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Post by kim on Feb 19, 2008 8:05:15 GMT -5
For the best rigges ever....
Saute the following:
1 stick of real butter
1 red onion, minced
3 cloves garlic, minced
24 oz. jar of roasted peppers in olive oil, sliced
5 sliced cherry peppers, mild or hot, depending on your taste
After those are sauteed, add:
1 cup parmesan cheese
2 lbs boneless chicken breast, cubed
1 can chicken broth
1 can tomato sauce (15 oz)
1 can Alfredo sauce
Cook on stove for an hour or so, stirring so it won't burn, then serve over Rigatoni. YUM!
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Post by countrygal on Feb 19, 2008 11:38:07 GMT -5
This looks good! I have a recipe where you make your own Alfredo sauce for the riggis. Lots of cream and butter. Not good for the waist line! My cousins girlfriend makes riggis with a tomato base so it's red. Very good though! Tickets went on sale today for the Riggi Fest in April. Hope I can find a sitter so I can go!
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Post by frankcor on Feb 19, 2008 12:56:07 GMT -5
My brother makes his with a marinara sauce and stirs in some heavy cream just before serving. He learned his recipe by watching Georgio when Georgio was a chef at Chesterfield's.
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Post by kim on Feb 19, 2008 12:59:50 GMT -5
I thought about making the alfredo sauce but decided it was too much work! In the summer, though, I DO make my own tomato sauce fresh from my own garden. It's great to pick my own tomatoes from my own garden and make homemade sauce!
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Post by frankcor on Feb 20, 2008 13:45:53 GMT -5
OMG, reading your post about home made sauce from home grown tomatoes made me flash on my childhood. I remember walking up Nock St. in East Rome when Grandma was putting up tomatoes. The whole neighborhood smelled of the stewing tomatoes and it was absolutely heaven.
Grandpa grew the biggest Roma (plum) tomatoes I ever remember seeing -- "da size of my fist" he would brag. Romas make the best Sunday gravy, he claimed. He attributed his success to his special blend of manure. I walked beside him one time as he pushed his wheelbarrow downtown with an empty drum on it. We visited a select series of stables, adding a shovelfull or so at each stop as he compiled his formula of horseshit varieties. Upon our return home, he'd add water and stir before spreading it on his garden plot.
He took his secret formula to the grave with him. My uncles speculated on whether it was the breeding of the horses or the feeds the various stables used, but none of them ever grew tomatoes like grandpa did.
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Post by kim on Feb 20, 2008 21:43:51 GMT -5
Manure? Ummm. I use coffee grounds. :-) Smells better!
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Post by countrygal on Feb 20, 2008 22:41:01 GMT -5
I love the smell of horse doodle. It means I still have a few horses in my barn  |
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Post by kim on Feb 21, 2008 8:04:13 GMT -5
Horse doodle? Oh dear.
I live on what, until recently, was a cattle farm. The farmer didn't sell the whole thing to the developer and there are still cows nearby. Sometimes I can her them, sometimes I can see them, and sometimes I can smell them. I actually think it's kind of neat. I almost, kinda live in the country, but not really. LOL!
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Post by Clipper on Feb 21, 2008 11:44:58 GMT -5
With all the e-coli and crap going around, I gave up my fertilizer formula last summer. For many years I used a manure tea on my plants. I put manure in a barrel encased in a burlap sack and made manure tea to pour on my plants. Made them grow really well. I would change the manure in the bag a couple of times a summer. Had to be careful not to use too fresh of a manure sample, or the ammonia and such would yellow and kill young plants. It made for killer beefsteaks and romas both.
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Post by lilbump1980 on Feb 29, 2008 21:13:14 GMT -5
instead if heavy cream I use low fat chicken broth and white wine. it keeps it a red marinara sauce.. and is a lot less fatening for you. just an fyi plus my fiance does not like the cream sauce.
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