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Fettuccine with pork sauce and glazed carrots


How to make carrots taste good.

a) Leave them alone and eat them raw like Bugs Bunny does.
b) Glaze them with orange juice and brown sugar, candied that is, suitable for children.
c) There are plenty of other things you can do with them too but what I object to is their overuse in multiple dishes at the same meal as if the cook wondered what to do for want of orange specks and so shredded them in a tossed green salad, chopped them into the stew, cut them with peas for a side, then finished with dessert of carrot cake. That actually happened once on an airplane. Put me off carrots for a decade. Then my friends joked about that for the rest of my life.

Handmade fettuccine pasta because I like making noodles and because it's been awhile and because those bouncy little things are just so fun.

Sauce using braised pork chops prepared previously refreshed with onion, garlic, and bell pepper.




The carrots were steamed in a shallow pan with scant 1/2 cup water. Once half way tender, they were lightly salted. + 2 tablespoons brown sugar, + juice of one navel orange, + 1 tablespoon butter.

Pasta made with one large egg, 1/2 egg shell water, 1/2 cup semolina, 1/2 cup A/P flour.
This blended into an exceedingly dry mixture. Dough rested for 1/2 hour was much more pliable. Run through Atlas to #5 setting, then fettuccine cutter.

Sauce in the same pan the carrots were steamed and glazed, rinsed out of course. Tablespoon of butter, 1/2 white onion, 1 yellow pepper, one sliced garlic clove, Italian seasoning, S/P.

Grated Parmigiano Reggiano. I used the little knobs of rind left over from previous wedges. Man, you can really grate those puppies down.

1 comment:

  1. Carrots buttersteamed with ginger paste and a lot of black and white coarse-ground pepper. Nom nom nom. Not as sweet as with OJ and brown sugar but the ginger really complements the sweetness of the carrots.

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