Father/daughter team action last Saturday with making the spaghetti vongole (clammed spaghetti). A friend of mine recently told me she had a serious weakness for vongole and I had no idea what that was. Looked it up on internet and found this video and it looked easy peasy. Not much ingredients: clams, white wine, garlic, olive oil, parsley, cherry tomatoes, salt and pepper. Anika took command of making the spaghetti and did that 100% on her own producing perfect al dente spaghetti, couldn't have done it better myself. She also helped chop up some of the cherry tomatoes in half. If had to change anything I'd add more garlic, and also heard its amazing with the canned Italian anchovies. Probably the best pasta dish I've ever made in my life, but its a really low base comparison as most the pasta I've made was spaghetti with Ragu poured over it, but recently I've been using this Japanese pasta sauce (First picture on top). Mendaiko pasta sauce. Warning though, most people, especially non-Japanese, would not like it.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Vongole with Anika
Father/daughter team action last Saturday with making the spaghetti vongole (clammed spaghetti). A friend of mine recently told me she had a serious weakness for vongole and I had no idea what that was. Looked it up on internet and found this video and it looked easy peasy. Not much ingredients: clams, white wine, garlic, olive oil, parsley, cherry tomatoes, salt and pepper. Anika took command of making the spaghetti and did that 100% on her own producing perfect al dente spaghetti, couldn't have done it better myself. She also helped chop up some of the cherry tomatoes in half. If had to change anything I'd add more garlic, and also heard its amazing with the canned Italian anchovies. Probably the best pasta dish I've ever made in my life, but its a really low base comparison as most the pasta I've made was spaghetti with Ragu poured over it, but recently I've been using this Japanese pasta sauce (First picture on top). Mendaiko pasta sauce. Warning though, most people, especially non-Japanese, would not like it.
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