Text 927, 43 rader
Skriven 2008-01-18 20:22:30 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
    Kommentar till text 842 av Dale Shipp (1:261/1466.0)
Ärende: good local food
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Hi Dale,

 RH> Some of our relatives like it too.  Had a good laugh on my MIL once
 RH> when we were discussing various Italian restaurants with her--she said
 RH> she alwyas plans to order something different on the menu but then
 RH> always orders spaghetti and meat balls.  OTOH, we like to try different
 RH> things, sometimes coming back to favorites. OG had a lasagne lover's
 RH> special one time when we had to go to El Paso (form Fort Huachuca),

 DS>   At an Italian restaurant, we rarely will order the "standard"
 DS> Italian   dishes of spaghetti, lasagne, etc.   Figure Gail can do that
 DS> quite
 DS>   well at home.   We often get some sort of chicken/cheese/etc dish --
 DS>   perhaps with a side of pasta included.

That's pretty much our thinking too.  Since 99% of the pasta served at
OG or Carrabba's is white, we know what we make at home is better.
Spaghetti at either of those two places--------------Euh!  We did find
that the 4 cheese raviloi at Carrabba's tho are pretty close in taste to
what Steve's mom used to make. They're both white pasta, as was the
cheese tortollini I had today at a place downtown) with local shrimp and
scallops. The sauce of the day was a marinara but Steve said (and I
agree) it was very similar to the picchu pacho sauce at Carrabba's--on
the spicy (but not excessively) side.  Both meals (Steve had a Pine Bark
[Fish] Stew.) came with mini blueberry muffins and a Caesar type salad
that was very good. We pretty much figured out how to do the stew, then
asked our waiter if he could get the recipe.  He basically said "no,
house secret" but on the way out, I picked up a brochure about the
place--and it had the recipe in, pretty much spot on what we had
figured.



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Ruth
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