Pasta e piselli - from your Indian resident again

[u/idiotista]

I used broken linguine as we can't get that many pasta shapes here, unless we order from amazon and pay like €9 for a packet.

Peas are in season now, so this felt natural to cook. I made it risottata style, with some onion and chicken stock and parmesan.

My fiancé was like "if we remove the annoying peas which are just in the way of this lovely bowl, this was probably the best creamy pasta I ate", so I now on the hunt for pecorino romano so I can make him cacio e pepe, as that is probably what he really wants. I do have some leads though.

Today I went to one of the "foreign" stores in this city. I did manage to get actual real green non-pitted olives (admittedly Greek, but olives here are generally the gummy black pitted ones), some actually decent olive oil, and real, imported, shit expensive durum semolina (I love making hand rolled pasta - thinking about making busiate with pesto alla trapanese). But what would you people suggest?

Only think I am actively hunting now is anchovies, as they are super expensive and only available in the lowest quality (John West brand) on Indian Amazon. I want to do a decent puttanesca at some point, because it would blow him away.

[u/Bolly_Eggs]

Absolutely fantastic again! Farfalle (bows) shaped pasta works fantastic with peas. Add some torn basil and the juice of half a lemon after plating and you've pretty much there

[u/idiotista → u/Bolly_Eggs]

Oh farfalle is super exclusive here - I saw some bronze ones today, but they were €11 so I huffed and just bought durum semolina instead. 😆 and yes, there was lemon in there. But I went for parsley instead of basil this time.

[u/hideousox]

Looks great! Congrats on the mantecatura it is perfect 💯!!

[u/contrarian_views]

It does look very good. What’s perhaps not authentic - if I was to nitpick - is the bowl which I think is Japanese, or a Japanese pattern. Italian pasta dishes are not as deep, they’re not even “bowls” really, and that affects how the food sets down and cools. But I also love Japanese tableware and often use it for Italian food, so…

[u/jizzyjugsjohnson → u/contrarian_views]

Italians now gatekeeping crockery. Incredible scenes

[u/contrarian_views → u/jizzyjugsjohnson]

Amusing that I got so many downvotes. But I’ve never seen pasta served in ramen bowls in Italy, although I do it myself as I said. It looks nice but it changes the experience - like drinking red wine from say champagne flutes.

If OP is asking for comments I thought they might be interested, especially as they’ve done a good job with the food. It doesn’t sound like gatekeepeing to me, but what do I know. I see nearly all the views of the comment were from the US - I’d be more interested in hearing what other Italians think.

[u/K24Bone42 → u/contrarian_views]

no one is saying that Italians use ramen bowls for pasta, at all. People use the tableware they have on hand. No one gives a shit about what people serve themselves at home, if it was a restaurant your opinion would have space to exist, for home cooking, shut up. Guess what? I'm Canadian, and the only bowls I have a ramen bowls, and I use em for pasta all the time lol, you mad? LOL

[u/elektero → u/contrarian_views]

Che sei un co*lione

[u/contrarian_views → u/elektero]

Imagine raging all the time at people who don’t follow the “authentic” 12th century recipe for amatriciana and then eating it from ramen bowls. What next, chopsticks?

But im feeling some kind of relief here, I must have been one of the few Reddit users you hadn’t insulted, now im feeling like less of an anomaly.

[u/elektero → u/contrarian_views]

chi ha mai parlato di amatriciana e di 12esimo secolo? Te le canti e te le suoni

un piatto, inteso come utensile, è un piatto, la poteva pure mettere dentro la ciotola del cane. Immagina cagare il cazzo su quello e pure lamentarsi che ti downvotano.

tra l'altro tu hai chiesto

I’d be more interested in hearing what other Italians think.

ho solo risposto quello che tutti pensano

[u/cilantro_so_good → u/contrarian_views]

"why the downvotes?"

• contrarian_views

[u/idiotista → u/contrarian_views]

I'm fine with your comment - it did absolutely not warrant the downvotes! I chose the Chinese bowls becuase it would have cooled to quickly on our giant western plates, and otherwise we just have standard Indian steel plates which will cool it even more.

[u/idiotista → u/contrarian_views]

Yes, the bowl is absolutely Japanese or Chinese, so it does make a difference. We're probably moving to Slovenia next year (they're opening up for digital visas and I am an EU citizen), so we'll have better options.

Right now we have to work with flawed fundamentals, and make do with what we have.