/ck/ - Food & Cooking

A Neapolitan Margherita with basel truly is the best pizza you will ever have.

I eat it well done, but when I choose to eat Fiorentina, it must be as it is, rare.

>>5880956
I created it, if it may concerns.

Second recipe:

Pasta all'arrabbiata:

Cook some spaghetti as usual; in a terrine have some basil, parsel, mint, oregano, cherry tomatoes and, if you want, some mozzarella.

When pasta is almost cooked, put the aforementioned ingredients into the pan, and wait until everything is done.

First recipe:
Mozzarella in carrozza:

Ingredients:
Toast bread
One egg for each "mozzarella in carrozza"(it requires two slices of bread)
Mozzarella sliced
Salt and oil
Flour

Shake the eggs in a terrine
Put the toast JUST BY ONE SIDE into this terrine, then into a terrine with flour inside;
Thus, have the mozzarella put on the "dry" side of the bread(the latter is soaked with egg and flour);
Repeat those lines for another slice of this bread;

Unite the aforementioned slices, then fry them in hot oil. When it's done, eat it.

Have you ever been interested in Italian cousine and its dishes?
Have you ever been curious about what Italian people eat daily?
Have you ever been eager to know what this little yet comfortable country can offer?

This thread may help you:
With the contribution of, I hope, many Anons, Italians or Americans or cooks wanting to know more about this culinarie tradition, we may discover something we don't know.


First question: How much do you pay for a bowl of pasta in a restaurant in your town? I go to a famous pizzeria, but prices there are very cheap: 10 euros for a big portion of pasta with clams.
For a good dinner the maximum is 40 euros, tips not included(here we don't give any kind of tips)

>>5880897
Why not? I would be very interested. It might be even nice for those who don't know our cousine.

>>5880862
E' quello che continuo a dire, anon, io appoggio quel che tu dici.
>>5880858
It may be, but I think that even in the USA there is a shrimp, therefore food shouldn't cost so much.

>>5880843
Un fritto misto, comprendente calamari, patatine, finocchi, zucche e gamberi fritti mi costò 8 euro e continua a costarmi 8 euro in qualsiasi punto d'Italia io vada, anon.

>>5880784
Scusa, ma hai mai visto una polpetta in un ristorante, per caso?

Even my family has a recipe for meatballs, but they obviously are "popular" dishes.

Italian here:
I'm going to base my comment upon a menu from an Omaha restaurant:
http://www.olivegarden.. com/menu-listing/pronto-lunch
Prices are ABSOLUTELY far from anything acceptable: 9 dollars for some fried calamari is beyond the reason.

Breadsticks look like some mini-baguettes, things we never have in a restaurant(maybe a schiacciata or some local bread, but very different).
Lasagna fritta must be pretty good, even if unseen in every Italian kitchen, so as stuffed mushrooms and fonduta of mozzarella(only in Naples you will have a sort of grilled mozzarella, mozzarella in carrozza)

Spicy calabrian wings? What are they?


Oh, something useful: apart from Naples and local kitchens, here NOBODY eats meatballs, it is an American tradtion, trust me.

Tortellini al forno are pretty odd, because the use would have them put in "brodo"(a sort of supper), but just the Bolognese one.

Obviously we don't have sandwiches in restaurants, guys, as we don't have CHICKEN parmesan(Parmesan comes from Parma, and it is done only with eggplants)

What is a zuppa toscana? I live in Florence, but I don't understand.

Would YOU, personally and honestly, recommend Wendy's or any other fast-food restaurant to some person whose country lacks of this "eating culture"?

A good bottle of wine may cost even 50, 60€, guys.
A flavourful Chianti is really expensive.

>>5822806
I sincerely don't know why a cotton flower has been chosen in my folder.

>the glorious feeling when a shitty Italian take-away pizzeria will surely be better than the most pompous American pizza-restaurant

Seriously, guys, have you ever been to Italy?

>USA in charge of making pizzas

Seriously?

What is a Mozzarella stick? Is it deep fried mozzarella? A sort of "mozzarella impanata"?
Are they made of mozzarella cheese?

>>5782773
In Italy it is called "pasta in bianco", and I assure you that nobody eats it. Apart from some rare meals in elementary school, I've never seen it in any restaurant or household.

No, seriously, there was just ONE person who ate pizza in Italy?
Albeit Turin is a great city, it obviously can't cope with making a good pizza. Even here, in Florence, pizzas are disgusting, compared to Neapolitan and Sicilian ones.

>>5762043
I remember having listened to a conversation among my parents when I was 9 or 10:
Basically our school was obliged to provide another kind of meal for kids with some religious problems or ethical ones or even medic ones.
I, for one, couldn't eat any dish with panna(cream) on it because I used to take medications which could led to severe consequences if taken with a "fat food".

For example: if the meal had cream on it, they used to give me a simple dish of pasta in bianco with a little parmesan cheese on it.

They still care about school cafeterias, though.
Nice to see it.

When I was in elementary school, we had lunch in a big room. There were 3 elongated tables, where you used to sit.
Staff would give a dish of pasta or rice(it depended on the daily menu), then some meat or fish and the vegetables.
Obviously we had not plastic dishes, but hard ones; and glasses made of real glass. And, obviously, iron cutlery.
It still is one of the sectors where every Comune spends willingly its money.

>>5761912
I tried 'nduja once; I must say I was a little disappointed; I thought it would be hotter.
Very fat, nonetheless.

Jesus Christ, some extravergin olive oil will be fine.

Hog, or boar, I don't know how American call the selvatic swine.

Pappardelle with boar ragù are delicious.