what is your favorite Italian meal? I like lasagna, but instead of using noodles, we use zucchini.

[debm55]

Have any favorites?

[MiHale]

1. 60 percent of our meals are Italian...

Favorites? Name a dish I’ll bet you guessed it!

[debm55]

2. Do you make the ricotta pie? I forget the name for it?

[MiHale]

9. Wife bakes, I make the sauces...

Soups, pasta, sausages. I cook the meals. Ricotta pie? Don’t know that one.

[debm55]

19. I had it once and it was wonderful

[Botany]

3. Aglio e olio* and linguine with white clam sauce

Some nice Italian bread to get the juices too.

* I still can't make it as good as one restaurant in N.E. OH.

[Turbineguy]

5. My favorite too.

[debm55]

20. I iove clam sauce.Not a fan on chicken alfredo

[hlthe2b]

4. Fettucini with scallops in "red sauce" (marinara)

If I were doing an at most once-a-year splurge it would be Fruitti di Mare (classic Italian fettuccini marinara dish with scallops, mussels, shrimp, and clams-- but I skip the squid).... Expensive--especially in restaurants, but delicious.

.webp

[debm55]

21. Oh my, that looks great. My mouth is watering. I would skip the squid too. Same with calamari

[debm55]

22. Oh my, that looks great. My mouth is watering. I would skip the squid too. Same with calamari

[Lunabell]

6. I once had a grouper piccata at an Italian restaurant that was to die for!

I love anything piccata.

[debm55]

23. That sounds wounderful

[rsdsharp]

7. I guess it's more like Sicilian/American,

but I love cioppino.

[debm55]

24. I'm not sure what that is?

[rsdsharp]

31. It's sort of like bouillabaisse. It's a seafood soup/stew with a tomato base.

The legend is that it was started in San Francisco. If a fisherman (like Joe DiMaggio’s father) had a poor catch, others would chip in bits from their haul so the other guy’s family could eat. It usually has mussels, crab, shrimp and some kind of white fish. The base has tomatoes, onions, garlic, fish stock, and white wine.

[debm55]

32. Sounds good. Do you make it?

[rsdsharp]

33. I have made it, but the middle of Iowa is a better place for steak than fresh seafood.

The first time I had it was at Alioto’s on Fisherman’s Wharf. It was delicious, but I’m not sure the thick, white napkin ever recovered.

[Diamond_Dog]

8. There is an Italian restaurant in my area that makes a chicken parm that is to die for.

My family likes most anything Italian. 🙂

[debm55]

25. I like the eggplant parm. We also have a little Italian restaurant. So much better then Olive garden

[Sneederbunk]

10. Any pasta with arrabiata sauce.

[debm55]

11. I like pasta with chicken and vodka sauce.

[liberalla]

14. Me too! Also Fra Diavolo is another yummy spicy sauce with seafood.

I like BIG flavors.

Another one is puttanesca. It's fun to make and so colorful... You eat with your eyes first, you know!
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Ok, ok, I like soft and subtle sauces, too. Just not my first choice.
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[debm55]

26. I like that saying--eat with your eyes first.

[IcyPeas]

17. me too. usually De Cecco fusilli (or ziti) with Rao's arrabiata sauce.

p.s. I hate that I love this sauce.....

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[Ninga]

12. Homemade Ricotta Gnocchi with marinara,

Italian sausage roasted with fennel, onions and oranges

[fierywoman]

13. My neighbor Maria in Venice made gnocchi that were as light as clouds.

We usually ate them with her homemade ragu. Da morire!

[debm55]

27. When I tried to make my own, it was the first time husband didn't ask for seconds--knew it was bad

[fierywoman]

34. She showed me how to do it once. I think she used about a kilo of floury potatoes plus

what she called "an american potato" (= sweet potato). She was VERY rigorous about not using too much flour to make the dough hang together, and very few eggs. She taught me how to roll them out (an S-shaped swoop across the back of a Parmesan cheese grater) -- when we ate them with another neighbor, he looked at the plate and pointed out (giggling) the mis-shapened ones I'd rolled out.

Clouds, I tell you, clouds. AKA "cucina povera."

[eppur_se_muova]

15. Good old fettucine alfredo -- I'm a sucker for creamy sauces.

I take broccoli and mushrooms w/mine; add chicken for Mom.

[debm55]

28. Ah, northern Italian. I like the red.

[CanonRay]

16. Family specialty is Ravioli

I get it on my birthday and at Christmas.

[debm55]

29. What do you like it stuffed with. I just like ricotta and spices

[CanonRay]

35. We have a somewhat unusual mix

chopped spinach, parmesan, and breakfast sausage. We use breakfast sausage because it is finer grind than the Italian sausage we can get. We put in our own oregano, fennel, salt, etc. My wife learned to make it from my mother, who learned it from my grandmother who was born in Sicily.

[randr]

18. Recently I started a new way to make lasagna

Instead of the lasagna pasta noodles try using layers of ravioli.
I like to use assorted cheese ravioli, the the usual layers of sauce, cheeses, and spicy sausage.

[debm55]

30. Thats a neat idea. I'll have to give it a try