When a good friend asked me last week what my favorite pasta was, I thought immediately that it is spaghetti. For sauce my number one is anchovy and garlic oil, close second is puttanesca. Pesto and Marinara are tied at third.
I told her that I remember feeling down when I found out that one of the cafes that I frequent stopped serving squid ink marinara. Suddenly, I don't feel like eating their new marinara anymore. It doesn't taste (and look) as much as coming from the sea with the standard linguine as it did with squid ink spaghetti.
Incidentally, another friend who attended a pasta making class told me that the chef taught them two variations, one was with spinach and the other with, you guessed it! Squid ink.
These two incidents got me thinking about making squid ink pasta. So I searched high and low for squid in where I live. NOT EASY.
After securing the coveted ingredient I made pasta dough.
The dough was so dark and so rich that I could not help but laugh like an evil queen.
I would have wanted to make spaghetti, but for some reason the idea of black velvet ribbons changed my mind.
My husband loved the texture and managed to eat three servings. I struggled to stop at a serving and I half--but a girl has got to do what a girl has got to do :)
I still have packets of Squid Ink, I am thinking of other fun pasta projects I could do with those.
I told her that I remember feeling down when I found out that one of the cafes that I frequent stopped serving squid ink marinara. Suddenly, I don't feel like eating their new marinara anymore. It doesn't taste (and look) as much as coming from the sea with the standard linguine as it did with squid ink spaghetti.
Incidentally, another friend who attended a pasta making class told me that the chef taught them two variations, one was with spinach and the other with, you guessed it! Squid ink.
These two incidents got me thinking about making squid ink pasta. So I searched high and low for squid in where I live. NOT EASY.
After securing the coveted ingredient I made pasta dough.
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| What lies beneath? |
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| hung |
I would have wanted to make spaghetti, but for some reason the idea of black velvet ribbons changed my mind.
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| happily eaten after |
My husband loved the texture and managed to eat three servings. I struggled to stop at a serving and I half--but a girl has got to do what a girl has got to do :)
I still have packets of Squid Ink, I am thinking of other fun pasta projects I could do with those.
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