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Carbonara is a sexy dish. I love to make it. I meditate on it. The quality of the ingredients make the dish better. Good cheese, bacon (I've never used guanciale), eggs, and pepper.

This isn't a recipe. Just thoughts. I like slab bacon cut thick and slow cooked in a pan. Drain half the grease I like to put diced garlic in the leftover bacon grease and add it.

Mix the eggs in a bowl let come to room temp and reserve some pasta water and temper the egg mixture to keep it from scrambling. Use the eggs, cheese, and water to make the sauce silky and not creamy. It should shimmer and coat the pasta. Add it all to hot pasta and toss at the table. Definitely best to serve immediately with fresh ground pepper.

This is a practice, practice, practice dish. it gets better the more you do it.

No peas, no chicken, and no milk or cream. Only dried spaghetti. Other noodles are too thick or thin.

I've never warmed a dish for this. Never noticed any congealing. But I bet that a warm bowl wouldn't hurt. And I totally disagree about leftovers. Leftover carbonara is great for breakfast the next day lightly fried in a pan with some oil. I like to toss it with fresh parsley.

Spaghetti Carbonara.

I ate chicken feet today. I don't like them one bit. It was like eating nothing but gooey chicken skin. . . The broth had good flavor.

When I began to use my smoker somebody here directed me to Amazing Ribs. This site has been a great help to me (and my friends). I have nothing but great things to say about it.

Either Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver, or Alton Brown. I'd never be able to choose so they'd have to draw straws to get to meet me.

I always bring a trail mix (containing chocolate) and beef jerky on any trip. But I've never flown to another country.

I have a lot of it growing wild in my back yard.

I've never owned a gas stove. I grew up with electric, had electric in college, and have an electric in my house now. It's fine. I'd rather have gas. And in my next house I probably will.

@soozm32. Those fiber one things don't taste so bad (just too sweet), but I feel their fiber is lacking. No matter what it says on the package nutritional information. I think they don't use the best type of fiber. So even though it sort of gives you more fiber it's not as good.

I love Tuaca. You can mix it in Red Bull. It's very tasty.

Pizza Ice cream.

If you have had a fresh made patty cooked outside on a grill until it's a little crispy and charred on the outside and slightly pink inside, leaking salty, meaty juices, lightly blanketed in melted cheese, placed on a toasty bun topped with a few rings of thick cut onion and mustard and you don't like burgers. . .

They just might not be for you. And that's OK. Eat pizza, chicken, fries until your hearts content. And if you yearn for some beef get a nice steak.

OH man! How did I miss this. My favorite plain chips are Snyder's of Berlin. And my favorite flavors are their jalepeno chips and their sea salt and vinegar chips.