Why Italy

Italian food- do you like it, and what is your favourite recipe?

If you have a really delicious and preferably simple, recipe please let me know?

Public Comments

1. I love carpaccio. Thinly sliced fillet of beef (raw) easier to slice when frozen, spread out on a plate. Sprinkle olive oil on top, parmesan shavings and fresh basil. Season with salt and pepper! Use the best fillet steak you can find....
2. I LOVE IT!! Yum yum in my tum!! WHat you should do is go to Tesco and look at their Tesco Finest range. It has some unbelievably gorgeous Italian food. What you could do is cheat, and pretend that you have cooked it. Good luck.
3. love it..if i lived in italy i would be a big fat italian momma..my own favourite is lasagne.
4. It's all much of a muchness. Prefer Indian and Chinese.
5. LOVE IT!. spag bol, lasagne, cannelloni, pizza all I can think of off the top of my head.
6. lasnage beef or veg one.yum or spaghetti bowl, plain cheese and tom pizza. i love 5 cheese one as well. pizza hut yum
7. it tastes of wet cardboard,yukky slop!
8. Not keen on it really but it might be fun cooking up something together!
9. love it! i make a great yet so simple and fresh garlic and basil spaghetti,cook your spaghetti,in a pan fry a little garlic,onion,mushroom and smoked bacon or pancetta in olive oil,stir into the cooked pasta,throw in some fresh basil,grated parmesan and drizzle with extra virgin olive oil..oh dont forget salt n pepper!
10. I love Italian cuisine, by far it is my favorite of all. I make my own sauce from scratch and it is so much better than any of that stuff you can get in a jar. 3 large cans tomato puree 1 can tomato paste 6 cloves of garlic, minced 1 medium onion, chopped 1T olive oil 3 T salt Pepper to taste 3 T sugar 3 cups water 1 cup red wine 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese Saute onion and garlic in olive oil in large sauce pot until onion is translucent. Add remaining ingredients, stir together and simmer over low heat 1 to 2 hours. I use this sauce as a base for lasagna, stuffed shells, baked ziti, spaghetti or whatever I have on hand. It's so easy and so good you won't ever buy another can of sauce. The recipe above make quite a bit so I usually put the remainder in a ziplock and throw it in the freezer for a good quick dinner later on in the week.
11. I do like their food, but like everyone else I can't make it and I certainly don't know their ingredients! My advice would be to go to a Trettoria on the Adriatic coast, order everything on the menu and send it back home for analysis! p.s I don't know how to spell Trettoria!
12. Pasta, Pizza, Ressatti and any fish item like Tuna,Salmon