Weekend Cook and Tell: Seasonal Pasta

Posted by Caroline Russock, May 27, 2009 at 1:20 PM

Welcome to this week's edition of Weekend Cook and Tell! Every Wednesday we browse through the food sections of various national newspapers and come up with an article or recipe to inspire a weekend cooking project. We want all of you to cook along with us and share your experiences, recipes, and photos.

This week's inspiration comes from the food section of The San Francisco Chronicle. Marlena Spieler shares her favorite recipes for simple, seasonal pasta dishes. She discovered in southern Italy that they her favorite pasta dishes consisted of nothing more than olive oil, a sprinkling of cheese, and what ever vegetable happened to be at the market that day. Sometimes less really is more, especially when it comes to really great produce. The article includes several 'Pasta By The Month' recipes that can be made throughout the summer as certain vegetables come into season.

This weekend we are going to be cooking up our own seasonally driven pasta dishes. The farmer's markets are absolutely brimming with exciting spring vegetables. We might have just missed the ramps and fiddlehead ferns but there are spring onions and asparagus galore just waiting to be tossed with some pasta. Seasonal vegetables and pasta are the main ingredients to this challenge but the sky is the limit. Pasta salad, pasta primavera, lasagna...

Keep us posted over the weekend and let us know what kind of pasta you are cooking up. Show us your photos on Photograzing (make sure to include "Cook and Tell" in your submission title) and tell us about your recipes in Talk with comments on this thread! If you'd like to blog along from home, leave a link to your Cook and Tell blog post in the comments. Next Wednesday we will be posting a round up of your photos and recipes. We can't wait to see what all of you are going to be cooking up over the weekend!

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