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Dinner Tonight: Spaghetti with Rosemary

Posted by Nick Kindelsperger, January 25, 2008

I’ve explored a few recipes from The Silver Spoon with varying degrees of success. The ricotta and spinach gnocchi were delicious, but a roast chicken with apples was a complete disaster. I’m not sure why I was trying these recipes, when what I really wanted to do was rampage through the pasta section. That was, in fact, the main reason why I ever wanted the book.

And what a section it is. It is stuffed with unique ideas, which seem at once exotic and also incredibly simple. That’s exactly where this recipe falls. The rosemary and tomato seemed harmless enough, but the addition of flour and water felt a little like cheating to add body. But is actually just the perfect vehicle to help that rosemary sauce cling to every single noodle. It makes what looks like a little bit of sauce stretch over an entire box of pasta. Scoring some great pasta to coat with that sauce also helps. I picked mine up at a local Italian importer and can’t see myself ever going back to the old pasta again.

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