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"David Hare-Scott" wrote:

Billy wrote:
In article ,
"David Hare-Scott" wrote:

Billy wrote:
(Orecchiette [Little Ears] With) Zucchini And Tomato

Bel Mondo restaurant, Sydney
Servings: 4 - 6
Preparation Time: 30 minutes

2 Leeks, cleaned and cut into Rounds
2 clove Garlic, minced
2 Or 3 medium zucchini, cut Into 1/2 cm semi-circles
1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
120 grams of tomato sauce (original recipe recommends: 600 g
Tomatoes, ripe, chopped

This substitution could make a huge difference depending on what is
in the tomato sauce.

Oh, I knooow.

Easy Vodka Sauce

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¤ 1/2 cup butter
¤ 1 onion, diced
¤ 1 cup vodka
¤ 2 (28 ounce) cans crushed tomatoes
(Oy, make that 2 lbs of fresh tomatoes :O)
¤ 1 pint heavy cream
Directions
1. In a skillet over medium heat, saute onion in butter until
slightly brown and soft. Pour in vodka and let cook for 10 minutes.
Mix in crushed tomatoes and cook for 30 minutes. Pour in heavy cream
and cook for another 30 minutes.
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like the original said, 1 1/3 lbs tomatoes. I then make adjustments
according to what I'm going to serve it on, i.e. Bolognese Sauce,
Marinara Sauce, Putanesca Sauce, or just plain, puréed tomatoes (I'm
not fussy about skins and seeds.). I'm sure any of these would work
fine with the Orecchiette and Zucchini above, and for soaking up with
bread afterwards. Then all you need is a fresh dinner salad, a bottle
of wine, and interesting dinner guests.

2 tsp of dried parsley (original recipe recommends: 1 Handful
flat-leaf parsley Roughly chopped)

I can see that I should have vetted the recipe first. Use only the
freshest ingredients that you have for best effect, and that goes for
the leeks, garlic, zucchini, and the tomatoes as well.

This substitution is weird. What is the point of dried parsley?

Flavor.

But that's the problem, dried parsley doesn't have any. You could
substitute dried newspaper and you couldn't tell the difference. Parsley
and mint are two herbs that are just not worth using dried.

I'll bow to your superior familiarity, as I've never used dry parsley.
I've had mint tea before, though, made from little paper bags on
strings, and it tasted like mint. I have mint in the garden, but rarely
make tea (tisane) from it, but I do use it, and a quarter of a lemon to
flavor the drinking water that I take to work.


1 dash pepper
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200 grams of whole wheat orrecchiete or other short pasta
1 tsp sea salt

I was shown how to cook by a Frenchman who, strangely enough, thought
that cooking with salt was a crutch, and that properly seasoned, most
meals didn't require salt. We never have salt on the table, and rarely
use it in the kitchen (usually to sweat cucumbers).

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Grated Parmesan or pecorino to taste (30 grams)


Fry the leeks, garlic and zucchini in the olive oil for half a
minute. Add the tomatoes and simmer for 8-10 minutes.

Meanwhile, fill a large pot with water and bring to the boil, add
the pasta and cook until al dente.

Add the parsley to the tomato mixture and season.
Toss it with the cooked and drained pasta and serve with the grated
cheese.

Any pasta left over is perfect for lunch the next day.

Buuuuuuurp! Yep ;O)

Sounds excellent.

Aren't you going to translate from those gram thingies to real
measurements though?

150 grams + 454 grams (600 grams) is approximately 1 1/3 lbs or
0.094483827 stone.

454 grams = 1 lb, or 0.071428571 stone. I mean, why use 454 grams, or
0.071428571 stone, when you can just use 1 pound?

English Measure is really very simple
It is 5,280 ft. to the mile, not that complicated 1000 meters to a
kilometer. I might also mention that a mile is bigger than that puny
little kilometer (We'er number one!). I mean, if you wanted to know
how many feet in 4 miles, it is obvious that it is 21,120 feet, where
as, if you wanted to know haw many meters there were in 4 kilometers,
not everyone would come up with the number 4000!

A meter is 100 centimeters, about 40 inches, or 1 yard, 4 inches.
Yards are very simple to use with 3 feet to the yard, and 12 inches to
the foot, and the inch is divided, for your easy use, into 8/8ths of
an inch.

It gets even worse ;O) 1 gram of water, is essentially 1 milliliter of
water under normal room conditions (Yes, confusing, I know.). If you
have a a 1000 grams of water (1 kilogram), you have a 1000 milliliters
of water, which is to say, a liter. The horror of 2 ideas in your mind
at the same time. Mon dieu, it can be a real nightmare.

:-)


It's all very confusing when you're used to 16 ounces to a pint, and 2
pints to a quart, and 4 quarts to a gallon which is 0.13368056 cubic
feet, here in the U.S.


But you forgot to mention that a quart of water is about 936 mls but a quart
of beans is about 1101 mls. How stupid that the metric system cannot
measure beans, just as well that NASA doesn't power its rockets with gas,
they might never reach orbit.

I didn't forget. I was ignorant of the fact that when a liquid quart
dries out, it expands. Very interesting. I'll look at the Standard Model
and see if I can find an explanation for it.

I just don't see how the metric system will ever catch on.

That's what they say in Myanmar and Liberia too.

Myanmar is on its own, but Liberia is obviously our fault.

It is very easy to use the metric system as you and both know but it is the
conversion that is the problem; it requires will, legislation and funding
all of which are conspicuously absent in the redoubts of traditional
measure. Give it 20-30 years and the Chinese will probably force it on the
USA.
Never underestimate American stupidity!

It is embarrassing that the most lowly undocumented worker who slips
into the U.S. is schooled in the world's measurement system, whereas
most educated USians are totally ignorant of it.

David
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