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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2022 14:04:19 GMT
Let me know if you'd want an easy marinara recipe! It's a recipe I found years ago; not my own! Yes I would love a recipe to try! MARINARA SAUCE for Pasta 1/2 cup olive oil 2 cloves garlic, peeled & sliced 3 Tbsp. finely chopped parsley 3 Tbsp. finely chopped onion 1 can (28oz.) whole tomatoes 1 bay leaf Dash of salt & pepper Fresh basil leaves, optional ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *In large saucepan, heat oil over medium heat. *Add garlic and saute for 2 to 3 minutes. *Add parsley and onion. Slowly add tomatoes. Stir to break up tomatoes. *Add bay leaf, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil. *Cover and simmer sauce over low heat for about 15 minutes for flavors to blend. *Add some fresh, finely-chopped basil leaves, if available. *Serve sauce with spaghetti or other pasta dishes.
(Great American Recipes)
This is NOT my normal (real) Italian sauce recipes, but I made it once about 20 years ago and continue to make it. DH LOVED it over seafood. DD alwaysui thought it tasted like Pizzera Uno's spaghetti sauce. It's very quick and tasty. Hope you like it! I think that I had my real "Sunday Sauce" recipe on the original board (with meatballs and sausage).
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Post by melanell on Sept 10, 2022 0:24:09 GMT
I love pasta. I love rice, too, for that matter. I love all that you can do with them. I love the comfort food feeling of pasta. I'm sure for me it is part nostalgia---pasta has always been a huge part of my life. Some pastas were for everyday, some were for special occasions, some were for when you were sick, some were for soup. Some involved everyone gathering together to make the pasta. Some was the kind that this relative made, or that grandparent used to make. And so forth.
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Post by chaosisapony on Sept 10, 2022 1:43:30 GMT
Pasta is like lettuce. It's a vessel for all the tasty stuff that goes on top of it.
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Post by grammadee on Sept 10, 2022 1:56:43 GMT
Pasta is comfort food for me. We have it as a side with meat or fish and a veggie. I like it just plain with a little butter, maybe toss in a few shrimp. Sometimes I mix in some tomato soup or a mushroom sauce. The sauces usually served with it in a restaurant are often too spicy for me or contain ingredients my gut doesn't tolerate, so I will order plain pasta.
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Post by Just Beth on Sept 10, 2022 2:00:02 GMT
Pasta is the easiest, most versatile, most bang for my buck food I can keep in the house. Need to feed a bunch of boys who are bottomless pits? Pasta keeps them full the longest Need to feed a crowd? Pasta Need a less than 10 mins to the table meal after a long day? Pasta Need a lot of energy before a busy day? Pasta Need something you can put in a lunchbox and eat cold? Pasta Need something cheap because it’s the week before payday? Pasta Need to pull together something with all the half used leftovers in your fridge? Throw them over pasta Need to feed a mix of omnivores, vegetarians, and vegans? Pasta Want to unwind with some wine and try an elaborate new sauce recipe? Pasta This is exactly how I feel. Except I got child 4 of 4 a 13yo who loathes pasta and says it’s too slimy and would rather starve. Sigh.
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Post by twistedscissors on Sept 10, 2022 2:11:59 GMT
Thank you @bergdorfblonde
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Post by NanaKate on Sept 10, 2022 15:05:09 GMT
I'm meh about it. Rest of the house likes it, but doesn't ask for it regularly. Ds always asks for Mama Pasta for his birthday dinner. I do like rice, and can taste it. We eat a lot of rice bowls. What is Mama Pasta?
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Post by malibou on Sept 10, 2022 15:35:13 GMT
I'm meh about it. Rest of the house likes it, but doesn't ask for it regularly. Ds always asks for Mama Pasta for his birthday dinner. I do like rice, and can taste it. We eat a lot of rice bowls. What is Mama Pasta? Really it's just doctored up bottled pasta sauce 😁. Ds was quite late to the talking game and a typical picky eater. When he did finally talk at age 4, it was in full sentences. He had a lot of things he wanted to say, so he burst forward with sentences about all kinds of unrelated things. Around sentence #15, he asked me to make mama pasta, which was one of the foods he ate with no pushback. We never called it mama pasta, that was his name for it! 😇 He prefers the added meat to be sausage, but also likes seasoned ground turkey.
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RedSquirrelUK
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Sept 10, 2022 21:57:33 GMT
I like pasta. I prefer Asian noodles (ramen, somen, soba), but I wouldn't pass up a plate of pasta of any kind. I really like pasta salads. Maybe because it doesn't have much taste by itself, the pasta really picks up the flavor of whatever you put on it. But,I also like the taste of rice, just rice with nothing added to it (i.e. butter, salt, etc). Yes, I can taste rice. My family doesn't understand how I can taste plain rice. Rice has flavour, and different kinds of rice have different flavours. I love it plain with nothing added too. I don't eat wheat pasta, only rice pasta. I love it, but don't eat it every day. It's comfort food.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Sept 10, 2022 21:58:27 GMT
I love pasta, but it doesn't like me. It makes my joints hurt, my stomach bloat. I have it occasionally in summer pasta salads, and there's a red sauce Italian place in my town that is divine. But if I have too much, and/or too often, I regret it. Wheat pasta does that to me too. I only eat rice pasta which doesn't break my body. Have you tried rice pasta?
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Post by peano on Sept 11, 2022 2:02:26 GMT
I love pasta, but it doesn't like me. It makes my joints hurt, my stomach bloat. I have it occasionally in summer pasta salads, and there's a red sauce Italian place in my town that is divine. But if I have too much, and/or too often, I regret it. Wheat pasta does that to me too. I only eat rice pasta which doesn't break my body. Have you tried rice pasta? Yes, I've tried it. I guess I should have mentioned that I try to avoid any kind of pasta also because of the carbs.
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Post by mymindseyedpea on Sept 12, 2022 7:02:30 GMT
As a kid we used to have pasta but I don’t remember what was in it. I just remember plating the noddles from a bowl onto my plate with tongs.
But ever since being pregnant and eating two platefuls of just spaghetti and sauce when I was as eating for two, it has grossed me out to eat spaghetti with just sauce. There needs to be some kind of chunk like meat.
But at The Spaghetti Factory restaurant I can eat the spaghetti with brown butter, probably because they have the mizithra cheese for texture.
But yeah it feels like somethings missing when it’s just noodles and sauce which bores my mouth and almost gag-worthy.
I don’t know how people do it and why my family sometimes makes it like that.
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Post by gar on Sept 12, 2022 8:03:25 GMT
Have you tried rice pasta? Is rice pasta a dried product? Where would I find it in the supermarket?
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Sept 12, 2022 9:24:06 GMT
Have you tried rice pasta? Is rice pasta a dried product? Where would I find it in the supermarket? Yes it is. Look for Doves Farm Freee (with the extra "e") organic brown rice fusilli or spaghetti. It used to be available in the supermarkets but with Covid it's become one of those discontinued items. We buy ours from Amazon in a box of 6 here but there are other sellers. Holland Barrett do the Orgran brand but it's out of stock at the moment. Rice pasta used to be slimy and tasteless when it was first produced decades ago, but these days it's not much different from wheat pasta in texture or ease of cooking.
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Post by gar on Sept 12, 2022 9:44:57 GMT
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Sept 12, 2022 10:08:27 GMT
You're welcome. Let me know what you think?
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Post by gramasue on Sept 12, 2022 12:23:05 GMT
mmmmm a big bowl of egg noodles with butter, parmesan, salt & pepper is my biggest guilty pleasure food. Now I'm craving it! But I also love to eat plain rice too, or preferable with soya sauce on it. And yes plain rice definitely has flavour Try the egg noodles with butter and lemon pepper. So good! One of my favourites!
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Post by gar on Sept 12, 2022 12:49:12 GMT
You're welcome. Let me know what you think? I found some in Saindsbury's this morning - I'll let you know when we try it
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Sept 12, 2022 14:05:48 GMT
You're welcome. Let me know what you think? I found some in Saindsbury's this morning - I'll let you know when we try it Ooh well done! Ours hasn't got it.
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Post by huskergal on Sept 12, 2022 17:10:10 GMT
Wow! Color me shocked that there are people who actually hate pasta. Perfectly cooked al dente pasta is my guilty pleasure. I could eat it every day. I love what you can put on it, but I love pasta with just butter, garlic and some cheese. Yum! I just try to limit how often I eat it.
I love Asian pasta. I love rice. Plain white rice with butter (Kerrygold and salt)! Yum. Comfort food.
For jarred sauce, I love Rao's Marinara. A Costco staple for us!
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Post by papersilly on Sept 12, 2022 17:39:53 GMT
i'll take rice and bread over pasta anyday.
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