On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:44:35 -0800, Dan Abel > shouted
from the highest rooftop:

>In article >,
> bob > wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:32:23 -0500, Goomba >
>> shouted from the highest rooftop:
>>
>> >And I never serve a vegetable side dish during the pasta course. A salad
>> >after the lasagna is the norm.
>>
>> A mixed green salad with rocket, two types of lettuce, mesculin,
>> sliced onion, red pepper, celery and cucumber dressed with Paul
>> Newman's light Balsamic is what I had after my spaghetti with clams,
>> Puntanessca sauce and Parmesan tonight. Burp!
>
>But what's for dessert? You *do* know what puttanesca is, don't you?
>
>:-)

LOL! I know what it means, but not how to spell it ... ;-)

>From my dictionary:
>
>puttanesca
>
>adjective [usually postpositive ]
>
>denoting a pasta sauce typically including tomatoes, garlic, olives, and
>anchovies : pasta puttanesca.
>
>ORIGIN Italian, from puttana 'prostitute' (the sauce is said to have
>been devised by prostitutes as one that could be cooked quickly between
>clients' visits).

A hardworking prostitute could fit in a few more clients with my usual
summer pasta sauce.

I simply chop up some ripe tomatoes, add a pinch or two of sea salt,
tear up some fresh basil leaves and mix into the toms with my hands,
cover and put aside for twenty minutes to meld. Then I bung it on top
of some freshly cooked pasta, add some Parmesan & freshly ground black
pepper and devour.

The much spicier Puttanesca sauce I had last night was made with toms,
olive oil, anchovies, olives, capers, herbs, dried chilli, salt &
pepper. All I added was a few dozen clams.

The sauce is made by our neighbours, who are both master chefs as well
as lovely people. To fit into their 24/7 job of bringing up 3 bright,
young sons they gave up their restaurant and started up an event
catering business and a company called The Matapouri Kitchen (after
the bay where we live) - which makes specialist sauces and dressings
for other restaurants and delicatessens.

Their commercial sauces are exquisite.



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una cerveza mas por favor ...

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