"W. Baker" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove > wrote:
> : Does anyone know the difference between these things? They seem pretty
> : similar. Wikipedia says Tetrazzini has parmesan cheese, mushrooms and
> : almonds in it. Which I thought sounded weird. And in looking it up I
> : didn't see any recipes that contained almonds. I'm thinking this is
> wrong.
> : Some recipes have some sort of cheese but others do not. Some use a
> cream
> : of something or other soup but others use a white sauce. I am thinking
> now
> : that what I really had at school that I liked was Tetrazzini. I don't
> think
> : I have ever had anything ala King except for something nasty I once made
> in
> : CA. It came from a can. And nobody liked it.
>
> Cream soups are actually shortcuts offor a cream or white sauce, so
> recipes will vary. IIFC we had what they called turkey tetrazzini at
> college. It was a creamsauce bsed dish with turkey(rather than th eusual
> chicken) mushrooms adn other stuff served on spachetti with
> cheese(grated). I never had it anywere else.
>
> I guess you could consider it the Italian verson of creamed chicken or
> A-L-King.

Italian? I thought Tetrazzini was American?