Gran's Best

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Basic Spaghetti

August 9, 2018 Gran

I love pasta and at least every week or two spaghetti with tomato sauce shows up on our dinner table. My go-to tomato sauce is based on an old Cooks Illustrated recipe for Spaghetti Puttanesca from March & April 2002. Since Grandpa is a vegetarian, we don't put meat in the … [Read more...]

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Lemon Spaghetti

July 19, 2018 Gran

This marvelous dish from Christopher Kimball's Milk Street seems so simple, but one forkful and you will be gurgling with pleasure. 5 tablespoons butter, divided 8 medium garlic cloves, minced 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes 3/4 cup dry white wine 12 ounces spaghetti or … [Read more...]

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Spaghetti alla Siracusa

May 7, 2017 Gran

Adapted from Gourmet, February 1971. Another recipe contributed by Judy Hallman to my culinary education during the years at the UNC Computation Center, 1973-75. 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced 3 cups peeled diced tomatoes (or 1 large can diced tomatoes with juice) 1 small … [Read more...]

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Sparky Mushroom-Fennel Spaghetti

April 23, 2017 Gran

Excellent vegetarian pasta sauce that doesn't include tomatoes.  An orginal Gran recipe. 1/2 yellow onion, diced 3 garlic cloved, minced 2 small or 1 large fennel bulbs, medium diced 8 ounces mushrooms, sliced 1 red bell pepper, medium diced 2 tablespoons mascarpone … [Read more...]

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Linguine with White Clam Sauce

December 29, 2016 Gran

Bill Buford's story in the September 6, 2004 issue of The New Yorker, "The Pasta Station", includes directions for making pasta with clams at home. I love this dish and whenever we find some nice fresh Cherrystone Aqua-Farms clams from the Eastern Shore of Virginia, we make it. … [Read more...]

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