What exactly is puttanesca about it? I've lived a sheltered life.
Wikipedia sez leaving out the anchovies is OK in some regions, so never mind. Though certainly you need a ton of garlic, at least.
2: Quick to make, and no ingredients that aren't pantry staples. Ideal for the busy career woman on the go.
I'm not sure how eating tons of garlic would provide a professional advantage to the type of career woman we're talking about here.
In terms of comfort food, I think I'm going to quickly start braising season. And maybe do a lobster in the near future with the nice Mersault that I've been saving up for a couple years as a way of shutting out unpleasant realities.
Me(u)rsault: no Stranger to shutting out unpleasant realities.
Anchovies: slatterns of the deep.
Wikipedia sez leaving out the anchovies is OK in some regions
Yeah, but Wikipedia says a lot of stupid shit.
I'm not sure how eating tons of garlic would provide a professional advantage to the type of career woman we're talking about here.
Apparently if you eat enough of the stuff your body sort of adjusts to it and you stop smelling of it. But you have to be seriously committed over a long time - like, several heads a day. Maybe you'd have to offer discounts while you were getting in shape.
12: It's from Naples. Everybody was eating a ton of garlic and nobody could smell it on anybody else.
like, several heads a day.
Oh, look, somebody left a bunch garlic sitting here on top of this low-hanging fruit!
I'm thinking it's humorless of me to note, but I suspect fresh breath was not high on the qualifications for employment as a whore in a state-run whorehouse.
15: Sure, push for privatized whorehouses you libertarian minty-fresh breath pusher.
15: No doubt a problem easily fixed by a writ of Certs™iorari.
The girls in the whorehouse George Clooney visits in the The American look like they smell very nice indeed. (Also, why isn't my name Violante Placido?)
I'm struck by the names of Asian countries in the post, IYKWIM.
I'm mostly struck, though, by how easy it is to put a comment on the wrong thread.
Also, why isn't my name Violante Placido?
Because you haven't been at the trouble or expense of legally changing it?
21: No, no. The name is only wonderful if one comes by it honestly.
It's apparently the Italian version of "Yolanda," which, I mean, really. No comparison.
Relatedly, the restaurant was, as usual, half full of prostitutes.
Management consultants, or streetwalkers?
The girls in the whorehouse George Clooney visits in the The American look like they smell very nice indeed.
My thought process reading this: "I don't remember a whorehouse scene in The American -- I mean, Henry James writing a whorehouse scene? maybe there was some very elliptic phrase that was meant to allude to... oh, this must be a different The American."
But you remembered Henry James writing about George Clooney.
Clooney seems old to play Christopher Newman, but it could have been an older movie I wasn't aware of.
IS THIS THE PUDDING AND ICE CREAM THREAD?
|| Whoa. Gang of Four song in an XBox commercial. |>
27 -- Leech isn't a lawyer (iirc); you might consider an apology.
I don't see the point of eating puttanesca without anchovies and garlic.
Actually, I don't see the point of living without anchovies and garlic.
Yeah, this was basically a post about me fucking up the dish. However, tonight I had some vegetable soup my roommate made, and it was delicious.
I thought puttanesca was supposed to be pungent so as to cover up the whorehouse perfume, and thus eaten by the menz after visiting said whorehouses. (This relies on the notion that the insult "you smell like a French whore" works also against Italian whores.)
no ingredients that aren't pantry staples
Not for Stanley, obviously.
@32: ||Whoa. "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" in a Subaru commercial ||
"If I Should Fall From Grace With God" in a Subaru commercial
Holy Shit!
I'm waiting for Sir Mix-a-Lot to sell out because that's where the genius commercials are going to be coming from.
Apo called 1-800-MIX-ALOT not so long ago. Somebody has it and that is an obvious issue.
Now Lord Mix-a-Lot, after his father's untimely death.
Leech isn't a lawyer (iirc); you might consider an apology
You're right as usual, charley. I am a commercial real estate broker. Is the apology intended for me or to the members of the bar who would be offended by association with such?