I should like to point out the obvious that nobody's honky assed puttanesca will be quite as good simply because Butty isn't bossing them how to do it right.
Combine:
3 cans Spaghetti-Os
1 pound or something tuna salad
1 c. sugar
1 c. mayonnaise
1 heaping Tbsp. diet sweet relish
1 can black olives
Add ketchup to taste, top with American cheese slices, microwave until cheese is melted.
I just got preemptively defensive, assuming I would get called out for not doing it right. Puttanesca is kind of my default pantry dinner these days, so it's probably 100% wrong and inauthentic, so I should just call it slutghetti or something.
But for reals:
Chop up fine:
1 can of anchovies
Some reasonable amount of capers, like a couple tablespoons. More if you're rich, I guess
Like nine cloves of garlic
A couple of red peppers if you have fresh, or just add dried if you don't
A handful of basil
Sweat in some olive oil plus the oil from the anchovies, and season with Italian herb blend (I premake mine so I don't have to get all the spices out every time), plus salt and fine ground black pepper.
Add diced tomatoes (fresh and/or canned) plus sliced Kalamata olives and simmer for a while, adjusting the spices and proportions, whatevs.
Then, and this is where I am going to get arrested. Sometimes, I put like whatever in it! Like last night, I had some curly mustard greens I needed to use, so I chopped them up and also put in some cannelini beans!
Cook a pound or so of spaghetti WAY al dente, like half the recommended cooking time, because it'll cook up a little more later. I cook the 11 minute kind for 5 because overcooked pasta is the most disgusting thing in the universe.
Drain the spaghetti, toss it with the sauce, then serve it with either parmesan or feta cheese.
btw, I love going to christian forums and just copying and pasting tidbits of yours, been sort of a pastime for me over the years. I am 'bout to go start me another thread entitled: 'this is a must try!-- Great for Lent recipe! post your own Lenten recipes!' I gaarr rone tee someone will try it.
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does this all have something to do with livius drusus not liking mayo? because I don't think she likes mayo.
I did add the mayo to that recipe because I know she hates it, but originally, I was just trying to preempt any challenges to me saying I was making puttanesca, where I imagined her taunting and bullying me for not making it right or something.
I didn't think she was actually going to call me out by name in an entire thread and ask me for the recipe! I panicked!
btw, I love going to christian forums and just copying and pasting tidbits of yours, been sort of a pastime for me over the years. I am 'bout to go start me another thread entitled: 'this is a must try!-- Great for Lent recipe! post your own Lenten recipes!' I gaarr rone tee someone will try it.
So by some random serendipitous event I'm watching Rango and this exchange takes place. I'm filing it under
Quote:
Beans: [unimpressed] You ain't from around here, are you?
Rango: [she walks away] I- I'm still working on it. Uh, so, what's your name?
Beans: [rummaging through glass bottles in her cart] Beans.
Rango: That's a funny kind of name.
Beans: What can I say? My daddy plum loved baked beans.
Rango: Well you're lucky he didn't plum love asparagus.
Beans: [quickly stands up] What... what're ya saying? Rango: I mean, I uh... I enjoy a hearty puttanesca myself, but I'm not sure that a child would uh, appreciate the moniker.
[picks up a jar with a sort of powder in it and puts some in his mouth]
Beans: [walking around the cart to Rango] My daddy was a great man, even if he did exhibit a proclivity for legumes, and... you...
[sees what Rango is eating]
Rango: Mmm, spicy!
Beans: You are eating his ashes!
Rango: [spits, disgusted] Eh! You carry his remains?
Beans: [takes the jar and reseals it] No! His ashes; he loved to smoke. They never found the body.
Rango: Oh. Um, I'm sure he had his reasons.
I seriously wasn't going to make fun of this (publicly), because it seemed sort of mean, and also the commercial is sad, but then, that CPAC thread convinced me they're probably just Republicans:
I looked it up, and apparently, you're supposed to also add some "chili powder" to the canned spaghetti sauce, I guess to overwhelm the spaghetti sauce seasoning. Or because people seriously can't distinguish like what different seasonings are or something? Maybe it's just all spicy ethnic food, even if it's just like oregano and basil?
Bonus recipe: Spaghetti tacos. To get your 'picky eaters' to eat either taco shells or spaghetti, I guess.
What, spaghetti sauce chili or spaghetti in a taco shell?
This is the thing that confuses me about the first: Why?
I once saw a Sandra Lee show where she got a frozen pumpkin pie, scraped the filling out of it, threw away the shell, and then made something out of the filling. The obvious thing there is, "You know you can just buy the filling in a can, right? That this whole thing makes it more difficult, sloppy, and expensive?"
So my question about that recipe is, "You know you can just buy tomato puree in a can, right?" That way, you could just season it the way you want, rather than trying to overwhelm the existing seasoning with something else. Same exact amount of steps, cheaper, and probably less gross even to a fussy kid.
Bonus recipe: Spaghetti tacos. To get your 'picky eaters' to eat either taco shells or spaghetti, I guess.
But... why?
I have another great idea then...
Sandwich tacos! Take a regular ham and cheese sandwich, and then put it in a taco shell. Top with shredded iceberg lettuce and ketchup.
ETA: I actually wouldn't be surprised if I saw pierogi tacos around here - mashed potatoes, cheese and onions in a taco shell. The only Pittsburgh specific foods I've seen involved putting potatoes in places where they're not needed. One is pierogi pizza, the same just on a pizza crust, and the other is sandwiches with meat, cheese, tomato, coleslaw, and French fries inside the sandwich.
I saw haggis quesadillas on a menu in Edinburgh. People will do anything with food.
One of my friends said the only difference between his mom's spaghetti sauce and her chili was the beans. Naturally enough, my mom's sauce was a revelation to him.
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