Our first weed pasta.

It was very good, even without the psychotropic stuff.

• eight ounces from a box of Sfoglini hemp reginetti, boiled until just before it would have become al dente, drained and tossed into a large antique high-sided copper pot in which 5 small Rocambole garlic cloves from Keith’s Farm, lightly smashed, and a few inches from a small stalk of celery from Philipps Farms, cut into thin sections, had been sautéed in a little olive oil until softened, the pasta mix stirred over a pretty high flame, along with at least half of a cup of reserved pasta water, until the liquid had emulsified, the chopped leaves from the celery stalk then tossed in and the reginetti served in shallow bowls, a couple handfuls of sunflower sprouts from Windfall Farms tossed around the edges, the pasta sprinkled with toasted rye breadcrumbs, a little olive drizzled on top of the sprouts
• the wine was an Italian (Sicily) white, Centopassi ‘Terre Rosse di Giabbascio’ Catarratto  2017, from Astor Wines
• the music was a 1990 recording of Rossini’s last opera, composed in 1829, fully 39 years before his death, ‘Guillaume Tell’, Lamberto Gardelli conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Ambrosian Opera Chorus, with Jocelyne Taillon, Gabriel Bacquier, Nicolai Gedda, Monserrat Caballé, Louis Hendrikx, Gwynne Howell, Kolos Kováts, Charles Burles, Leslie Fyson, Mady Mesplé, Nicholas Christou, and Riccardo Cassinelli