Taste

Is it me, or are restaurants not using spices and are making their food bland? When I go to an Italian restaurant, I expect to taste Oregano, garlic, basil and all the other spices that Italians use in their sauces ans marinara. Today, I ate at a pizza restaurant and had calzone with marinara sauce; thought the calzone was okay, the marinara sauce is a lot to be desired. It was like the chef or cook just opened a can of diced tomatoes, added a few onions and then heated up the sauce calling it marinara sauce. I just want to go back in the kitchen and show them how to make a good sauce. I guess we are so spoiled from an Italian Restaurant in Garland, Texas. Now this was REAL Italian Food, for the owner was an Italian who knew how to use all the spices. I guess if I want good Italian food, I will have to make it myself.

However, there is a good pizza place that I found here in Jacksonville that makes great pizza. I have tried their eggplant parmesan and it was pretty good.

I will keep looking for a good Italian Restaurant, and maybe I will become a food critic.

Until next time.