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Roasted Cherry Tomato Carbonara
On Monday night this week, and purely by chance, Ryan and I made the best pasta dish for dinner – Half Baked Harvest’s Roasted Cherry Tomato Carbonara. Last week, Ryan came home from the grocery store with three pints of cherry tomatoes. (He had misread a recipe that required a 1/3 of a pint of tomatoes when putting together a grocery list.) Needless to say, we had a lot of leftover cherry tomatoes, so when this pasta recipe fortuitously showed up in Half Baked Harvest’s Instagram feed (@halfbakedharvest) late last week I got really excited! The only ingredient I needed for the recipe was burrata (who loves burrata cheese as much…
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Making Pasta With Kids
A few years ago to celebrate Ryan’s 40th birthday, we attended a cookery school outside of Venice through Stirred Travel. We stayed in an Italian villa and learned Italian cooking (and eating!) while sipping on spritzes, red wines and Proseccos of the Veneto. It was an extraordinary trip; I cannot recommend it enough. When we got home with dreams of fresh pasta still in our heads, I recommended my parents get Ryan a pasta maker for his birthday (here’s the one we got) so we could replicate our Italian experience. Unfortunately, the pasta maker has remained in the box since because #time #noitalianspritzes. But when you are stuck in the…
