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...]
Lemon Spaghetti
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...]
Spaghetti alla Siracusa
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...]
Sparky Mushroom-Fennel Spaghetti
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...]
Linguine with White Clam Sauce
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...]