What is your favorite Italian meal?

[newyawker99]

Mine is lasagna. :9

[U of M Dem 07]

1. Fettuccine alfredo

with tiramisu for dessert.

I love food threads :)

[newyawker99]

31. Hi U of M Dem 07!

Sound like a good meal to me.


Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[THUNDER HANDS]

2. pene ala vodka

Mmmmmm

[newyawker99]

32. Yummm!!!

:-)

[a_random_joel]

3. Shrimp Scampi...

[newyawker99]

33. Shrimp Scampi.....

I'll have some of that! :-)

[bhunt70]

my second favorite is chicken parmesian.

[bigwillq]

4. Spaghetti and meatballs

Prepared by my mommy or my nonni. But my mom's meatballs are better cause she fries them and they get all hard and burnt, just the way I like them. Plus their sauce is home made and out of this world.

[bubblesby2002]

5. You are for sure making my mouth water

cuz that's my favourite too. You must be Italian - you used nonni for grandma. ciao

[bhunt70]

8. are you italian?

I only ask because in the past month I've talked to two other people at work and both have said their moms sauce was the best (both italian also). "You haven't had sauce until you had my mom's sauce" I think were the words of one.

hehe

[bigwillq]

17. My mom's side is Italian

My nonni is her mother and yes they both make the best sauce I've ever eaten. I don't like to eat Italian food at Italian resturants b/c it's just not the same except this one place in NYC that was great but I guess not that great b/c I don't remember the name of it. It was in Greenwich Village.

[gyopsy]

6. Raveolli

It's usually quite good.

[NewHampster]

7. Fettucini Abruzzi

Fettucini with peppers and sausage and spicy sauce

[Mr. McD]

9. Defiantly lasagna,

but only if I make it. I have never had any I liked better in a restaurant.:)

[Cuban_Liberal]

10. Spaghetti a la carbonara

*drool* :)

[Jack_Dawson]

11. Lasagna! That's a slam-dunk

[Whitacre D_WI]

12. Depends what you mean by "Italian."

I love German food, so there's lots from Northeastern Italy I dig.

For seafood, one can hardly beat Apulian or Sicilian food.

Then, of course, there's the swine around Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany.

Well, I make a damn fine black truffle risotto, I also make a killer ragu Bolognese. The Neapolitan pizza at Piccola in Wauwatosa, WI can hardly be beat.

All the foods I've mentioned come from vastly different culinary traditions, so it's really hard to say what my favorite Italian meal is.

[Insider]

13. crostacci or crustacce

this little italian restaurant here uses fresh seafood. lobster, jumbo shrimp and lump crabmeat in a cream/marinara sauce over homemade pasta. it is priecy (for me), but it is to DIE for.

favorite otherwise is shrimp scampi.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

14. Gnocchi with Pesto

:P

[FarLeftRage]

15. Buona Sera!

Il mio alimento italiano favorito è alfredo di tortellini.
(My favorite is tortellini in afredo sauce)

Devo esercitarsi nel mio italiano, perché sto andando in Italia l'anno prossimo.

Arrivederci NY99! :hi:

[newyawker99]

34. Hi FLR!!

:hi:

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

16. My favorite is a pantry pasta dish

Saute fresh garlic and red pepper seeds in olive oil. Add tunafish, chopped artichoke hearts and capers. Mix with pasta, top with lots of fresh parmesan. I love this dish!

[Baclava]

18. Sophia

(But we just call her Sofie)

[Rowdyboy]

19. Osso buco

I've only had it twice but it was unforgettable.

[burrowowl]

25. Where

you are aperson of taste.

[SarahB]

20. Eggplant Parmesan

:P

[Nile]

36. Eggplant for me also.

An eggplant sub with mushrooms an onion sounds good right now.

[RebelOne]

37. My favorite, too.

[Racenut20]

21. veal parmesian with spaghetti

[maveric]

27. I too eat the poor baby cows who are held in pens.....

Sorry PETA fans, I LOVE veal!!!!
My italian grandma made it the best. Boy do I miss her.

[burrowowl]

28. You can't get real veal in the U$

and you probably would not like it. Be it baby veal or pig, there is a slight taste of baby puck to those in the know. Veal here is 1 year-old and is been grain feed. Real veal is killed because one wants the milk and the baby (especially males, like roosters can't have to many of them or they are castrated to become steers for regular beef eating) is prevented from taking the milk, but we have artificial means to raise them upto to a year and to be sold as 'veal' (BTW in the bible the fattened calf was milk fed from its mother until slaughtered).
Humans are omnivores, in th U$ we eat too much meat, meat was a rarity and a feast.

[nemo137]

22. Lasagna or gnocchi.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

23. Saltimboca

or lasagne or any pasta with a cream sundried tomato sauce.

There's also kind of a spicy beef stew, but I forget what it's called.

[burrowowl]

24. Osso buco

and it is hard to find in the U$, in France all the Italian Restaurants had it.

[woofless]

26. Chick peas and macaroni

like Mama Villarose used to make. How did she do that?

[DemOverseas]

29. Pasta And Beans

This is my husband's favorite and he coud eat it each and every day. I use chick peas and bertolini beans. My favorite is Roasted Red Pepper Sauce. It is so delicious. Right now we are coming to the end of Broccoli Rabe season. If you haven't tasted this bitter broccoli run out and buy some soon. The trick is to eat in season. It tastes so much better. ALso, Italian food in Sicily is NOT like Italian food in the USA. Something about fresh and no chemicals in the stuff.

[Pert_UK]

30. Carpaccio of beef.......mmmmmmmmm..........raw..........

Drool......

Or just a big lump of dolcelatte.

P.

[newyawker99]

35. OK guys!

I will have to make pasta for dinner tonight! :-)

[gottaB]

38. esspresso

triple espresso

but all this talk, mmm, I'm going to make alfredo for dinner

[GOPisEvil]

39. Simple pasta tossed with butter and sage.

Or, pasta with vodka cream sauce. :9