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Last week I tried a recipe called Spaghetti as the Coalman’s Wife Makes It: Spaghetti alla Carbonara. Even managed to get egg yolk into the middle of the dish, haha. The spaghetti I’ve had has always had a tomato sauce on it, so this was a new experience. And I loved the taste, I think it really turned out well.

The real revelation for me was the pancetta. I live less than 2 miles from an Italian deli, and the pancetta was excellent, made the dish for me. It’s got a good strong flavor to it, as does the Parmigiano Reggiano cheese. I had bought some authentic P.R. cheese before, but it was hard as a rock and the taste left something to be desired. The cheese I bought from the Deli, Boar’s Head, was great though, and will definitely be the kind I pick up in the future…

And the dish as a whole, it’s definitely going to become a regular meal for me, something I do once a month or even every couple of weeks, depending how often I decide to splurge on the pancetta. Not much of a splurge though, the price was really reasonable. Less than $3.50 for 8 ounces!