Can you imagine…homemade pasta, fresh from the hands of your loved one – tossed in a rosemary infused lemon mustard brown butter sauce? Well, stop trying to imagine…the effort is over. Only a small bit of labor and the salubrious celebration can begin. YUM! So, remember how amazingly simple – yet slightly complicated – handmade…
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It’s been quite some time since I’ve had FRESH orecchiette pasta. In fact, I do believe it’s been close to 25 years since I was first introduced to the sensual mouthfeel and salubrious texture of these “ear shaped” pieces of pasta perfection. Orecchiette (Italian pronunciation: [orekˈkjɛtte]; singular orecchietta; from Italianorecchia, meaning “ear”, and -etta, meaning “small”) is a variety of home-made pasta typical…
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It seemed like there was a phase in the cooking world, and maybe it’s still happening, when vodka pasta sauce was the freakin’ bee’s knees. It was the sexiest thing you could do to pasta. But here’s the problem with vodka sauce: Good vodka is specifically engineered to be tasteless. IT HAS NO FLAVOR. So…
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Homemade pasta continues to baffle with its beauty. We make it bright and cold, and fill plates cuts and curls of color. And flavor too. I had an interesting time playing with the colors and the light. As gabby girls do, we talked and tangoed amidst the clocks in the kitchen, passing away the time…from…
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