Another good recipe

[eve11]

Puttanesca pasta sauce. I used a mixture of black olives and green Spanish olives instead of kalamata, only 1/8c of olive oil, canned diced tomatoes, and also a touch of tabasco sauce & cayenne with the crushed red pepper flakes. Next time maybe I will use just a little less capers, but other than that, it's really good.

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[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

oh, dude, don't use canned tomatoes!!!!!! no, no, no, no , no. the whole point is to use the fresh ones, (rich in antioxidants btw), i recommend roma for rich flavor and easy coarse dicing, and cook them in the pan until they just start to break a bit.

and i HIGHLY recommend fresh basil leaves chopped up, and start it off with garlic and some onion. which was actually the original recipe. start the water while you're chopping so the stuff all gets done at the same time. cook onion till clear, add garlic (keep heat low to avoid the garlic burn), then the tomatoes, then the basil last, just until it wilts, then set it aside until the pasta is done. add butter to the pasta for a wee bit of richness, then toss the sauce on top. BAM. the heat from the pasta sends the smells from the sauce into overtime. sensory overload heaven.

ya gotta love sauce recipes invented by sicilian hookers. puttanesca: loosely translates to quick and dirty, as in, the job description of either the sauce or the maker of said sauce.

i love my ancestors. heh.

[eve11]

ah, I didn't have fresh basil (usually don't). I used a little bit of dried though. Not the same, I know. I don't have an herb garden, so if I want fresh basil I have to buy it, and most of it invariably goes bad before I can use it.

So, no canned tomatoes? Actually I used 2 fresh tomatoes and one can. Next time I will try it just with the fresh ones. I was thinking about using onion as well but I didn't have any!

ya gotta love sauce recipes invented by sicilian hookers. puttanesca: loosely translates to quick and dirty, as in, the job description of either the sauce or the maker of said sauce.

lol, the recipe page said it was named after the "ladies of the night" -- quick and dirty, lol.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

a mix of canned and fresh will work, i suppose, but when it's all roma? mmmmmm.

and the onion is a nice contrasting flavor. not a lot mind you, else it's all oniony, but yeah.

i've never tried olives though. that's a good taste add. i lurve kalamata olives.