dinner, April 17, 2010

  • orecchiette (using a package of Bartolini Emilio, from Umbria, purchased from Garden of Eden), boiled, drained, then added to a deep pan in which the rest of the ingredients had already been prepared:  a mixture of chopped uncured smoked duck bacon from D’Artagnan (also purchased from Garden of Eden), crumbled dry hot pepper, garlic, and some oil, chopped broccoli rabe from Migliorelli Farm at the Union Square Greenmarket, all sauteed together and, when mixed and stirred with the pasta and an addition of a considerable amount of pasta cooking water, blended with a generous amount of shredded Locatelli Romano D.O.C. cheese
  • wine:  Italian Abruzzo, Montepulciano, a Cantina Zaccagnini Montepulciano d’Abruzzo 2006, purchased from Philippe Wine