Enough politics, it’s time for something important -- favourite pasta sauce!

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**Kilkrazy**

My favourites:

Puttanesca -- piquant
Limone -- refreshing
Arrabiata -- spicy
Amatriciana -- luxurious
Bolognese -- solid and comforting

**Mr. Burning**

Ah,

The old 'favourite pasta sauce' thread.

Arrabiata - Love it, especially if it is all heat and little acidity - best I ever had was in Florence.

Carbonara - A little gem of a sauce.

**Chowderhead**

I prefer some nice pesto. Tastes great with chicken and sausage.

**Flashman**

Bella Italia (UK chain restaurant) do a really nice dish called Penne Marco Polo. It has sweet plum flavoured sauce and I order it everytime we go there.

**Mr. Burning**

Flashman wrote:Bella Italia (UK chain restaurant) do a really nice dish called Penne Marco Polo. It has sweet plum flavoured sauce and I order it everytime we go there.

Bella Italia- I shudder when I hear that name, All I shall say is what I consumed there, came out very rapidly.

**Kilkrazy**

You had bad luck. It can happen anywhere.

A pal and I got food poisoning in Luigi's Bar in Soho, from the meatballs.

**Monster Rain**

I think that a perfect Alfredo sauce is pretty much the greatest thing on earth.

Bolognese is a very close second, though.

**squilverine**

Give me Penne alla Arrabiata!

**dogma**

Vodka sauce.

**rubiksnoob**

Monster Rain wrote:I think that a perfect Alfredo sauce is pretty much the greatest thing on earth.

The is great wisdom in these words. I second this!

**Chongara**

Just a little oil for me and/or cheese for me thanks, maybe a bit of herbage or the like for extra flavor if I'm feelin' fancy.

**kronk**

Alfredo sauce with some garlic bread to dip in it.

**Asherian Command**

hmmm.
Red wine + meat sauce + onion + tomatoes = epic win

**Howard A Treesong**

Mr. Burning wrote:
Carbonara - A little gem of a sauce.

Try making it with chorizo instead of ham, it's great, the creamy sauce goes orange and it very rich.

We have an italian restaurant in town here, 'established in 1982' it has written above the door. And you go in and you'd swear it was 1982. You know the Italian place the police go to in 'Ashes to Ashes', it's just like that. Kitsch candle holders, chequered table cloths, textured wallpaper to make it look like you're in a villa, faux wood panelling, menus the size of a broadsheet newspaper.

**Mr Mystery**

I'll have the Pizza please.

Or a Carbonara if I must.

**WarOne**

I will not taste any sauce that either a Democrat or Republican has ever tasted.

It would give too much hint as to what political party I favor.

**Albatross**

Nah, but I DO like a good arrabiata, and you can't really go wrong with a bit of bolognese. I actually make a pretty good ragu. I worked with a guy from Napoli who gave me some very handy pointers.

**Perkustin**

Rite, Boil the kettle, put spurgetty in a pan cover the bottom half of the pasta bunch with oil a generous amount of salt and boil for 8 mins. Microwave some bacon and mix some eggs with milk and cheese. Drain cooked spurgetty put back on heat add a bit o'butter and the egg mix and bacon chunks. Mix until eggs just start to scramble.. done... Takes about fifteen minutes if you're good like me....

**Albatross**

Hope you cook better than you spell, mate.

If only for your diners' sakes.

**avantgarde**

Does ketchup count?

**ChrisWWII**

Alfredo, pesto.....but carbonara takes the cake. That stuff is addictive.

**dogma**

Albatross wrote:

At least get the on-brand stuff.

**Albatross**

Do they come in 57 varieties?

**LunaHound**

I think favorite "noodle" or noodle sauce will be better as there are so many tasty choices out there

**Albatross**

Cool. Start a thread on it then. This one's about pasta.

**dogma**

Albatross wrote:Do they come in 57 varieties?

As far as I know, the only other flavor is meatball.

**halonachos**

Alfredo or marinara. Boring yes, but my favorite.

**Orkeosaurus**

dogma wrote:
Albatross wrote:Do they come in 57 varieties?

As far as I know, the only other flavor is meatball.

There's also hot dog slices.

**FITZZ**

I'm honestly not sure what my "favorite" pasta sauce would be called ,as it's a recipe I got from my Great Grandmother many years ago,and still can't come close to making it the way she did.

Basicly,the primary ingredients are beef,veal and sweet and hot pork,tomatoes paste and fresh tomatoes,onion,garlic,a bit of green pepper and some red whine...all slow cooked for several hours.

**Monster Rain**

Sounds like a bolognese variant to me.

I'll have to try it.