"Julie Bove" wrote in message ...


"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" wrote in message ...
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> "Doris Night" > wrote in message
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>> An 8-ounce tenderloin steak cooked medium-rare and split between the
>> two of us. It was served with a tossed salad, a sliced yellow tomato
>> fresh from our garden, and some garlic toasts.
>>
>> Yum!
>>
>> Doris
>
> I took Angela to Olive Garden for her birthday. Yuck. But, she wanted to
> go.
> She was only able to eat a couple of bites of her fettuccine because the
> breadstick and salad filled her up. She did bring it home where she
> promptly
> had an accident, dropping it all on the floor.
>
> I had part of an order of whole wheat linguine with meat sauce. I mostly
> ate
> the meat sauce which I don't really like but the pasta was severely
> lacking
> salt and for me, overcooked. I left most of it behind. No salad as there
> is
> too much in it that I can't eat. And it comes already mixed with the
> carrots
> so, no go. Only other thing they have that would have been an option for
> me
> was soup but it's oddly higher in carbs than the pasta and IMO not very
> good.
>
> Thankfully I don't have to go there very often. In general, restaurant
> pasta
> is just not worth paying for. And it's so cheap and easy to make at home.
>
> Tomorrow, husband and I will have leftover meatloaf and mashed potatoes.
> Angela will likely go out somewhere. She got a lot of gift cards and such.
>
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>
> I am sorry you didn't enjoy your dinner. You say the pasta needed salt.
> Do
> they not provide a salt shaker on the table??

Sure they did. But I don't like salting my food, with a few exceptions such
as popcorn, fries, baked potato and sometimes salad. Adding salt after it is
cooked just makes the food taste salty. The sauce had plenty of salt but the
pasta did not. It was all mixed together and just mostly blah and a bit too
garlicky. The garlic is kicking up now and my stomach isn't liking it.

Pasta needs salt when it is cooking. Otherwise it is just very bland. At
least I think so.
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Of course it does, but since you were taking just the sauce off to eat, I
supposed you could take just the pasta off and season it.




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