Thought for Food

nadia-muses:

orecchiette in feta sauce, with roasted turkey and sun-dried tomatoes: fear not the white pasta! show it love with feta and tender roasted turkey. this dish makes people smile - i’ve seen it!

We eat no pasta in our home. M. keeps that girlish figure with a strict regimen of lean proteins, grilled vegetables, and Kettle chips. The man is a slut for Kettle chips. I like to keep my sugars and carbs where I can see them: homemade chocolate chip cookies (or these).* However something like this — where the pasta is almost a condiment — looks appealing. The only problem is that M. is a purist: he insists that if pasta is on the offing it be the star, as the Italians do. Sigh. You can’t please a slut and a purist. (For more on pasta-as-condiment, see this.)

* Not quite true, I also make judicious use of carbs in whole wheat pizza and greens pie.