Simple red-sauce recipes for Italian weeknight cooking
On a recent random Tuesday, my partner and I strolled past La Pergoletta, the old-school Italian American restaurant in Los Feliz that’s a staple of the neighborhood. Remarking that we’d lived in the neighborhood for four years but still had yet to eat there, we impulsively walked in for dinner. Expecting a quiet midweek crowd, we were instead greeted by a rowdy mix of 10- and five-top tables and parties going on all around us. We ate Caesar salad, dipped crusty bread in olive oil mixed with balsamic vinaigrette, and…