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Ingredients For pasta dough
Directions For the pasta dough:
Notes Taccozze tossed with olive oil and fried garlic cloves were seen as the food of the poor, but having made them myself and having had the pleasure of eating them I have to say that they are quite delicious.... In Italy quite a few people added the water that the pasta was cooked in to the sauce. Personally I don't find this necessary. I suspect this was done to decrease the amount of oil used. Adding water to the sauce dilutes the taste of the garlic, but that's just my opinion. This simple meal (Can't get more simple than this) has an incredible flavor. In fact, one doesn't feel that one is eating a pasta dish but more of a dessert dish. Home-made "everyday" pasta dough has a rather sweet taste, so it's easy to over-indulge. If one wants to avoid over-eating this is not the dish to do. Photo: Mary Melfi. |