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Kairo

Fettuccine Alfredo.

with broccoli and chicken is bomb

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Ah, just my type of thread!

Here are, in no particular order, the most three prestigious pasta dishes:

  • Bucatini all'amatriciana (with onions, garlic, and white wine, fuck Lazio snobs)
  • Fettuccini with truffle-cream sauce and steak strips (among the top 5 dishes I ever had in my life) 
  • Spaghetti with squid ink (may only be eaten while an elderly deadlifting statistician berates you on your priors, genetics, and Twitter feed)
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Personal favorites (in order):

Spaghetti and meatballs - When executed well, there are, IMO, few culinary things that are on par with a great meatball.  Probably my last meal on death row.

Bucatini all'amatriciana -  Guanciale is a must.

Pesto Genovese - Make this all the time in the summer when we grow basil.  Favorite pasta is fusilli/gemelli, gotta have something with decent surface area for the sauce to adhere to.  Chicken/cherry tomatoes are ideal additions, but straight up is baller as well.

Linguini alle vongole - Linguini with clam sauce.  White wine only, and you better load that bish up with tons of garlic/parsley.  Little lemon is a nice touch.

Frutti di mare - hard to not love half the ocean with red sauce.  Bonus points for Arrabbiata (spicy) sauce.  Throw some calabrian chili's/crushed red pepper in there.

Penne alla vodka - Need I say more?

Honorable mentions:

Shrimp Scampi, Squid Ink Pasta (Squid Ink Risotto is another top tier Italian dish), Bucatini Carbonara

 
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Personal favorites (in order):

Spaghetti and meatballs - When executed well, there are, IMO, few culinary things that are on par with a great meatball.  Probably my last meal on death row.

Bucatini all'amatriciana -  Guanciale is a must.

Pesto Genovese - Make this all the time in the summer when we grow basil.  Favorite pasta is fusilli/gemelli, gotta have something with decent surface area for the sauce to adhere to.  Chicken/cherry tomatoes are ideal additions, but straight up is baller as well.

Linguini alle vongole - Linguini with clam sauce.  White wine only, and you better load that bish up with tons of garlic/parsley.  Little lemon is a nice touch.

Frutti di mare - hard to not love half the ocean with red sauce.

Penne alla vodka - Need I say more?

Honorable mentions:

Shrimp Scampi, Squid Ink Pasta (Squid Ink Risotto is another top tier Italian dish), Bucatini Carbonara

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
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AL DENTE.

Not that mush thing.

This is key.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
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Gnocchi is childish but delicious

Gnocchi is the bomb

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

The pasta from nearly any place in Italy is mindblowing.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Isaiah's takes are usually good, but Madone, lobster mac & cheese is to prestigious pasta what Hawaiian style is to prestigious pizza.

Home-made cavatelli with marinara, braciole, meatballs, & sausage w/ some parmesan cheese is the blue-blood of pasta dishes.  For the medigans out there, braciole is pronounced, bruh-j'all (soft/rolling j).  Could also put a spoonful of ricotta (ruh-gawt) on top.  

I come from down in the valley, where mister when you're young, they bring you up to do like your daddy done
 

haha yeah just threw that up as a conversation starter

nice takes

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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