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Tip: Authentic Italian pasta recipes never use cream. Generally your "creamy" sauces are made with either cheese & butter, or raw eggs.

Tip: If you need chopped dry sun-dried tomatoes, freeze them in a ziplock bag and then pound them with a mallet.

Tip: If you have a recipe which requires a lot of fresh basil, dill, oregano, or other leafy green herb, and you can't get it, try substituting the dried herb plus some minced parsley.

Seems less like a tip and more like someone telling me my alfredo is not "authentic."
Maybe a good idea for another thread?

the way I heard the creation story, cream was used, so you should be in the clear, Darcie

Perhaps it's not common, but I understand they do use cream in Rome. Don't know where Alfredo was from, but he used cream in his sauce.
fitzie

Rhetorical tautology.

IIRC, he was in Rome

pasta alla panna is made by many Italians....recipes like this one:
http://www.ideericette.it/ricetta-farfa ... o-e-panna/

Fettucine Alfredo has cheese and butter. No cream.

Huh. Now that's a new one on me. Wonder how good it is?

For that tip, I was thinking of Alfredo, Pasta Vongole and Pasta alla Carbonara, which are often incorrectly made by Americans using cream.

You should see what some people do to real chili!!! Sinful...

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