My favorite local mexican joint is closed for renovations, so I am making do. Also I need to find ways to use all this cilantro I'm growing. I used canned refried beans because it's a tuesday night and I refuse to exert myself, and because I am out of sour cream to thicken them with I stuck a big spoonful of the dill-ranch cucumber spread (which is what I used up the sour cream making) and tbh it's...super good??? I did not expect that to actually pan out.
Also no one is allowed to judge me for the number of limes. I love limes. I will literally squeeze a lime onto a taco and then eat it like I'm taking shots, with bites of lime between bites of taco. I will eat limes whole with little to no provocation.
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Hot Pasta alla Vodka (Vegetarian)
This spicy, creamy and warming Hot Pasta alla Vodka makes a deliciously comforting lunch, especially when you've caught a bit of a chill! Happy Tuesday!
Ingredients (serves 2):
2 cups short pasta (like orecchiette)
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 large onion
1/3 red chili pepper
a generous bunch Garden Parsley
3 large Whole Peeled Tomatoes+ 1/3 cup of their juice
1 tablespoon Hot Pepper Sauce
a pinch of fleur de sel or sea salt flakes and freshly cracked black pepper, to taste
5 tablespoons good quality Vodka
½ tablespoon caster sugar
half a dozen large leaves Garden Basil
½ cup double cream
Parmesan Cheese
In a pot of salted boiling water, cook orecchiette according to package’s direction, usually 9 to 11 minutes until al dente.
While the pasta is cooking, heat olive oil in a large, deep, nonstick skillet over medium heat.
Finely chop the onion and stir into the skillet. Cook, a couple of minutes until softened.
Thinly slice red chili pepper, and add to the skillet; cook, 1 minute more.
Finely chop Parsley, and stir into the skillet as well.
Roughly chop Whole Peeled Tomatoes, and stir them into the skillet, along with their juice. Increase heat to medium-high, and simmer, 4 minutes, stirring often. Stir in Hot Pepper Sauce. Season with salt and black pepper, to taste. Then, stir in Vodka and caster sugar.
Finely chop Basil, and stir half into the sauce. Simmer, a couple of minutes more, then add double cream. Allow to reduce and thicken a little, 2 minutes.
Then, drain orecchiette, saving 1/3 cup of its starchy water. Stir both into the skillet, coating the pasta in sauce. Grate in about ¼ cup Parmesan. Give a gentle stir until the sauce beautifully coats the pasta.
Serve Hot Pasta alla Vodka, sprinkled with remaining fresh Basil, topped with freshly grated Parmesan, hot, with a glass of chilled dry white wine, like a light and citrus-y Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc.
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every so often i do a full folklore relisten and ill be real here epiphany will always be my least listened to track exclusively because it actually does make 2020/21 news reels play through my head in a way that i cannot allow in daily life. like it starts and i remember reading the worlds worst headlines and then making do with the council rations we had left on the doorstep and it actually does feel like that was a different lifetime n i genuinely struggle to know how ppl just listen to it on the reg
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Working on peeling the Roma tomatoes
1. Wash
2. Dump them in BOILING water for 1 minute
3. Take them out of boiling water and dump them in ICE water
4. Their skin will slip off beautifully
8/26/22
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Hello ! After days of reading about it i finally followed and tried making shakshouka ! A friend was really stressed about her exam next week so i told her to come eat at my place and sent my brother at the grocery shop for the ingredients. I had to peal the tomatoes myself because i hadn't been clear enough on the ingredients list but ! Honestly worth it, it was excellent and i will be making it again.
AAAA THAT'S SO COOL, THE FOOD LOOKS GREAT TOO!!!! I am glad you enjoyed it, and I wish your friend good luck on her exam~
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