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To: Gabz

Another anchovy favorite is spaghetti putanesca. You can find it occasionally in Italian restaurants. Lots of salty anchovies and olives. Lots of garlic, too, along with chopped tomatoes and capers.

Again, it's not to everyone's taste, for sure, but it's authentic Italian cuisine, invented by prostitutes as a cheap pasta dish, hence the "putanesca" name.

I order it whenever I find it on the menu, but never make it myself, since nobody else in my household or among my friends will touch it.

There are a number of good recipes on the web for it, though, and there are lots of variations.


82 posted on 08/15/2006 1:14:11 PM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: MineralMan

I love putanesca. Thankfully everyone in my house also loves it, because good Italian restaurants do NOT exist where we live.

I had some leftover pasta shells one day last week, they just had butter, parmesan, and garlic on them, so I added chopped ham, cheddar cheese, capers, calvatos olives, and italian dressing.......it was great. I'm thinking about making it for dinner one night this week, and plan on adding anchovies to it.


96 posted on 08/15/2006 1:22:53 PM PDT by Gabz (Taxaholism, the disease you elect to have (TY xcamel))
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