Comments on: The Italian Art of Living

The Italian Art of Living

netbros — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:25:40 -0800

Sit back and enjoy the many Italian recipes Great Chicago Italian Recipes.com has to offer. This site will provide you with a culinary adventure into the world of Italian food and wine. Choose from poultry, beef, vegetables, pasta, and sooo much more. Looking to finish off that perfect meal? Try Adriana's Italian Gourmet Cookies.

At Italian Food Forever they're featuring How to Make Pici Step by Step and Orange Pistachio Biscotti. Mangia Bene.

By: ignignokt

ignignokt — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:02:09 -0800

I was excited to see the Italian beef recipe, until this: Slice beef thin on a meat slicer. If you don't have a slicer, get one. Well, maybe another time.

By: JABof72

JABof72 — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:12:12 -0800

Thanks for this. I looked at a few recipes; the Rigatoni w/ Sausage Cream Sauce even had a recipe for the sausage (bulk). Bookmarked.

By: filthy light thief

filthy light thief — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:13:19 -0800

Chowhound forum suggestions on thin-slicing beef.

By: msconduct

msconduct — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:20:07 -0800

i might have to have a dinner party!

By: L'OM

L'OM — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:33:03 -0800

RE 1st link: He calls tomato sauce "gravy". Go straight to Italian Food Forever. That's real Italian cooking.

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:58:29 -0800

I have an unbearable craving for pignoli cookies right now.

By: quadrilaterals

quadrilaterals — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:03:57 -0800

No beef recipe is complete without a recipe for giardiniera. (That recipe is the result of googling; my family has our own recipe, thank you very much.)

By: nathancaswell

nathancaswell — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:09:35 -0800

Great Chicago Italian Recipes "The Italian Art of Living" You know, people's constant need to define what they do as "the art of" is really fucking annoying. "The art of fabric stain removal." "The art of VCR repair." The art of living? Seriously?

By: kitchenrat

kitchenrat — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:13:15 -0800

gravy and sauce are synonyms and interchangeable. i know several old school italian chefs that call their sauces gravy. i would defend the chicago site as it offers many straight-forward dishes that are within the skills of non-professional cooks. as a professional chef, i have bookmarked a few of them myself.

By: kitchenrat

kitchenrat — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:16:03 -0800

umm, nathan, you haven't been to italy, have you?

By: nathancaswell

nathancaswell — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:19:43 -0800

i like to sleep and i'm very fucking good at it... that doesn't mean im gonna start a blog called "the art of sleeping"

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:46:02 -0800

RE 1st link: He calls tomato sauce "gravy". Gravy is what Italian grandmothers make on Sunday. Thanks for these links. I do a lot of the cooking in the ozzy household, and I do it mostly by feel, these days, but it's nice to see recipes for ideas of which sorts of things might go together nicely. The mrs does most of the baking (the sweet sort, anyway), and she's been on a biscotti kick since Christmastime. And I would really enjoy these biscotti.

By: piratebowling

piratebowling — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:49:51 -0800

RE 1st link: He calls tomato sauce "gravy". Yeah, fuck that noise...they'll also call any shape pasta "macaroni." Do they not know what words MEAN? /sarcasm

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:27:44 -0800

What pairs with Schlitz?

By: inigo2

inigo2 — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:49:22 -0800

What pairs with Schlitz? Everything.