Mm, Seafood Pasta
Have you had Tuna Spaghetti recently? I did for lunch, and it was really good, a fresh marinara sauce with chunks of white tuna and several stalks of asparagus on top. I don't remember seeing much in the way of seafood pasta dishes in the States, but they're among my favorites here in Japan, and many restaurants offer good spaghetti alla pescatora, even your basic famires (family restaurants) like Denny's and Coco's. Living in Japan certainly makes you appreciate seafood, and I eat all kinds of things I would never have otherwise, from sushi and sashimi to miso-stewed mackerel, although I do draw the line at shio-kara, which is pickled squid intestines -- that's just going too far. There's one problem: I tend to know the names of fish in Japanese, and can even write them in kanji in some cases, but I often have no idea what the name of the fish I'm eating is in English.
posted by Peter in Japan at 8:13 PM
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So is there any seafood pasta near you? I tried googling for some in San Diego and saw a few restaurants, but I guess it's limited to high-end Italian or French restaurants?
1:36 AM
I just moved to the Oregon coast where sadly I have only found one single Japanese restaurant and I have no idea if it's any good. If I do go in there though, I'll be sure to ask about seafood pasta since that tuna spaghetti sounds delish.
2:07 AM
Well Peter,
Seafood pasta isn't terribly popular. With one well-known exception, Shrimp Alfredo. This is Shrimp, Linguine noodles and Alfredo (a white cream-based sauce) usually topped with chopped scallions as a garnish.
If you want to get some, You could go to an Olive Garden restaurant the next time you are in the States. They are a national restaurant chain and I would be surprised if they didn't have a presence in San Diego.
4:53 AM
I come from a rather Italian-American family(as do many people in the US Northeast region). I don't think seafood in your sauce isn't that exotic, in fact, it's quite liked, since it's pretty commonplace in Italian cooking as far as I know(especially if we're talking Sicilian or something near the sea). Just got a recipe for Swordfish Marinara sauce, in fact.
Besides that, I see plenty of pasta dishes involving seafood in the nicer Italian restaurants in Boston.
12:46 PM
Good morning Peter.Pruce Moose was right about seafood-pasta dishes not being that exotic(unless you live in one of the square states:))There is a couple of good itaalian resturants in my little neck of the woods(Paso Robles,Ca.)that serve shrimp and scallop linguine,as well as my favorite that has fresh cooked mussels in the shell right in the pasta.BTW,I wanted to thank you for the info on Tranzor-Z(Maringer-Z).I checked out a couple of clips I found on Youtube and boy did it take me back.There was a fansite for retro cartoons,and it included a side blog with a lot of info about the show.Everyehere else this cartoon ran for at least a year,but in my then-podunk town,it only ran for a week.This was probably due to the boob shooting robot and the fact that extremely large chunks of the show had to be edited out to save us wee ones from wanton anime violence and situations.
Keep on keeping on,
Joe.
9:29 PM
Glad they're more available than I thought. Guess it comes from living in a place that doesn't have that much seafood culture. You'd think the opposite would be true of San Diego.
11:32 AM
They have good seafood pasta at Red Lobster (and other seafood places). I tend not to eat it as much at Olive Garden because the shrimp tends to get rubbery when they make it, but they have a number of seafood pasta dishes at the Red Lobster chain.
2:25 AM
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