neighborhood in Italy?
 A:  A Spaghetto.

I just can't believe this thread got bumped from like Page Six. 

Page Six! Or something like it.  

That's what the Alphabet Spaghetti after millions of years spelled out. 

But I am open to any recipe, any tweak on Alpha-Bettos, anything. Just love me some pasta.  

 

[Galileo]

For when time is short, here is a quick Alfredo sauce:

1 stick butter

1 - 8 oz package of cream cheese

2 tsp garlic powder

2 cups milk

1 cup grated parmesean

1/2 tsp black pepper

Melt butter.  Add cream cheese, garlic powder and milk and whisk until chunks smooth out.  It is easiest for purposes of whisking to add the milk in small amounts.  Stir in parmesan and black pepper.  Cook to thicken or add more milk to thin until desired consistency.  That's it.  Alfredo in a few minutes.  Granted it will likely not be the greatest alfredo you will ever have, but it is simple and serves its purpose well.

 

[simey]

Almost dropped a plate of Alphabeti Spaghetti. That could have spelled disaster.

Is mixing pasta and antipasto like mixing matter and anti-matter?

Q:  What do you call a bad neighborhood in Italy?
 A:  A Spaghetto.

Where did the spaghetti go to dance?

The Meat Ball

 

[Scoresman]

I hate when "Italian" restaurants have Bolognese sauce on the menu, then you just get a meaty, runny tomato sauce.  That's not Bolognese.  Bolognese is a meat sauce, not a tomato sauce.

While there are many variations to an authentic bolognese sauce, the essentials include a hefty amount of mirepoix (carrot/celery/onion),  ground beef, and just a touch of tomato.  That's it.  No bigass cans of tomatoes, no basil or oregano.  Bolognese is a simple sauce.  Here's my recipe.

Take equal parts onion, carrot, and celery and mince them pretty fine.  Get a big pot or dutch oven add some butter or olive oil and start cooking the veggies over medium heat until well softened.  Add the ground beef and break it all up.  You want to brown the meat fairly well.  Brown means brown, not gray.  A lot of people only cook ground beef until it is gray and it ends up flavorless.  Add anywhere from 1/2 to a full can of tomato paste.  That's all the tomato this sauce needs.  Some recipes don't even use tomato at all.  Mix it in and let it cook a few hours mostly covered since it wont need to reduce much.  Add salt and pepper to taste.

Optionally, you can dice up some pancetta and throw it in there with the beef, and you can also add white wine for depth. I frequently add both.  You can also make it with a mixture of beef, pork , and veal for the meat.

The best type of pasta for this hands down is Tagliatelle.  This is a chunky, meat sauce that needs a wide noodle to stick too.  If you're being served spaghetti bolognese, they don't know what they are doing.  

 

[Bull Dozier]

Reminded me of the Onion headline I saw today; "Italian Grandmother Doesn't Have Heart to tell Family Any Dip#### Can Make Lasagna."

 

[James Daulton]

Man I made some killer lobster fettuccine with Alfredo sauce.  100% All homemade and 100% delicious.