FOOD
When I scheduled Augustine Sam for my Food, Fiction, and Foolishness feature, I didn’t know he’d submit a spaghetti recipe. This makes two in a row!! However, his is much fancier than the one I posted two weeks ago, so I hope you’ll give it a try and let me know how you liked it. Here’s a link for conversion to US measurements. https://www.gourmetsleuth.com/conversions/grams/gram-conversions
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Spaghetti alla Carbonara
My recipe is for the traditional Italian dish—Spaghetti alla Carbonara—a dinner favorite. It is quick, simple, and usually a hit with many families. The requirements are spiced bacon (Pancetta in Italian) cut into strips, a golden cream made from yolks, and Pecorino cheese (the Italian sheep’s milk cheese) grated at the moment.
Ingredients:
• Spaghetti – about 400g
• Pancetta – about 200g (bacon)
• Egg yolks – about 4
• Pepper – q.s. – quantum sufficit (whatever’s enough)
• Salt – q.s.
• Oil – q.s.
• Pecorino – about 50g (Italian sheep’s milk cheese)
Preparation:
1) Cook the spaghetti in boiling water with little salt. The pasta should not be too soft or overdone, it should, instead, be cooked to be firm to the bite (“al dente” in Italian).
2) In the meantime, cut the bacon or pork cheek into cubes, letting it dissolve in a pan with little oil.
3) When the bacon or cheek lard fat partially melts, add a little water and cook over moderate heat for about ten minutes.
4) Beat the egg yolks in a salad bowl, as if to make an omelet, add the Pecorino cheese and a pinch of black pepper.
5) Mix the ingredients: Pour the bacon or cheek lard over the spaghetti cooked “al dente”, and add the beaten egg yolks prepared with the cheese, mixing them until they are firm, then serve your Spaghetti alla Carbonara hot.
FICTION
The saga of a compelling backward journey through a broken mind…
Paige Lyman, an accomplished psychiatrist, is on the verge of madness but she doesn’t know it yet. The madness begins when she gets it into her head to write her memoirs. As her brilliant mind assembles bits and pieces of her life for the book, ugly skeletons, long forgotten in the closet, begin to rear their heads.
It had all begun with a simple act of love. And love, for her, was a blond-haired Irish boy named Bill, so when Bill abandoned her for priesthood the world around her collapsed. Now seized by a different passion—vengeance—she seeks her proverbial pound of flesh in the beds of various priests.
But that’s before she meets Stern W. And now, she’s transformed from a psychiatrist to a patient, and saddled with dark memories she must decipher in order to be free…
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FOOLISHNESS
Funny Book quote: “Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” – P.J. O’Rourke
