It's Not the Looks! It's the Taste... Try It!

Wondering why I gave that title? It is because I saw the photographs of the pasta menu I am posting now and the images actually donot seem that appealing to the eyes. It is actually another pasta dish to share with you. In fact, aside from the PPP I posted before, this is can be said to be my second favorite. I just like to have a little challenge in the taste of food. I mean, I love them strong. And when I mean strong, it is either bitter, sour or hot and spicy.


The ingredients... spaghetti, chili, salt, tuna, lemon, (onion and chili are optional but onion makes the smell better since it is tuna)..

First things first though. Spaghetti, as everyone or the many know it, is not the reddish thing you see with tomato paste/conserve/sauce or whatever you use. Spaghetti is a kind of pasta.. yes, that ling stick of pasta. In fact different shapes of pasta has different names and spaghetti is just one of the very many types. Spaghetti is the first name and Pasta is the second name. Relatives of spaghetti with other Italian last name, Pasta, are Fussili, Maltagliati, Macaroni, etc. You ever wonder why they end in letter "i"? That is to denote being plural.

The tuna, sauteeing in oil with onion and chili ( i think i missed the onion this time though.. i don't use onion when I have to go out after eating due to the smell that stays for quite some time)

Don't blame yourself about Spaghetti notion. I used to have the same notion before I livved in Italy. So now that I am sharing with you one Spaghetti dish, you must not think anything red, for nothing is red here in what I am going to share with you.It is actually a dish we oftentimes prepare if we are in a hurry. Around 10 minutes and it's up. The only slow part is the boiling of the spaghetti actually, which is quite lnger than the other "not so solid formed" pasta such as macaroni and the rest.

Spicing up the life...

It's boiling time
Going back to the dish, it is spaghetti with tuna in lemon sauce. Spaghetti con Tona. The process is actually very simple.

1. Boil the spaghetti by letting the water boil first then put salt and spaghetti.

2. Prepare the tuna by fauteeing it in onion and olive oil (oil is substitutable) and add some chili (if you are like me who loves hottie n spicy foods).


Squeezing lemon on it...

Boiling...boiling...

3. Squeeze a lemon or half depending on the amount and your preference and just stir a little more.

4. When the spaghetti is already al dente, mix the two. You can add more chili or lemon when you are mixing the two together to suit your taste.

Al dente (to the tooth) check...


It's gonna be ready soon...

That was it! You are off ready to eat. The practicality of using the sour lemon with tuna is to remove the fishy taste n smell aside from giving the flavor. SO here it is today, another pasta dish shared with ou. If you want more with photographs as well, you may also click the following links:

Pasta, Panna, Prosciuto...
A Delicious Fast Throw Food: The Italian Pasta


Spice the life up even more...hmmm


Now, Buon appetito! Enjoy yiur meal!

Click the labels "food", "pasta" or "recipes" to see more of the photographic cooking.