Pasta and meatballs in Argentina. One more time.
Here´s a comment from Myriam Mahiques, who explains herself below. Here´s a link to Myriam Mahique´s direct and refreshing blog, which I am thoroughly enjoying. In response to Nick who suggested that meatballs in the Argentine were the dreaded American meatballs all over again, she explains why not.
I´m an Argentine architect, living in California. I´ve just opened a blog to leave our recipes to my daughters. Regarding your article about Spaghetti and meatballs, we prefer the meatballs fried and served as an appetizer.
Spaghetti comes with marinara sauce (tuco) or bolognesa sauce (marinara plus grind meat).
The bread crumbs in the meatballs would spoil the pasta and sauce, if you understand what I mean, if we want meatballs in sauce, we make a different recipe, without bread crumbs. It´s completely different the way Americans eat them. And we´d never put them in a sandwich.
Lasagna, after boiled, we fill it and put it in the oven, with sauce.
Almost everybody in Buenos Aires had an Italian or Spanish ancestor. We learnt a lot from them, and it is a shame for a woman not to know how to cook. We really appreciate good food, Spanish, Italian, then French cuisine. Served at a nice table, the finest, the better.
Here´s the post that prompted all this, an Argentinian recipe for lasagne in response to a reader’s request.
- Thin rice starch batter pastry from the 6th century AD
- Hunger, Bread, Free Trade, and the Moral Consumer
Dear Rachel, once again, thank you so much for your interest in my country!
Very interesting! especially the distinction between meatball recipes/ingredients and the way that they will be served/used. Sadly, the link for Argentinian Lasagne requires login info and does not offer any way to become a member.
Kay, tried that link, not from WordPress but from a web search. I had no problem. Could you try again to see if it was a one-time glitch? Or something to do with the migration of my blog to another host?
Good evening,
I hope that everything is going well.
I had the same experience as Kay, but then I went to Google and searched for Argentinian lasagne.
The link that Google posted worked just fine:)
Thanks for all your delightful posts,
Fiona
Thanks for letting me know, Fiona. I’ve re-done the link, let´s hope it works now. And thank for the nice words.