Posted by: AM on: July 30, 2009
Oddly for a vegetarian, W is not keen on pasta. It’s nutritionally indistinguishable from white bread, she complains. She is bemused by the way it’s embraced by people who would look down their noses at a supermarket shopping basket full of processed white bread. But this is just a little pasta (vermicelli to be precise), [...]
Posted by: AM on: July 31, 2008
We don’t eat a lot of pasta around here, but the other day Wendy made a delicious papardelle with peas. She got the recipe from the wednesday chef, and she got it from Mario Batali. Mario is keeping quiet about where he got it, but my guess is Italian peasants, who found themselves with nothing [...]
Posted by: AM on: July 18, 2008
This is a really good pasta dish. The colour is great, strands of deep green and pale cream, and the seaweed (which is what samphire is, I think) has a bracing saltiness and goes really well with fish. And well it should. They both come out of the sea. So they should taste good together. [...]
