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penne

  • Anytime Pasta with Scallions, Peas, and Parmesan

    Anytime Pasta with Scallions, Peas, and Parmesan

    Pour one out, if you will, for the imported Italian bowl that you see above: I bought it on eBay a few years ago, it was my pride and joy, and yesterday — after doing the dishes — I was putting ramekins away high up in a cabinet and one of them fell and broke…

  • Penne with Bacon and Flageolet Beans

    Penne with Bacon and Flageolet Beans

    What’s with me and pasta? No, seriously, I’m really asking: how can I eat so much of it and never get tired of it? Sometimes I think it’s my own personal Rosebud, because my earliest food-related memories involve sitting at a little yellow plastic table on a gray carpet in front of the big TV,…

  • Penne with Ramp Pesto, Asparagus & Peas

    Penne with Ramp Pesto, Asparagus & Peas

    I’ll admit, I get lazy when it comes to eating seasonally. It’s easier to pop into the grocery store across the street, where lemons, onions and garlic look the same the whole year round, than it is to march all the way up to the Union Square Greenmarket on a windy or rainy spring day.…

  • Nick and Toni’s Penne Alla Vecchia Bettola

    Nick and Toni’s Penne Alla Vecchia Bettola

    Once, long ago, I found the following statement on someone else’s food blog: “I’m sick of The Amateur Gourmet, all he cooks is pasta.” I usually let such cutting criticism roll off me, but this–like a piece of wet spaghetti thrown at the refrigerator–stuck. I haven’t stopped cooking pasta (not by any means: it’s my…

  • Penne with Broccoli Rabe

    Penne with Broccoli Rabe

    Broccoli rabe is usually the first thing I buy at the farmer’s market when the weather gets warmer. It’s a transitional vegetable: something that bridges us from the dark and murky vegetables of winter to the bright and sprightly vegetables of summer. Raw, it tastes rather fresh and green, but cooked, it takes on all…