For last night’s dinner, I’ll refer you to Last Night’s Dinner, a wonderful food blog I’ve been reading. Jennifer has a great post and recipe for orecchiette pasta with sausage and broccoli rabe. Cauli and I used the last of the sausage we had bought at the Farmer’s Market – wild boar with apple and cranberries. Using broccoli rabe that we bought at this week’s farmer’s market, and laboring over tiny little pasta shapes, we had a wonderfully flavorful dinner. The only modifications to her recipe were that we used garlic instead of green garlic and omitted the cheese because we didn’t have any.
Making the orecchiette pasta was a pain in the ass. It took two episodes of Big Love to roll, cut, and shape those “little ears.” I still like the idea of making my own pasta, but perhaps next time I’ll use our handy-dandy pasta roller.
“Speak up!” say the little ears.
It might have been a pain to do, but judging from the photo, your orecchiette look lovely! Thanks for the shout-out!
Thanks Jennifer! It was a fantastic recipe, and my husband and I really enjoyed it!
excuse me, but, you didn’t have any cheese?! that’s simply sacrilegious!
Well, we have cheese…but it’s moldy. And not in the good way.
I can’t believe you made homemade pasta AFTER work. I am super impressed. Did you have an easier time than I did when I tried to make you fresh pasta?
That was dinner on Sunday night.
I could never do all that after work!