Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Take a Wok.

Did you ever wonder what to do with leftover spaghetti noodles? One of my favorite ways to use leftover noodles is Spaghetti Carbonara. I first experienced this dish in Naples when we were staying the summer with my late brother Mike. He was stationed there in the Navy and took us to the Officers Club for dinner one night. It was very impressive, they prepared Spaghetti Carbonara table side! The Chef cooked strips of bacon in a large Wok until crisp, he removed the bacon and put in on a paper towel to drain. Then he added a pile of cooked spaghetti and some eggs scrambled with cream. He tossed that around with some freshly grated Parmesan cheese, and fresh ground black pepper. Then when the eggs were just about cooked, he crumbled the bacon and added it back to the pasta in the Wok. He poured it out to a big platter and topped it with more freshly grated Parmesan cheese. I was only 11 and had never had anything fixed table side before, it was quite a show!

1 comment:

mary said...

That sounds like a delicious way to
make carbonara! It must have been impressive and delicious. I just got back from Minnesota--I brought back a dish from the grocery store there called Pork Colorado and served it over homemade spatzle--Very tasty and hardy as we have about a foot of snow and 1 degree.
Definitely time for the hearty food. How did your jalepenos turn out--how are you preserving them?
More soon--Happy Holidays--Mary