To fuck or to cook?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I was really only joking when I was talking about your last meal.

My cardiologist isn't.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
You're as wrong as any pasta that's not al dente.

What do the "-" and "u" over an "o" mean? Because most pronunciation sites state that it can be pronounced both ways.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
before I stopped the whole carb thing i loved gnocchi- BUT always had trouble ordering it.

My mother's family (Calabria) said yawn-kies. so I would order that and the waitperson, hoping to help me i suppose, would say "oh the ge-no-chi, good choice!" then I would say "what part of Italy is your mother from?" and they would shut the fuck up and I suppose spit in my food. Once the waitress told me her family is from rome and her husband's family is from Milano- so she won that one.

After awhile I got tired of the whole script and stopped ordering it, of if I did mumbling it quickly with some compromise pronounciation.

Gnocchi, sauteed lightly in butter with a garlic clove, just sliced in half and tossed at the end, and fresh sage. Mmmmmmmmmm.

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I don't think the "o" is long after a "gn" in italian.

You know, you're right (we're talking standard academic pronunciation here, not any dialect), but for the wrong reason. It's not the gn that makes it short/open, it's the double consonant.

No way I could limit a list to only five, and it changes with the seasons, but one of my favorites would have to be the blotkake I made Saturday (that o should have a slash, natch). Okay, it's the berry cream cake from Cook's Illustrated, but with mixed berries instead of strawberries (raspberries, boysenberries, marionberries), and I picked the berries myself on Friday morning. It was so good that seven of us ate the whole damned thing.

Also right up there would have to be the strawberry-rhubarb-ginger trifle I made a few weeks ago, when strawberries were in season. Pound cake spread with homemade rhubarb-ginger jam, layered with whipped cream and fresh local strawberries, sprinkled with chopped crystallized ginger and diced roasted hazelnuts.

And I am not usually a fruit dessert person!

Mmmm, berries.

tm

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
It's pronounce "nyocki" in my family (also Calabria).

In no order:

Artichokes w/lemon butter
Porterhouse covered in mushrooms from Rosebud Steakhouse
My mom's gnocchi
Freshly caught cobia
Unagi

I went to a place called Rosebud in Chicago that was more an Italian place -- same thing?

I will add -- key lime bars that my mom made over 4th July weekend

Really good hummus

Dutch baby pancake (how could I forget this???? oh, because I'd have to go all the way to Redondo beach to get one now, instead of going <mile down the street)

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I went to a place called Rosebud in Chicago that was more an Italian place -- same thing?

I will add -- key lime bars that my mom made over 4th July weekend

Really good hummus

Dutch baby pancake (how could I forget this???? oh, because I'd have to go all the way to Redondo beach to get one now, instead of going <mile down the street)

Rosebud is a good-sized chain, which grew out of one of the best places in the old Little Italy on Taylor Street before UIC came along and destroyed the neighborhood, along with the Maxwell Street Market.

Rosebud has a number of pasta houses and a steakhouse in the River North/South Rush Street neighborhood. I am guessing that's the place Coltrane is talking about.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I went to a place called Rosebud in Chicago that was more an Italian place -- same thing?

No. Two restaurants. One is italian. One is a steakhouse. Same owners.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Rosebud is a good-sized chain, which grew out of one of the best places in the old Little Italy on Taylor Street before UIC came along and destroyed the neighborhood, along with the Maxwell Street Market.

Rosebud has a number of pasta houses and a steakhouse in the River North/South Rush Street neighborhood. I am guessing that's the place Coltrane is talking about.

I don't think Rosebud's steakhouse is a chain. It's on Walton St. by the Drake.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I went to a place called Rosebud in Chicago that was more an Italian place -- same thing?

I will add -- key lime bars that my mom made over 4th July weekend

Really good hummus

Dutch baby pancake (how could I forget this???? oh, because I'd have to go all the way to Redondo beach to get one now, instead of going <mile down the street)

Cafe Izmar hummus makes my list (somewhere in the rotating 3-5 slots). I can't seem to eat hummus from anywhere else and enjoy it anymore. Which is sad because Cafe Izmar is 1500 miles away. sniff.

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
. . . a far north dialect . . .

Well, that explains your looking-down-the-nose-at-uz-sicilians attitude. Either that or because most of us are 4'4".

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Cafe Izmar hummus makes my list (somewhere in the rotating 3-5 slots). I can't seem to eat hummus from anywhere else and enjoy it anymore. Which is sad because Cafe Izmar is 1500 miles away. sniff.

I love, love, love the hummus that comes with the chicken tawook at a little strip-mall place where my parents live, as long as it is altered by mixing in some of the garlic/lemon/olive oil paste scraped off the top of the chicken.

Unfortunately, the people who own the restaurant and make the food left for a month-long vacation to Lebanon on July 6. I fear for my tawook.

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Gnocchi, sauteed lightly in butter with a garlic clove, just sliced in half and tossed at the end, and fresh sage. Mmmmmmmmmm.

I just came.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
No. Two restaurants. One is italian. One is a steakhouse. Same owners.

No. Rosebud on Taylor Street, Rosebud in Naperville, Rosebud Theater District on Madison, Rosebud Steakhouse, Rosebud in Highland Park. And Carmine's on Rush. Their website is here.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by taxwonk
My cardiologist isn't.

Things I do not want to be my last meal:

Soggy-crust pizza from the place in the Shops at National Place, DC.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
I just came.

You are making wanker's special sauce?