Comments on: Scratch pasta and sauce http://kanga.nu/~claw/blog/2008/07/13/food/scratch-pasta-and-sauce/ Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:58:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: J C Lawrence http://kanga.nu/~claw/blog/2008/07/13/food/scratch-pasta-and-sauce/comment-page-1/#comment-42 J C Lawrence Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:17:31 +0000 http://kanga.nu/~claw/blog/?p=186#comment-42 <p>Thank you for the kind words. My cooking tends mostly toward <em>get really good ingredients and put them together in simple and tasty ways</em> rather than any sort of multi-pot kitchen-crowding complexity. Most of the time I only use one pan and a cutting board. But, I do like to eat well and cooking is a great way of getting the best food!</p> <p>Yes, far too many pastas are served over-cooked and soggy, even in otherwise good restaurants. One restaurant near me even goes so far as to print a warning in their menu that some may consider their pasta under-cooked. For shame! It really isn't hard to get it right and if you use whole wheat pasta as I often do (my body doesn't handle refined starch well) al dente also helps bring out the nutty flavour of the grain.</p> Thank you for the kind words. My cooking tends mostly toward get really good ingredients and put them together in simple and tasty ways rather than any sort of multi-pot kitchen-crowding complexity. Most of the time I only use one pan and a cutting board. But, I do like to eat well and cooking is a great way of getting the best food!

Yes, far too many pastas are served over-cooked and soggy, even in otherwise good restaurants. One restaurant near me even goes so far as to print a warning in their menu that some may consider their pasta under-cooked. For shame! It really isn’t hard to get it right and if you use whole wheat pasta as I often do (my body doesn’t handle refined starch well) al dente also helps bring out the nutty flavour of the grain.

]]> By: Iago71 http://kanga.nu/~claw/blog/2008/07/13/food/scratch-pasta-and-sauce/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Iago71 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:37:00 +0000 http://kanga.nu/~claw/blog/?p=186#comment-41 <p>Wow, you seem to cook well, not only think well...</p> <p>Compliments from Italy to your games analysis, to you game ideas and to your cooking skills...</p> <p>I particularly appreciated the "al dente" suggestion, as abroad it's a strange and mostly overlooked concept. 8-)</p> <p>Lucio Pierobon Padua, Italy</p> Wow, you seem to cook well, not only think well…

Compliments from Italy to your games analysis, to you game ideas and to your cooking skills…

I particularly appreciated the “al dente” suggestion, as abroad it’s a strange and mostly overlooked concept. 8-)

Lucio Pierobon Padua, Italy

]]>