The Simplest of Pasta (spaghetti with a Neruda – 117 years – tomato sauce)
‘…the tomato,
star of earth, recurrent
and fertile…’
Pablo Neruda
Is it the figs you miss, or the people attached to them in memory? Prosciutto and Melon (or figs) big flavor, small price (June menu 2).
But one important smell, for me, that you can find here as well as in hotter, more southern blue places: fig tree. I was surprised to find out: in my hick-ignorance I thought they’d be a rarity. Instead they’re all over – as they should be. One of the easiest, hardiest trees to plant and grow.
literary recipe: Dan Brown’s Travel Pasta with Butter, Sage and Ricotta
“That was really, really close,” you adroitly say after you’ve escaped by running through a mysterious antique ruin that just happened to have a store of the special butter made from the milk of cows fed exclusively on a rare flower that grows only on one particular European hillside that you were looking for. Eureka!
Big Flavors, Small Price (June meal poll): Spaghettoni with Fresh Goat Cheese
t’s nearly always a balance, almost a dance – an equilibrium, a playing, contrast and synchrony, surprise and familiarity. Cooking that is, organizing a plate, adjusting for salt and sweet, umami and creamy, crunch and mushy and heat and bite and…
literary recipe: Allen Ginsburg’s Howling Espresso Pasta. With Mushrooms. (Rest in howling peace.)
…for more literary recipes: on sale – The Pasta Papers vl. 1 “…and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?” A Supermarket …
Small Price, Big Flavor: Penne with scampi without the scampi
….long sigh. Tough times, lots of people around Italy and elsewhere don’t have much cash, ‘no tengo dinero’, not in small part because a …
Pasta Noir – Happy Birthday Ricky: Wagner’s National German Pasta (with sausage and broccoli)
by Susan Cook-Abdallah “Freshly blows the wind homewards…” Tristan und Isolde act 1, sc. 1 Ingredients: For the Pasta: Barley Water Salt Schnapps For …
May meal quiz: Which cheap but full-flavored meal would you prefer?
So, it appears a friend and I have started a bit of an adventure here on WP: food. In many of its forms. We’d like …
Big Flavors, Small Price – Tiramisu
Genius: very clever or original. Tiramisu is a genius Italic dessert. I challenge you to find a person, literally one, who doesn’t like it, or …
Big Flavors, Small Price – Risotto With Asparagus
Welcome to our first column – Big Flavors, Small Price. It’s a rough time this year. For most of us, anyway. We’ve all sacrificed. Some …