Sea bream (US: porgy, scup). A large family of firm fleshed fish which includes black sea bream, bogue, Couch’s sea bream (known as red porgy in North America), dentex, gilt-headed bream . They are usually sold weighing up to 1 kg (2 lb). All have a deep, narrow, oval body, small mouth, big eyes, quite large, tough scales, a single, spiny dorsal fin and a black spot on the shoulder. They are good to eat cooked whole, poached, stuffed and baked or braised.
"Straw and hay." Long, thin noodles of green, made with spinach, and yellow egg pasta strands, of fettuccine with egg or spinach. It is often served with a sauce of ham and peas in cream.
"Straw and hay in glutton's style." The straw and hay is pasta made in long, thin, green and yellow strands of fettucine with egg or spinach, while the gluttons apparently like a cream sauce with mushrooms and prosciutto or with peas and pancetta.
A extraordinary Roman dish of the intestines of a unweaned, milk-fed calf, filled with milk, cooked in a spiced tomato sauce and generally served with rigatoni. The resulting dish is similar to cheese in a sausage casing. It is usually plaited for serving. We ate this at the commendable Cecchino dal 1887 in Testaccio.
