Long Spaghetti
#1
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Long Spaghetti
I had a bolognese for tea. It was lovely, but it would have been nice to have some of that long spaghetti that's readily available back home. I know it's the same really but it's quite satisfying coiling it into the pan as it cooks.
Has anyone seen it here? (preferably a normal shop - not somewhere annoying hipsters go to on commercial drive)
Has anyone seen it here? (preferably a normal shop - not somewhere annoying hipsters go to on commercial drive)
#2
Re: Long Spaghetti
I had a bolognese for tea. It was lovely, but it would have been nice to have some of that long spaghetti that's readily available back home. I know it's the same really but it's quite satisfying coiling it into the pan as it cooks.
Has anyone seen it here? (preferably a normal shop - not somewhere annoying hipsters go to on commercial drive)
Has anyone seen it here? (preferably a normal shop - not somewhere annoying hipsters go to on commercial drive)
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Re: Long Spaghetti
Alan, I haven't seen that for ever...I didn't know they made it anymore - I could never find it in France, just the "half sized long spaghetti". I really liked it, great fun...I'd hesitate now with my husband unless I needed the kitchen repainting
#4
Re: Long Spaghetti
I had a bolognese for tea. It was lovely, but it would have been nice to have some of that long spaghetti that's readily available back home. I know it's the same really but it's quite satisfying coiling it into the pan as it cooks.
Has anyone seen it here? (preferably a normal shop - not somewhere annoying hipsters go to on commercial drive)
Has anyone seen it here? (preferably a normal shop - not somewhere annoying hipsters go to on commercial drive)
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Re: Long Spaghetti
Every time I go to a new supermarket I check to see if they have any and they never do. Unless they keep it in a weird illogical place - like anchovies not being with every other canned fish for some mysterious reason only known to canadian supermarket owners.
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Re: Long Spaghetti
You can still get it in tesco
Every time I go to a new supermarket I check to see if they have any and they never do. Unless they keep it in a weird illogical place - like anchovies not being with every other canned fish for some mysterious reason only known to canadian supermarket owners.
Every time I go to a new supermarket I check to see if they have any and they never do. Unless they keep it in a weird illogical place - like anchovies not being with every other canned fish for some mysterious reason only known to canadian supermarket owners.
Dorothy, I do have a pasta machine, and god knows how many specialist little cutting and shaping tools, and one day in the future if I ever get my kitchen up, I may well unearth them...I might even use them. Good quality dried pasta however, is a pretty basic product and one even the Italians grab with gusto, so I don't think it's much to ask for....mind you here writes a woman who tried to buy Polenta in Fredericton!
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Re: Long Spaghetti
Alan! Don't start me on the hunt for anchovies! Mind mapping and and lateral thought are needed in spades....why do the Canadians do it? But I find as a nation they categorise things very oddly in the isles
Dorothy, I do have a pasta machine, and god knows how many specialist little cutting and shaping tools, and one day in the future if I ever get my kitchen up, I may well unearth them...I might even use them. Good quality dried pasta however, is a pretty basic product and one even the Italians grab with gusto, so I don't think it's much to ask for....mind you here writes a woman who tried to buy Polenta in Fredericton!
Dorothy, I do have a pasta machine, and god knows how many specialist little cutting and shaping tools, and one day in the future if I ever get my kitchen up, I may well unearth them...I might even use them. Good quality dried pasta however, is a pretty basic product and one even the Italians grab with gusto, so I don't think it's much to ask for....mind you here writes a woman who tried to buy Polenta in Fredericton!
#9
Re: Long Spaghetti
I've found the spaghetti here be the roughly the same length as back at home although the sauce it comes in is a little sweeter. I tend to opt for the Zoodles or the Scooby Doo’s these days.
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Re: Long Spaghetti
I had a bolognese for tea. It was lovely, but it would have been nice to have some of that long spaghetti that's readily available back home. I know it's the same really but it's quite satisfying coiling it into the pan as it cooks.
Has anyone seen it here? (preferably a normal shop - not somewhere annoying hipsters go to on commercial drive)
Has anyone seen it here? (preferably a normal shop - not somewhere annoying hipsters go to on commercial drive)
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Re: Long Spaghetti
I buy a jolly nice quinoa spaghetti from Costco. Sometimes the sticks aren't cut properly at the ends and so one has the excitement of a double length of noodle.
I realise that this does not help you with the noodle into pan coiling scenario but I felt the urge to share.
I realise that this does not help you with the noodle into pan coiling scenario but I felt the urge to share.