Re: What vegetable goes with Lasagna?

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

In article <lh1jn41f2m9efhatjao8c3b9j4f2d3uu9c@xxxxxxx>,
bob <akabob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:32:23 -0500, Goomba <Goomba38@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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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