Favorite Italian pasta recipe?
A question for those of you who have been to the promised land. What was the best way you had pasta prepared in Italy? Was it with a red sauce in southern Italy? A Bolognese prepared with beef, veal and pork? A primaverra in the spring? Something really tasty, regional and unique? I'm wanting to expand my pasta portfolio, so I need a new recipe to try..
Flux, how did team Saeco like their noodles? I heard that Andrea Tafi didn't put the cheese on his noodles at the end of his career as it was just too fattening..
Last night I tossed some gnocchi with some zucchinni, diced tomatoes with a pesto my sweet girl_friend! made. It was yummy. Sorry for the crummy pix. We always eat after dark..
Love,
Shino
Cantelope sauce with black pepper Tagliatelli
I've never been to Italy but this is one of my favorite summer pasta recipes, when the catelope is juicy and sweet.... It's from The Classic Pasta Cookbook by Giuliano Hazan.
Cut the rind off a cantelope, slice it into smallish chucks and throw it in a pan with enough butter to coat. Cook it down until it releases all its water and all the water evaporates (this can take a while). After the waters gone, add some cream, a little tomato paste (for color mostly) and lemon juice and lots of black pepper. Toss that with some black pepper Tagliatelli and some fresh grated Parm. mmmmm....
if you're a stickler for measurements, I can hook you up when I get home...
jimi