[jblum315]

Originally Posted by mixsonci

OK, I have a strange question for you all and would love a "positive" answer. I love Italian food, love it. However, I NEVER go to an Italian restaurant to order food, because I do NOT EAT ONIONS, EVER. I HATE HATE HATE them and of course, except for pizza sauce, every Italian restaurant puts onions in their sauce on all pasta dishes. I also don't like mushrooms or peppers (I know very picky), are there any restaurants that have just a plain tomato sauce without all the veggies in it? I would love to go out and get a great chicken or veal parmagian (sp?), any ideas?

I don't think you're going to have much luck. Onions are a pretty basic ingredient in most cuisines, not just Italian. What do you use when you make spaghetti at home, Hunt's tomato sauce, or ketchup? Oh, no, ketchup has onions in it.

[jblum315]

Originally Posted by Parker

Any reports on Red Sauce, good or bad, at Lake Sumter Landing?

Red Sauce is awful.

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[Patty55]

Originally Posted by mixsonci

OK, I have a strange question for you all and would love a "positive" answer. I love Italian food, love it. However, I NEVER go to an Italian restaurant to order food, because I do NOT EAT ONIONS, EVER. I HATE HATE HATE them and of course, except for pizza sauce, every Italian restaurant puts onions in their sauce on all pasta dishes. I also don't like mushrooms or peppers (I know very picky), are there any restaurants that have just a plain tomato sauce without all the veggies in it? I would love to go out and get a great chicken or veal parmagian (sp?), any ideas?

How about picatta?

My mother's secret sauce. One can DelMonte tomato sauce, two cans water, heat it up. They say you like what you grew up with. NOT, even as a kid I knew this was not normal-LOL.

If you like the pizza sauce why not ask for that to be used on your dinner?

[Golfingnut]

The fact is, when folks on here LOOK, RECOMMEND AND RATE so called Italian food, you need too know if they are taking about the American style that is over spiced, over cooked and served with WAY too much gravy (sauce).

I like American style pasta like they serve at Carabbas but that is not Italian.

[2BNTV]

Originally Posted by mixsonci

OK, I have a strange question for you all and would love a "positive" answer. I love Italian food, love it. However, I NEVER go to an Italian restaurant to order food, because I do NOT EAT ONIONS, EVER. I HATE HATE HATE them and of course, except for pizza sauce, every Italian restaurant puts onions in their sauce on all pasta dishes. I also don't like mushrooms or peppers (I know very picky), are there any restaurants that have just a plain tomato sauce without all the veggies in it? I would love to go out and get a great chicken or veal parmagian (sp?), any ideas?

This is not a smart alec answer but I would tend to think that you might want to consider making your own sauce and eat at home. If you love pasta but with no onions, it's probably only the only option, as most Italian restaurants would consider onions as a basic ingredient. You can make a big batch of sauce and freeze it, for several meals when you want to eat pasta.

Personally, my body needs pasta several times a week but in small amounts as I feel a craving, if I don't eat pasta.

BTW - I love onions.

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[2BNTV]

Originally Posted by senior citizen

I love onions also.......but I do not put onions in my marinara pasta sauce (unless I'm making a meat sauce and then I definitely would)......

You are lucky you are not intolerant to the nightshade family of veggies to include tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, etc.etc., etc.

I forgot to tell the poster that sometimes we grate carrot into the sauce to make it sweeter (rather than sugar); some folks find tomato sauce to be too acidic.

Do you have any good Portuguese recipes? My husband worked with a Portuguese couple FIFTY (50) years ago. She would bring in the most delicious Portuguese white fish (I think it was cod) covered with crushed tomatoes and probably oregano, etc., etc......not sure what all went into that topping......then broiled. My Italian dad made something similar but hers was really really delicious.

Glad to see your posts back again. Everyone missed you.

My father was Portugese and we went to the restaurant in Newark, N.J.

My favorite is paella and my best friend loves mariscada, (seafood made in a brandy based sauce. The Portugese sausage, (chourica), made by the same friend is delicious with potato's and onions, with of course, Portugese bread).. He is a very good cook and imaginative.

My brother used to love the bacalau, made portugese style.

I am not a cook but I am handy with a fork.

The Ultimate Paella Recipe : Tyler Florence : Recipes : Food Network

Mariscada Portuguese Seafood Rice

Maria's Portuguese Bacalau Recipe - Allrecipes.com

Gotta go, I am getting hungry.

[mixsonci]

As I said in my original post, sine I cannot go to an Italian restaurant for the reasons I stated, obviously I do only eat it at home. I am not a great cook, but I can make a sauce, but that was not the point, which was it would be nice to go out to an Italian restaurant if there was one around with such options. So evidently the answer is no, I guess I will continue going to a steakhouse.

[mixsonci]

Thank you all for your very charming answers. My question was a legitimate question, I thought this was the place to get help from all of your expertise. Yes I do like ketchup and pizza sauce, but not on my pasta, I also do like garlic a lot, what I do not like is to be ridiculed. So thank you all, I have no more questions.

[2BNTV]

Originally Posted by mixsonci

Thank you all for your very charming answers. My question was a legitimate question, I thought this was the place to get help from all of your expertise. Yes I do like ketchup and pizza sauce, but not on my pasta, I also do like garlic a lot, what I do not like is to be ridiculed. So thank you all, I have no more questions.

I am sorry if you felt offended by my comments. I didn't intend to ridiclue you.

Please stay on TOTV as it is a wonderful source of information.

Again, I apologize.

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[2BNTV]

Originally Posted by senior citizen

THANK YOU. Love those recipes. I do make Paella....the Spanish version. Our son spent some time in Granada Spain as a high school foreign exchange student; then the girl came and stayed with us.

I LOVE Paella and it's a great party food......makes a huge batch.
My problem is I never could find saffron here.......but our daughter gets it for us from her health food store........I'm also getting hungry.

I have put chorizo? sausage into the paella, plus shrimp and chicken, peas, etc. (not looking at my recipe), onions, garlic, saffron, chicken broth, crushed tomatoes? RICE OF COURSE. I never used clams, etc.
I guess I figured the kids wouldn't eat it.

My dad loved bacala.......I think the food is very similar.
His was dried cod fish.

But he also used the fresh white cod fish, put on the "topping" and then broiled it I think.

What I ate as a child, my grandkids would NEVER touch now.
Such as ANCHOVIES. I loved them.

Thanks again for the recipe links........

We'll have to go to a restaurant, to get paella when you get down here.

I understand there is a good place, "Latina Y Mas", near TV.

[Portia]

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