From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!zehntel!zinfandel!michael Newsgroups: net.cooks Title: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf) Article-I.D.: zehntel.770 Posted: Tue Feb 22 13:18:28 1983 Received: Wed Feb 23 06:00:57 1983 #R:ihuxt:-15100:zinfandel:4300017:177600:1139 zinfandel!michael Feb 19 23:24:00 1983 I have recently returned from a year of working in Italy and while I was there I learned of a different way of preparing spaghetti which I really like. Its called "carbonara" or something quite close. I can't remember the exact steps and truly interested people should hunt for a real recipe but when I make it I do roughly the following things ... put enough spaghetti in boiling water to cook cut enough bacn into small pieces and fry til tender seperate enough eggs and give the whites to a worthy cause mix cream in with the yolks, about 3 to 1 youlk to cream ratio is good add the right amount of parmesaen cheese to cream/egg mixture drain spaghetti and put in pan with bacon stir in egg stuff and serve immediately The italian lady who taught the recipe was quite insistent on two points: 1) It must be eaten immediately while it is hot 2) Don't let it sit all together in the pan too long, serve as son as the stuff is all mixed up. Because there is hot grease from cooking the bacon the yolks should be cooked almost as soon as everything is stirred. As they say in Italy .. Bon Apetito Michael Toy