I tried, believe me: I tried. But I couldn’t find any other pasta recipe as quick as this… The cooking is kept to the bare necessities: 10 to 12 minutes. I mean: you can’t expect to eat raw hard spaghetti! Do you? So, no excuse: even the laziest of you, readers, can challenge themselves into […]
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Amatriciana or Matriciana? The origins of a legend
Published on November 3, 2013 | in Bucatini, Classics, Dry Pasta, Pasta, Spaghetti By Marco | 0 Comments
What is it called? Amatriciana? or Matriciana? Well, this is another of those culinary-slash-etymological Italian domestic feuds that divide the country. And the closer you get to the Latium boundary lines the more oversensitive people are about this matter. So, how to behave when there’s no chance of guessing on which side of the barricade […]

Spaghetti “Aglio, olio e peperoncino”
“Garlic, oil and chili pepper” spaghetti
This is my very first post ever. And I couldn’t start with a better recipe than this: spaghetti aglio, olio e peperoncino. This is one of the simplest and most genuine italian dishes. It’s very cheap: ingredients are easy to buy in any supermarket, and they are usually always available in any italian kitchen. It’s […]