"You've been slippin' daddy." This is what the kids told me last night as another day passed and I did not post our latest culinary experience, and sadly, I have to admit that they are right. I've had plenty of opportunity the last few days but instead ignored our blog and left it to collect dust. Fortunately, while at work, I was doing some research on blog content and ran across a few articles that discuss this so called blog drain. It seems all bloggers (Oh my, am I referring to myself as a blogger. Never say never Mario) hit this wall and either give up or work through it. Not one to ever quit and with renewed energy I pulled my anchor of aloofness out of the sea of disenchantment and got to blogging!
Last week was the Feast of St. John the Apostle. As I perused through our Captain's log to find our next challenge I ran across a recipe by the same name. Pure kismet! St. John's Eve Pasta –
Pasta di San Giovanello (page 176) is to be enjoyed on June 24th and lo and behold it was June 24th! With the menu picked Mario and I headed out to the market to purchase our ingredients.
We found all of the ingredients except for two that we had to substitute. First, we could not find any sliced blanched almonds, but we did find blanched slivered almonds. Secondly, we could not find pappardelle pasta that looked like the photo in our Captain's log, but did find a flat version as a substitute. Once again the house filled with such great aromas as we toasted the bread crumbs and almonds, heated the anchovies, and added in the onions, garlic and tomato sauce.
Once the pasta was done we drained it and added it to the tomato sauce mixture, mixed it all together and served with a little sprinkle of the remaining bread crumbs. As all of you know by now, the key word in the previous paragraph was "Anchovies" and by now you know that Mario and I would love them and Angela and Mariesa would call the local pizzeria. But to our amazement the girls dug in and each had a serving. The comments were mixed but we all agreed that this recipe missed the mark for us.
Ciao,
Mairo & Mario
The Three Tocayos
