21 October 2011
A Bit of a Departure...
So, while looking through the sale items on Fresh Direct I saw, "Fresh Egg Fettuccine." Well...it sounded too good not to buy....forget that I don't know what I want to serve it with...
I do this a lot lately. There are weekly "President's Picks" emails that I go through and pop anything that looks good into my shopping cart then make up dishes based on what I've chosen or have in my kitchen already to add. I also do this with the "local" section for produce...
In this particular case, I had some frozen spinach in the freezer and then "olives," "lemon," and "goat cheese" popped into my head. So that's exactly what I did. I found a good deal on Moroccan olives and then added some lemons and goat cheese to the basket.
I cooked the spinach and olives with the zest and juice of one lemon and 1 clove of garlic, sliced.
When the pasta was done (fresh pasta cooks so blessedly fast, too!) I drained it and mixed with the olive/spinach mix...then folded in my desired amount of goat cheese.
If I did this again, I would use yogurt cheese since it's lighter.
I ended up mixing some homemade yogurt with it anyway...and went back and added some sliced baby bella mushrooms I'd cooked in a wee bit of olive oil and herbs de provence.
Delish!!!
XO