Cooking Italian

[RIHans]

I subscribe to one cooking mag...Saveur. The holiday issue is all about Italian Christmas. Nice.

Providence is mentioned in the story, we have a little Italy here on Federal Hill. Pucci knows, but there
is good italian all around the state.

I like good meatballs, and the red sauce it is cooked in. What you got?

[deano]

I'm all about Italian sausage. Plus the peripheral things... Wife and I are really digging on some tapanade right now.

[rebelvox]

here is the thread you are looking for ...

http://www.velocipedesalon.com/forum...ipe-24192.html

[Shinomaster]

My grandmother always added her meatballs to the sauce raw, to be cooked in the sauce. Anyone else do that? Anyone put butter in their red sauce?

[RickM]

My grandmother always added her meatballs to the sauce raw, to be cooked in the sauce. Anyone else do that? Anyone put butter in their red sauce?

Yes and Yes. Since your pot of gravy, (Sauce..? No self-respecting Eye-talian grandma would call it "sauce". It's GRAVY..) should be sitting on the stove 24/7/365 ready to go...the meatballs can be added on an ongoing basis and they'll cook fine. Always add a big dollop of butter to the gravy as the mood strikes you. A glug of vino, too. One can..and should..also toss in any appropriate forms of lefover or extra meat; chicken pieces, pork chops, etc.. Tasty.

[Shinomaster]

Well, my granny is Polish and god knows how she learned how to make spaghetti and meatballs back in the 40's or 50"s, or whenever it was. She didn't use the butter fwiw, but there was a recipe in Bon Appetite recently that cooked the balls in the sauce and it called for about a stick (yikes) of butter. Haven't tried that though. I liked this recent NYT article. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/di...EtzpXdTxDsZxbg

[j44ke]

We made porcini & chanterelle orecchiette the other night. Key ingredients obtained at Eataly near Madison Square on 23rd. Kind of expensive, but if you only get the essentials you get the zing in the food while minimizing the zap to the wallet.

Best Italian food blog I know is Elizabeth Minchilli's. She teaches in Rome, both cooking and market-going if you are ever there.

Neither of us (my wife nor I) is Italian, but who doesn't like Italian food?

[RIHans]

Mr.j44ke,

You are now the Eataly man-on-point. Don't refuse. To late.

This place is on my places-of-things-to go-to. Good on you.
I can google pictures.

Go there, and cook...humble whatever ,we like cooks!

[j44ke]

Mr.j44ke,

You are now the Eataly man-on-point. Don't refuse. To late.

This place is on my places-of-things-to go-to. Good on you.
I can google pictures.

Go there, and cook...humble whatever ,we like cooks!

Mission accepted. We just bought an apartment a handful of blocks away, and I kid you not but its proximity to Eataly (and several other food provisioners) weighed heavily in on our decision. It is almost always a madhouse but the mozzarella is perfect, there's daily fresh pasta and bread, pizza dough for $3.50 a ball (which is cheap enough to not make it oneself,) and and and....

It is easily one of the top tourist destinations for Italians.

[Too Tall]

Dewd. The orecchiette con le cime di rapa just made my NYE food to make list. This is exactly what I love about Italian cooking.