Good morning! Today we have for you:
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A one-pot roasted garlic pasta that is proudly garlicky
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A picturesque roasted chicken with vinegared grapes
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And, a showstopping apple cake
Last weekend, I bought a bushel — about 53 pounds, or 24 kilograms — of tomatoes. With them, I made many quarts of Marcella Hazan’s beautiful tomato sauce. I also made many quarts of the tomato sauce in the Frankies Spuntino cookbook, a favorite that calls for sizzling lots and lots of garlic in olive oil before adding crushed tomatoes.
Knowing I would need a ton of garlic, I picked up a vacuum-sealed package of peeled cloves from one of my go-to Asian grocery stores. Don’t get me wrong, I love the sensory experience of prying fat, individual cloves from a head of garlic, their fragrance blooming when I smash them with the side of my knife, the satisfaction of removing the papery skin from a pearly clove in once piece. But having experienced the ease of tumbling multiple heads’ worth of garlic into a pot in just seconds, I’m now looking for any and all excuses to keep buying peeled garlic.
Chicken with 40 cloves of garlic comes to mind, as does pasta marinara with the same amount. But I’m especially intrigued by Carolina Gelen’s one-pot roasted garlic pasta, a minimalist supper that calls for only garlic (about 25 cloves), olive oil, salt, pasta and heavy cream. Instead of roasting the garlic in the oven, it’s sizzled in the olive oil, which creates that same nutty, mellow flavor. And — because this is a proudly garlicky pasta — there’s one last garlic clove, grated, to add a bit of bite as you stir in your garlic oil and aforementioned cream.
Carolina’s pasta would be really lovely alongside a simple pork tenderloin and an herby salad, though I’m stuck on the idea of enjoying it all by itself, with a theatrically large glass of red wine. (I mean, if I’m using peeled cloves, this recipe doesn’t involve a knife, and the reader J has this helpful comment: “This recipe rocks because you can also make it while a bit tipsy.”)
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One-Pot Roasted Garlic Pasta
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