![]() Cook the pasta for 2 minutes less than the box’s recommended cooking time – not quite al dente. ![]() Bring some water to a boil in the pot and add a generous handful of salt.Heck, linguine or fettuccine would be fine as well. Penne pasta is a great and fun shape here, but rigatoni, or other medium sized dried pastas would be great. You can also use deli ham, speck or cubes of ham steak instead. You can leave it out completely, just add more salt to taste at the end. If you don’t like blue cheese or have any available, you could substitute some soft goat cheese Substitutionsīlue cheese is perfect in this dish because it easily melts and a little goes a long way. It’s a pasta dream team that comes together in about 30 minutes. The lemon zest add a brightness that contrasts with the swirls of tender prosciutto added right before serving. The mild blue cheese combines with cream and sauteed garlic to form an instant flavorful and slightly piquant sauce. There are nearly equal parts tender crisp asparagus and pasta which is a ratio I prefer for a respectable one dish meal (no decorative vegetables, please). Why It Works This pasta’s not playing – we’re equal parts pasta and asparagus I went home and gathered the ingredients to recreate it and was pleasantly surprised that my version was just as good! Facts. Young me was intrigued and it did not disappoint. Blue cheese in a pasta sauce? How exotic. It was a work lunch and my first time having these flavors together. I came up with this recipe over a decade ago after eating a similar pasta special at a restaurant, Il Fornaio, in the SF Bay peninsula. I find cooking to be a great release and restoring when things feel like – just. There’s a lot going on – trying to live my best Covid life in a US epicenter, starting a new job (yay!) and now processing and responding to the unrest and discourse sparked by the latest videoed examples of egregious racial injustice in America. While I’m always in the kitchen trying new things, posting has been a real struggle for me this season. *Real talk, I wrote 90% of this post nearly 2 months ago for spring. ![]() Yet, it’s somehow so much more than the sum of it’s parts. First cause it’s delicious, secondly because it’s so quick and easy! It’s a simple dish – most of the ingredients are in the long title. This springy* pasta dish always makes me smile. A quick and satisfying bowl of pasta JUMP TO THE RECIPE JUMP TO THE PHOTO GUIDE My San Francisco Treat
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