i'd never heard of spaghetti seasoning before, TIL. looks like lawry's and mccormick both have a version.
growing up, although my mom can cook, my dad did virtually all of the cooking because he had the job that allowed him to get home earlier. but the one thing my mom always made, was sauce. she'd make a huge pot on the weekend here or there, and then we'd freeze it. the recipe was passed down from my grandmother, who is irish, but when she and my grandfather were first married, they lived upstairs from an old, blind, italian man and he taught her how to make it. so when we had pasta for dinner, my dad boiled pasta, defrosted and heated up The Sauce. never, ever were they combined before hitting the plate. hot pasta went into a bowl, and a thick blanket of hot sauce went over the top. since learning to cook myself, i add some sauce to the pasta before serving but...i still like a thick blanket of sauce over the top. it just doesn't feel right otherwise.
and as for pasta as a side? as a born and bred new englander, if you went out to eat you could - and depending on the place, would - get a side of pasta with anything. even if the main was pasta, you would get more pasta on the side. even now some of the pizza/sub shop take out places will have things like lasagna or pasta and meatballs listed under "sides."
ps, "my family never...." "ok calm down" - fucking LOL. why do people always gotta be doing this so aggressively XD
I actually wanted to attend the last two classes you offered but it's hard to do during the workday....so thank you for offering a Saturday class, which I will sign up for! BTW, you had me at guayaba. I became blind to everything else once I read 'guayaba.'
Love this!! I am not Italian but where I live is like Italian-American capital, and people around here take pasta very seriously. We have some regional dishes I wonder if they have ever heard of in other parts of the country? Utica Riggies. Anyway, I don't eat fish but would totally try that spaghetti recipe out. We sometimes serve our leftover chili over spaghetti. My mom grew up in PR but said the little Italian grandmas taught her how to make sauce. We lean on garlic+shredded carrots for ours. Would love to try it with the smoked sausage which I prefer over all the local italian sausage I get. (Not a fan of the flavor profile with fennel)
Fish fryyyyyyy!!! As a WI native, it does my soul good to read about fried fish on Fridays. When I moved away in 1990 to go to massage college in CO, I never wanted to see a fish fry again. Stupid 29-year-old self! Same with mom's spaghetti. She's still in WI, although at 97 and a half years, her 'sketti-cookin' days are over. Love you, mom!
i'd never heard of spaghetti seasoning before, TIL. looks like lawry's and mccormick both have a version.
growing up, although my mom can cook, my dad did virtually all of the cooking because he had the job that allowed him to get home earlier. but the one thing my mom always made, was sauce. she'd make a huge pot on the weekend here or there, and then we'd freeze it. the recipe was passed down from my grandmother, who is irish, but when she and my grandfather were first married, they lived upstairs from an old, blind, italian man and he taught her how to make it. so when we had pasta for dinner, my dad boiled pasta, defrosted and heated up The Sauce. never, ever were they combined before hitting the plate. hot pasta went into a bowl, and a thick blanket of hot sauce went over the top. since learning to cook myself, i add some sauce to the pasta before serving but...i still like a thick blanket of sauce over the top. it just doesn't feel right otherwise.
and as for pasta as a side? as a born and bred new englander, if you went out to eat you could - and depending on the place, would - get a side of pasta with anything. even if the main was pasta, you would get more pasta on the side. even now some of the pizza/sub shop take out places will have things like lasagna or pasta and meatballs listed under "sides."
ps, "my family never...." "ok calm down" - fucking LOL. why do people always gotta be doing this so aggressively XD
I actually wanted to attend the last two classes you offered but it's hard to do during the workday....so thank you for offering a Saturday class, which I will sign up for! BTW, you had me at guayaba. I became blind to everything else once I read 'guayaba.'
Love this!! I am not Italian but where I live is like Italian-American capital, and people around here take pasta very seriously. We have some regional dishes I wonder if they have ever heard of in other parts of the country? Utica Riggies. Anyway, I don't eat fish but would totally try that spaghetti recipe out. We sometimes serve our leftover chili over spaghetti. My mom grew up in PR but said the little Italian grandmas taught her how to make sauce. We lean on garlic+shredded carrots for ours. Would love to try it with the smoked sausage which I prefer over all the local italian sausage I get. (Not a fan of the flavor profile with fennel)
Fish fryyyyyyy!!! As a WI native, it does my soul good to read about fried fish on Fridays. When I moved away in 1990 to go to massage college in CO, I never wanted to see a fish fry again. Stupid 29-year-old self! Same with mom's spaghetti. She's still in WI, although at 97 and a half years, her 'sketti-cookin' days are over. Love you, mom!
Love you, too, Illyanna! Thank you, as always.
Yum!!!
Am ok. Cancelled the class last night.