Category Archives: pasta

Poblano lasagne

It is pepper season; the vegetable gardens are bursting with all kinds of peppers, hatch peppers, green peppers, poblanos, chilis etc. This is a spinach lasagne layered with a poblano/chicken broth/cream sauce; interspersed with chicken and mushroom bits and sprinkled with shredded cheese. Since this is a project, it is easy to split it up [...]
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Labneh and butternut squash sauce for pasta

  This is a very easy sauce to make. The contrast between the sweetness of the squash and the onions and the sour taste of labneh or yogurt is (in my mind) pleasant. The texture is rich and creamy, yet the sauce is light (especially if you make the labneh with fat-free Greek yogurt). INGREDIENTS: [...]
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Handkerchief pasta (Fazzoletti)

I was having a discussion with Chef Luca Paris during his radio show and the topic of pasta came up; I told him that there has been some evidence pointing to pasta having first been made by the Arabs; his quip was “Maybe, but the Italians perfected it!”. No argument there. This pasta, called fazzoletti, [...]
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