Pasta Puttanesca

Happy New Year all!  Hard to believe 2012 is here, time flies...Now that everybody's recouped from the holidays it's time to get down to some soups, stews, casseroles, and pasta dishes.  Normal stuff.  This one's my favorite puttanesca of all that's out there, I don't even remember where I picked it up but I've never found one to equal it.  It's chunky and bold and just spicy enough!

FROM THE DINER'S JOURNAL: "Ostensibly a sauce invented and made by prostitutes, it is said that pasta puttanesca was designed to lure customers with its aroma. Other explanations have more appeal to the minimalist cook: that the prostitutes were too busy to cook much, or that they had no storage for fresh ingredients and cooked entirely from the pantry. My favorite legend has it that it was a favorite not of prostitutes, but of women who wanted to serve a quick meal at home in order to move on to other things. Whatever the origin, no better wintertime pasta sauce has come down to us."

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