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Pasta with Fresh Goat Cheese

...that pretty much covers it...
Prep Time 14 d
Cook Time 16 mins
Course first courses
Cuisine Italian
Servings 2

Ingredients
  

  • 200 grams spaghettoni or other long noodle rummo brand or other
  • 100 grams fresh goat cheese caprino
  • 1 grated lemon rind untreated skin
  • 40-/+ grams Parmigiano Reggiano grated ...or any aged cheese you like. Mix and match
  • some prosciutto fat or guanciale rendered in a cold pan, then low heat
  • some (2-3tbls) fresh scallion leg chopped fine to taste
  • salt and pepper to taste pepper is important here, fresh ground. Could get fancy-ish and seperate the husks from the seed by hand-smashing in a motar and filtering. Nah. Careful on the salt.
  • 3 tabls. breadcrumbs, good quality. toasted in a warm-to-hot pan, a drop of oil or two.
  • 5-8 leaves not too old basil
  • 1 pat unsalted butter. optional like most ingredients in such am asembled dish

Notes

...one-two-three. First, toast the bread crumbs in a pan - over medium low heat - be sure to move them around nicely with a wooden spoon or whatever you prefer ujntil they've turned a crunchy gold hue. Twist the noodles into abundant hot water salted a bit less than usual. Meanwhile place the sliced pig fat into a cold pan on lowest heat to render its fat. Meanwhile shove all the ingredients into a big mixing bowl, cheese, lemon, basil, etc. You can change anything or add - it's the balance that counts. Remove any remaining chunks of crspy fat or meat from the pan once the fat has rendered and place aside to dry - you can sprinkle over once plated. Now add some of the pasta's cooking water (when the pasta is almost don, as it should be by then,) just a tablespoon or so at a time, and twirl it into the fat to make an emulsion. Also add a little to the ingredients in the mixing bowl and mix them all together.You can turn off the pasta a minute or two to let it finish its cooking, then transfer the noodles into the emulsion and toss. You can drain or simply lift them out of the pan. Heat high a few moments as you toss until the pasta begins to get creamy from the starch being released. 
   If you drain the pasta, make sure to keep a cup of the cooking water just in case. Turn off the heat, add the noodles to the flavorings in the bowl and mix well.  Lovely dish, intoxicating flavors, always good, fine with a white wine appropriate to whatever variation you're making, and cheaper than anything even at a Mcdonald's menu. 
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