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[LaSignoraMusica]

Last summer, when I was at the Colosseum waiting for my friends to come out, I had a nice talk with two of the employees there. Renato, who started serenating me, and his friend who came from Umbria. That friend was pleasantly surprised I regularly made "Panzanella", the typical Umbrian/Tuscan bread salad, at home. And then his friend Renato gave me the recipe of his "Spaghetti alla Roma".

You have to cook the spaghetti al dente, with a dash of olive oil in the water to prevent it from becoming one dense mass.
Then you slice a red onion into rings and fry it in the frying pan, and you add small cubes of bacon. Fry everything, and add some "Passato di pomodoro". Let your spaghetti drip dry, and add the tomato/bacon sauce.
Grate some "Pecorino Romano" cheese over it, and serve with fresh salad.
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[LaSignoraMusica]

You have to put the spaghetti in a colander after cooking (make sure it is cooked "al dente" which is not too soft, always look for "granum durum") and just let the water dripp out. Then put back in the pan and mix with the other ingredients.
For the salad I use often simple olio d'olivo extra vergine, the green olive oil. Fresh grinded black pepper and fresh grinded sea salt. For vinegar I use different ones: my favorite is "aceto balsamico" (di Modena), but of course a wine vinegar will also do. Of course you can add all sorts of other ingredients, like fresh herbs, and honey. (Bocelli honey, sulla acacia ...hmmmm! Mine is finished, so I will get some new this summer!) I had some salad when I had lunch at Mamma Edi's house, but I didn't like her dressing very much, which was too salt to my taste. It was radiccio, which vegetable I like very much...It was a great combination though with the tuscan steak(cut by Alberto) and rosé wine(poured in my glass by Alberto).
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[Kenzu]

I made it few days ago and served the sauce(pasta alla Roma) with linguini......It was delicious thanks LSM. My older daughter took the rest with her to stables :wink: so nothing left : :lol:
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