Tag Archives: pasta

Sardines pasta Sicilian style (?)

12 Apr

So tired today – traveled for 6 hours straight. D said, “but you only sit on the bus!” – um, that’s the tiring part!!

When I’m tired, I lose my appetite too. For dinner today I just wanted something simple, something that even though I have no appetite I’d still want to eat (ok-that might make no sense, but you still understand, right? right…?) I had a tin of sardines in olive oil, and looked up a bunch of sardines pasta recipes. Apparently in Sicily – according to Mario Batali & Emeril Lagasse, and maybe Rachel Ray – you make a straightforward pasta dish with sardines, olive oil, and bread crumbs/cheese (you can find these recipes easily on foodnetwork.com). But I didn’t feel like putting that much stuff in my dinner, so my pasta ended up being just sardines + parsley + + garlic + olive oil. But it tasted good! So, here we go, “recipe”:

Ingredients:

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Roe kimchi udon aka Asian pasta

31 Mar

Mentaiko kimchi udon

recipe credit to momofukufor2.com

I stumbled upon the recipe, and tried it out (without using any particular measurement; it was pretty easy just eyeballing it). It was great! The tiny fish eggs on the udon look (and taste a bit) like grated cheese, making the whole dish look very Italian-pasta-ish. It was super easy & fast to make, too.

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