Jonezing for Cioppino
27 Sep 2008 Leave a Comment
I love cioppino. Once in a while I will order it at a restaurant where the chef will decide to get creative, and will experiment with the sauce. Usually this leads to disaster. Once, at The Valley River Inn in Eugene, Oregon, I had the misfortune of ordering Cioppino and the broth portion was dark, as if it was a Mole sauce, and it tasted like sewage. Nasty! Only God knows what he/she put it in, but I simply could not eat it. Another time, at Georgies, what is considered a good restaurant in Newport, Oregon, I ordered my Cioppino and it had the distinctive flavor of Campbell’s Vegetable Soup. How smart of that chef to use a pre-made, 59-cent can of soup for his or her high-end meal!
When I am jonezing for Cioppino and don’t want to spend a fortune to either make it or to go to a restaurant, I head for Trader Joes’ frozen aisle, where they sell a pretty decent Cioppino for about 6.00/1 large serving. Not too bad, if you have to have it.
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