[Red Badger]

PASTA mañana!.................

[Yo-Yo]

[Sacajaweau]

Haven’t made sauce from scratch in a long time....with all the trimmings...like braciole and meatballs. I use pork but now instead of sausage and make a little spice bag using the sausage spices.

[Sacajaweau]

I’m dreaming of homemade spaghetti...it’s been years and years...but I might just do it since I’m retired and bored.

[Leaning Right]

> National Spaghetti Day <

That reminds me. I’ve got to go out and apply some winter fertilizer to my spaghetti trees.

[Larry Lucido]

[COBOL2Java]

American restaurants offered spaghetti around the end of the 19th century as Spaghetti Italienne (which is believed to have consisted of noodles cooked past al dente and a mild tomato sauce flavored with easily found spices and vegetables such as cloves, bay leaves, and garlic). Decades later, cooks added oregano and basil to many recipes.

After retiring from the Navy, my brother settled in Norfolk (naturally for a sailor I imagine). He'd comment how the natives would cook the heck out of their pasta (no "al Dente" over there!). I remember having spaghetti dinner with him at a Norfolk restaurant, and noticing that the pasta was VERY soft and mushy. My brother joked that one time, he cooked a plate of spaghetti for his local friends more like the way we'd have it growing up in New York (much firmer). His friends commented that while the dish was good, the pasta was "RAW!".

[Larry Lucido]

[RayChuang88]

Here’s one major issue for eating spaghetti Italian style if you’re from the USA: eaters will experience shock from the totally different style of sauce the Italians use.

[moovova]

One of the reasons I liked the Godfather so much...the food.

[moovova]

[AppyPappy]

The secret to good red gravy: Anchovies. Fry some in some olive oil until they render out before you add everything else. Anchovy paste works as well.

[twister881]

Biden’s brain is the spokes-organ for National Spaghetti Day. “Hey, where the young girls at?”

[mykroar]

Now this is a day I can get behind.

[FamiliarFace]

Well, we succumbed. We used our leftover smoked chicken and added it to our Carfagna’s marinara sauce, I sautéed zucchini, onion, and tomatoes as a side. Added lots and lots of finely grated Parmesan. So spaghetti night, with a twist!😁

Tomorrow it doesn’t matter what national day it is. I will be making creamy chicken with mushrooms, garlic, and wine sauce over noodles, with green beans almondine as a side. Only because I promised a friend who is looking for a nice homemade meal so I can help her out.. She had surgery before Christmas and needs a helping hand. What are friends for if not a nice meal? Hope she and her husband enjoy it!