And I harken back to them in these dark days of nightfall by 5.50pm and ready-made lasagne from Woolworths (dudes, R49.95 for 1kg! That's totally the perfect yoga-night supper right there. But I digress ...).
So here goes, a quick foodie retrospective, and possibly really, and this time truly, the simplest, easiest pasta ever!
Caprese Pasta
At least a couple of hours before you want to eat this (can be 24, can be 2), chop up a punnet of cherry or baby roma tomatoes, cube a medium size block of hard white cheese (edam, tussers etc) and a handful of sweet basil and mix it all together with some good glugs of olive oil, salt & pepper. Leave to marinade.
When you're ready to nosh, cook up some pasta shapes, reserve a leetle bit of the cooking water, chuck the tomato mix in with the hot pasta and (leetle bit of) water, and eat immediately.
The hot pasta wilts the tomatoes (which've already soften in the marinading process) and just melts the cheese to a soft and chewy consistency.
Can be optionally served with anchovy & caper buttered crostini. 'Cos we're all about carb-on-carb action in this house.
It's summer in a bowl ~ a beautiful thing.
And incidentally, no. twentyfrikkinsix, 'cos Julochka's totally lapping me on this 100 things malarkey and soon I'm going to have to start counting particularly good cups of tea to get my numbers up!
4 comments:
Yum, pasta is my favorite food - I had an Italian great grandmother...
i'm making this tonight. the tomatoes are starting to taste like tomatoes again and less like reddish-colored bits of styrofoam.
bear in mind, i'm coming into summer and you're coming into winter, so you're cool on the 100...tho' it's good to know i'm winning, don't get me wrong. ;-)
ok, seriously, speaking of carbs, new WV word after my other comment posted: BREAD!
I made this on the weekend! It's that time of year . . .
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