/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15456830
It's just not carbonara then. Having eaten both, what is the carbonara, and what is the British version, with cream, but without peas (I think they normally add it, but not then), I have to say the original is way better and a completely different thing from the cream one. British version is only preferable if you genuinely have shit-tier eggs, no grated cheeses and you're using bacon, like in your photo. But if you have pecorino cheese (and grana/parma as most Italians do 50/50), nice eggs with good yolks, and good guanciale (or pancetta, which is what 90% of Italians will use since it's easier to find and the best substitute, arguably some people prefer it because it has less fat, imho guanciale is better BECAUSE of the fat), the carbonara doesn't need any cream, peas, garlic, hot chili, golden flakes, chicken, or whatever the hell Angloids put into it. I always suggest people just to call it cream and peas, which is a perfectly fine name, rather than "carbonara", which is plain misleading and nothing like what the real thing is supposed to be. You can argue about semantics of what a recipe is for thousand years, but they're nothing alike, and your insistence on using an Italian name for an Italian dish that isn't actually Italian, nor cooked anything like the original, is pretty retarded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaPdEPl5gdI
My favourite version. :^]
>>15456382
Pizette are very common in Italy. Those don't even look bad, just take off the corn. Grill the corn instead, it's much better.