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How to make Italian pasta

by: Youffraita

Thu Dec 08, 2011 at 16:44:38 PM EST

I thought these might be of interest to people here. (Newp, as always, feel free to pop up and give us the benefit of your expertise! We miss you, sweetie!)

I won't translate the name of this sauce for you, you will have to watch the video for that! But it doesn't get much more Italian: everything has been translated into English:

Youffraita :: How to make Italian pasta

Pasta alla Carbonara:

Sauce Bolognese:

It was quite an accident on my part that I kept coming up with videos from the same woman...but she's definitely Italian, the sauces are (afaict) authentic, and I'm being inspired to cook by them. As soon as I have the ingredients in hand, I will do so.

Ignore the "spaghetti" part, though: these would be just as tasty with al dente linguine. (Yes, I have a prejudice against spaghetti dating from my penurious college years, when the cheapest spaghetti was all we could afford. Now, although I am still penurious, I cough up the extra cash for good imported linguine whenever I can.)

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I want to make all of these. (15.25 / 4)

Don't you?

Admittedly, the videos are a bit slow to load...but so, so worth waiting for.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

by: Youffraita @ Thu Dec 08, 2011 at 22:27:32 PM UTC

Mmmmmmm....those recipes look yummy!! :p (15.50 / 2)

Thanks for posting them and sharing them with us, Youff! It's making me hungry! LOL

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

by: mplo @ Fri Dec 09, 2011 at 04:24:23 AM UTC

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Thanks, Miki (14.67 / 3)

I don't know which recipe I'd rather try first. Bolognese, maybe, but I've always loved Puttanesca sauce, too.

Oh! So many choices! Which one would you select?

BTW, I've been meaning to ask you: how is Aziza doing? She's so beautiful...I miss seeing your photos of her.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

by: Youffraita @ Fri Dec 09, 2011 at 04:45:40 AM UTC

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You're welcome, Youff! (13.00 / 2)

I, too am at a loss of what i'd rather try first, but am also leaning more towards the Bolognese.
The other sauces I'm not familiar with, especially since I'm so used to cooking my ordinary pasta meat sauce, with storebought sauce and hamburger, garlic and a bay leaf!

I've never liked olives, however.

Aziza is as bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as ever. Fresh, too! LOL! But she's great! I wouldn't give her up for the world. Thanks for asking about her!

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

by: mplo @ Fri Dec 09, 2011 at 14:10:28 PM UTC

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Very nice, Youff - (14.50 / 4)

Simplicity is best sometimes. It puts me in the mood to cook tomorrow - the puttanesca is a good idea - I haven't made it for awhile - a little different but I'll try this recipe.

For who could have foretold
That the heart grows old.
W.B. Yeats

by: Xanthe @ Fri Dec 09, 2011 at 00:12:11 AM UTC

Thanks, Xanthe (14.67 / 3)

Let us know how it turns out, OK?

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

by: Youffraita @ Fri Dec 09, 2011 at 00:48:10 AM UTC

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P.S., Xanthe: I will be at work tomorrow. (15.00 / 2)

If a plate of your pasta puttanesca somehow found its way to my workplace, I am sure that I and my coworker would thank you very much. As long as my coworker didn't know the ingredients, anyway. (Yes, I work with people for whom olive oil is an exotic ingredient and olives and anchovies are much reviled. This is why I buy a slice of pizza with olives and anchovies on my own time, and only tell them about it later, when they can go YUCK all they want, and I am smiling inwardly b/c it was SO delicious.)

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

by: Youffraita @ Fri Dec 09, 2011 at 05:00:56 AM UTC

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btw, I remember well the older ladies in (15.00 / 2)

the neighborhood who used to sit outside in summer muttering "puttan" when made-up ladies passed by --

I think the adjective is puttana.

For who could have foretold
That the heart grows old.
W.B. Yeats

by: Xanthe @ Fri Dec 09, 2011 at 10:43:27 AM UTC

In Spanish, I believe, (13.00 / 1)

the word is puta. Same meaning, though. ;-D

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

by: Youffraita @ Sat Dec 10, 2011 at 07:40:34 AM UTC

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"puttanesca" (15.00 / 1)

if I know anything about Italian (which I sorta do and sorta don't) would be "in the style of a puttana" -- well, if that's the adjectival version, maybe not. I suspect, though, that you're wrong in at least one sense: the noun should end in a "a" to be feminine. I think. The ladies you overheard may have dropped the last syllable in their speech? I'm usually pretty good at gender in Romance languages, unless they are irregular nouns).

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

by: Youffraita @ Sat Dec 10, 2011 at 07:46:34 AM UTC

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