Amatriciana sauce Puns

Hello All! We have a favorite pasta sauce in the family, that has for a long time been known as Arrabiata. ...It is however chock full of bacon.

A friend of the family suggested that perhaps the name we were looking for was Amatriciana, as some variations use bacon instead of guanciale.

...but I don't think I've ever been served amatriciana with the distinct sear of Birdseye chilis.

Is there a third sauce out there somewhere that corresponds to my Arrabiata with bacon or Amatriciana with dried chili?

Am I just over thinking this? (Yes.)

Please enlighten me!

Are there any Italian restaurants in Columbus that do a proper Amatriciana sauce? The dish might be called "alla amatriciana" It's a tomato sauce made with pancetta (or pork jowl if you're really authentic) with a little red pepper, sometimes a pinch of pecorino, and spices. It's a bright, sauce with a nice tang. (Not to be confused with Arrabbiata , which uses olive oil) . It's easy to find on the east coast but I have a hard time finding it here.

I have half a kilo of guanciale. I absolutely adore spaghetti carbonara, so I'll use some for that. I will also make amatriciana. But I'd like some variation, so what else can I do with it? Something Italian would be nice. Any other pasta dishes? The taste is fantastic, but it's too fatty for me to eat more than a small bite uncooked.

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I made pasta all'amatriciana for the first time last night. I used bucatini and cured pork jowl. Sauce was just diced onion (sweated in olive oil for a bit) and half a can of cento san marzano peeled tomatoes, hand-crushed. The result was deliciously flavored but gf and I both agreed a tad greasy. Still yummy, but just a little too ... unctuous?

I imagine this effect comes from the jowl, since it appears to be mostly fat. Is the solution as simple as pouring off some of the fat after the jowl has cooked? Will I lose too much flavor that way? Or possibly don't use any olive oil? (Not sure olive oil is necessary anyway, since the jowl provides so much fat by itself.)

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I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

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r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

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Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

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