Recent content by Fos87

Bread is more popular in the south. My mother is from Sicily and sometimes she prepairs the "pane cunzato". It is hot bread just taken from the oven, with salt, pepper, oil (extra virgin oliva oil, of course). You can add dry pomatos, olives.

There will be a day when also Italy will accept gay marriage. In the meantime, I'm happy for Virginia's people.

My real name is Lucia, that means "who is born in the light". Fos is the ancient greek word for "light" (I don't know what is the word in modern greek) and '87 is my born's year. I choose it several years ago, when I had just began studing ancient greek.

I would prefer lump. I would buy a big house for me and my boyfriend, I would marry him and I would organize a great party. I would buy an house for my brother. I would restructure the library of my city (Carate Brianza, an hole in the foggy Pianura Padana), that is awfull and little. I would...

My Brother told me to be softer, to not be a food nazi. If you want use pasta as a side dish, use the sauce of the main plate: another sauce in the pasta would ruin both. I hope to not have been too huge, but pasta is my first love.

You can call it in the way you prefer, but eating pasta as a side dish you ruin both pasta and the other dish. Listen a suggestion by someone who eats pasta every day since was a child :chef: My spaghetti are really better than my english :lol:

First rule: pasta isn't a side dish. You first eat pasta, then if you want what you call the main dish. There is some recipe where pasta is both the first dish and the the main dish ("piatto unico"), very rich, but real italian pasta is itself a main dish. Said this, you could try a good...

I close with politic, it's better :rofl: Thank you everyone. We have a better food, but I love your wurst and sauerkraut. And also the beer. It's really stereotypical, I know, but it's true. How are you now?

The funny thing is that my Brother talk a perfect english, almost at native level. His only problem is the italian inflection. About my country, I know there is no magic place called "abroad" where everything is perfect, but sometime I would will only go away. Other countries seem a lot more...

I don't know if you have it, but salty ricotta is better than parmesan in this sauce. Don't forget the fresh red pepper, sautéed with the garlic and the anchovies.

I was writing that here it's cold, but I changed my mind.

I don't know what will happen to my country. Pervert stupid politicians, illiteracy, catholic fanaticism, homophobia. There is no job and our parlament is focusen on Berlusconi and his stupid problems: a normal country would have him fired years ago. And after 15 years I can't write yet in a...

We use the sage a lot, as someone said, even if not in tomato sauce. Sage is really good in the saltimbocca. It's good with the butter to season gnocchi, casoncelli and other filled pastas. It's good alone, fried and eaten like an appetizer. It's good to make some spirit. You should trust a...

What program was it? We usually use no sage in tomato sauce: we use basil, or oregano. I found some exception for the gnocchi sauce, but it's not really common. At least, I never found someone who use sage in this way. Sage is really good sauté in butter, to season casoncelli or other filled...

Thank you, I hadn't understood.