Do You Like Italian Food?
By LindaOH
@LindaOHio (178568)
United States
September 26, 2023 3:11pm CST
Lasagna, Spaghetti, Chicken Alfredo, Gnocchi, Braciole, Biscotti, Deviled Eggs (believed to have been invented in ancient Rome!), Pasta e Fagioli, Pizza, Tiramisu, Gelato, Prosciutto, Polenta, Risotto, Ravioli, Tortellini, Macaroons, Torrone, Pizzelle and more.
Do you like Italian food? What are your favorites? What is your favorite Italian restaurant or do you make all these goodies at home? If you cook/bake Italian, what is your specialty?
I am a first generation American; and my parents came from Italy. I have my own pizzelle iron and used to make spaghetti, lasagna, pasta e fagioli, deviled eggs, chicken Alfredo and more at home. Olive Garden is OK. It's a chain Italian restaurant in our area. We also have Zappitelli's...they make a mean gnocchi. Just like my mother used to make. How about you?
Photo Credit: Pixabay - A yummy lasagna
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36 responses
@xFiacre (13013)
• Ireland
26 Sep 23
@lindaohio What’s not to like? All those dishes are excellent - if properly prepared. It all goes wrong when people rush things and try to cut corners.
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@LindaOHio (178568)
• United States
27 Sep 23
You're right. Sauce must be simmered slowly for example.
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@Beestring (14554)
• Hong Kong
27 Sep 23
I love Italian food but I guess what we have here is HK version Italian food.
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@LadyDuck (471500)
• Switzerland
27 Sep 23
@Beestring I am Italian, the Italian food that you eat outside Italy is always a "local version".
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@AmbiePam (92711)
• United States
27 Sep 23
I used to love Olive Garden, but they quit making Seafood Portofino, which was my favorite dish ever. The best Italian restaurant I ever went to was called Alfredo’s, and he even made his own pasta, which you wouldn’t expect for an affordable Italian restaurant. Oh man, was that place good.
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@LindaOHio (178568)
• United States
27 Sep 23
Is that Seafood Porofino the one with mussels, etc. My husband likes that.
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@Nawsheen (28643)
• Mauritius
28 Sep 23
@1creekgirl yes thankfully gluten free bread, pasta, snacks are widely available. I leave on these and of course vegetables and meat
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@1creekgirl (41427)
• United States
27 Sep 23
I'm sorry to hear that, my husband is also. Have you found better ways to cook and be gluten free?
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@LindaOHio (178568)
• United States
27 Sep 23
They have gluten-free pasta and lactose pills you can take for the dairy problem.
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@LindaOHio (178568)
• United States
27 Sep 23
Olive Garden is not the best chain. Their food is OK.
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@sathviksouvik (19469)
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27 Sep 23
yes I like italian food a lot. I like the pizzas. In India Dominos and Pizza hut are very popular
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@sathviksouvik (19469)
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28 Sep 23
@LindaOHio thanks Linda I love too there are a lot of varieties of them.
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@kaylachan (69671)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
26 Sep 23
Pretty much all of it. Then again I'm a big pasta lover.
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@kaylachan (69671)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
27 Sep 23
@LindaOHio I'm glad you do.
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@rebelann (112872)
• El Paso, Texas
27 Sep 23
I love Italian ..... ok, to rephrase, I love what I am familiar with that is considered Italian like lasagna or spaghetti. As for pizza, if I'm not mistaken Italian pizza was very different from the American variety. My siblings inlaws are from an old Italian family whose great grandmother made traditional Italian pizza, I was surprised when I found out how it's made.
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@rebelann (112872)
• El Paso, Texas
27 Sep 23
If I remember correctly the way the great grandmother would make it is with a pizza like crust then put olive oil, basil and cheese on it. I'm not exactly sure about the cheese though but it was a simple recipe
I'll bet @ladyduck would know what that ancient recipe is.
The great grandmother passed away in the late 1970s at the age of 95.
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@LadyDuck (471500)
• Switzerland
28 Sep 23
@rebelann Pizza is from south of Italy. I am a northern and not an expert, but I learned to make good pizza from someone from Napoli. You prepare the dough, it has to rest many hours, better if overnight. Then you enlarge the dough with your hands (no rolling pin), you top with a little tomato sauce (NOT TONS and NOT paste), on the sauce you add sliced mozzarella cheese (again NOT a lot) and basil leaves if you want a pizza Margherita, or oregano if you want a Neapolitan pizza.
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@LadyDuck (471500)
• Switzerland
27 Sep 23
As I am Italian YES, I like real Italian food. I make my own Italian food. For my niece my tortellini are to die for, for another friend it is my vitello tonnato, I make also lasagne and those are among my favorite thing, with Risotto alla Milanese and Cotoletta alla Milanese (breaded veal). I think it shows I am a "Milanse" (from Milano).
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@LadyDuck (471500)
• Switzerland
28 Sep 23
@LindaOHio I would more than happy to have you and your husband as my guests.
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@LindaOHio (178568)
• United States
28 Sep 23
I would love to eat at your house!!!
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@DaddyEvil (137257)
• United States
26 Sep 23
Italian food is always good! Before the pandemic there was a restaurant in Springfield that we went to every few months but it closed and never reopened. I make spaghetti and lasagna at home using store bought items to make them.
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@DaddyEvil (137257)
• United States
28 Sep 23
@LindaOHio I like lots of meat and lots of cheese. YUM!
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@LindaOHio (178568)
• United States
27 Sep 23
I like making lasagna with lots of cheese.
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@Marilynda1225 (82791)
• United States
27 Sep 23
I would say Italian food is my absolute favorite. We eat it at least two times a week and I love lasagna. I don't eat Italian food out very often and generally cook it all myself.
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@Marilynda1225 (82791)
• United States
28 Sep 23
@LindaOHio yum! that sounds so good.
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@LindaOHio (178568)
• United States
27 Sep 23
I've always wanted to try tiramisu.
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@aninditasen (16389)
• Raurkela, India
27 Sep 23
I like some Italian dishes but not all and do make a few at home. I don't like pasta but my son loves it.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (84013)
• Rupert, Idaho
27 Sep 23
I like some italian food, but definitely not all. Favorite of course - Chicken Alfredo. Didn't know deviled eggs were italian, but that's one of my favorite ways to eat an egg (and I don't enjoy them many ways)
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@LindaOHio (178568)
• United States
27 Sep 23
@MommyOfEli2013 That means they taste pretty good.
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@ptrikha_2 (46951)
• India
28 Sep 23
Pastas of various kinds and Pizzas are what I am familiar with.
Pizza is among one of my favorites but due to health reasons, I have them once in 2/3 months only.
I have tried Biscotti a few times.
Macaroons - I have seen but not tried as they are costly so I need o plan out.
I think I had Risotto a long time back but do not exactly remember the taste.
With others, I seem to have heard names but not tried these out.
Quite an interesting share.
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@LindaOHio (178568)
• United States
28 Sep 23
Thank you and thank you for responding!!!
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@TheHorse (218807)
• Walnut Creek, California
28 Sep 23
@LindaOHio My favorite is chocolate chip cookie dough.
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@LindaOHio (178568)
• United States
28 Sep 23
I LOVE ice cream, any flavor, any time.
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@JudyEv (339930)
• Rockingham, Australia
28 Sep 23
@LindaOHio Me too. We have an Italian friend who makes a great lasagne.
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@LindaOHio (178568)
• United States
27 Sep 23
I like lasagna with a lot of cheese.
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@LindaOHio (178568)
• United States
12 Oct 23
Except for gnocchi and chicken parm I prefer Chinese too.
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@LindaOHio (178568)
• United States
13 Oct 23
@porwest My husband loves Italian much more than I do...and I"m Italian.
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@porwest (90823)
• United States
13 Oct 23
@LindaOHio If I were to pick two Italian favorites it would be the boring ones. Lasagna and spaghetti.
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@arunima25 (87806)
• Bangalore, India
29 Sep 23
I have not tried all of them. But yes pizza, pasta, lasagna and ravioli are yummy if cooked well. What we get here might be adjusted to Indian taste. My daughters make them from scratch.
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@LindaOHio (178568)
• United States
29 Sep 23
That's good that your daughters can cook Italian from scratch!
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@LindaOHio (178568)
• United States
30 Sep 23
@arunima25 YouTube is a great place to learn all kinds of things.
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@arunima25 (87806)
• Bangalore, India
30 Sep 23
@LindaOHio Yes, they do. They have learnt a lot of cooking following some YouTube channels. They are interested in cooking and baking. They keep trying new things.
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