Seriously, the doctor says your PIDL (pasta intake diversity levels), are scoring pretty low this week.

Recent studies, by self proclaimed scientists all across this room,

have been able to directly link happiness to quantity and diversity of your weekly pasta intake.

Facts are facts, I’m doing this for your own good.

I’ve painstakingly combined a weeks worth of pasta shapes into one

glorious baked pasta extravaganza!

 Seven shapes,

Lasagnette, Rigatoni, Bucatini, Gigli, Conchiglie, Casarecce and cavatelli

all baked together, with layers of meat sauce, diced prosciutto, béchamel, asparagus and peas!

It’ll be a tough pill to swallow, but I assure you, I only have your happiness’ best intrest in mind

Also today:

Black and White Cappellini, alla Siciliana

Tagliatelle, alla bolognese

Sedani, with pesto and fresh mozzarella

This looks like spring to me!Get it while it lasts!

Also today:

Rigatoni: alla bolognese

Casarecce, with english peas, panchetta, mint and cream!

….ah the computer age, it makes everything easier,
……except when it makes everything harder.

So I’m posting this blog from my phone
And this is all you’re getting.

I think everyone should brush up on their history of Rome today!

Here’s a brief summery, over Mambo No.5, I think you should watch it.

Viva Roma #5

But if you find that hard to stomach,

Just eat this.

Bucatini all’Amatriciana

It’ll be the tastiest history lesson ever!

Also today:

Conchiglie, with pesto and toasted walnuts

Lasagnette: with ragu bolognese

I had an idea for a suspense-thriller-type-move today:

——-

It was about someone who woke up on a monday morning

in a nearly paralyzing state of grogginess,

and no matter what he did,

neither his body nor mind could respond to mundanities of waking up and getting ready for …………

(cue the creepy b-movie horn stabs)

Work.

-yet his work day kept creeping towards him,  lurching,

threatening him with every tick of the clock,

growing stronger with every drop of spilled coffee,

tormenting him as he paced back and forth, trying in vain to collect his personal effects and prepare to face………

THE DAY!

-there would be a struggle,

a hair-raising 6 block downhill bike ride down James St in the rain,

and many incoherent and unintelligible mumblings..

……It would probably have some cheesy happy ending, where he finally had a third cup of coffee,

meets the drain repar guy at the restaurant in the nick of time,

gets the girl,

and whips up some pasta special with an appropriate amount of pickled-pepper ZING!

-to ward off any further demons.

Spaghettini Nero, with Pickled Pepara Peppers, Boquerones, olive oil and bread crumbs.

Also today:

Rigatoni Gigante, with spicy italian sausage ragu

Pasta misti, with castelvetrano olives, celery, lemon and garlic.

Today only…….

in the ultimate spring show down, …….a battle of the giants:

Cresti Di Gallo, 

or “Rooster’s Crests”

with Castelvetrano olives, celery, lemon, garlic oil and chili……

-VS-

Conchiglie, with Zucchini, Ceci beans, marjoram and pesto!

……who will come out on top?

(probably you)

And

Tagliatelle alla Bolognese

Squid-Ink Bucatini!

A perfect vehicle for the spicy, garlicky, anchovy laden, Siciliana sauce

with a little crunch from Pangrattato!

Also today:

Tortelli di quattro formaggi, in spicy salami pomodoro

Cavatelli, with baby zucchini, ceci. and pesto

A little break from the traditional today,

With the weather up into the 80′s, I had a craving for some of the flavors of my roots…

Behold..

My secret stash ofNew Mexico, Chimayo Red Chili.

Combined with some California sweet corn, sage and cream,

-it takes me back home to the sunny mesas of the high desert.

Tossed with leaf shaped pasta, or

“Foglie”

Also today:

Mafalda, with basil-parsley pesto

Tagliatelle, alla Bolognese

 livin’ da Thug Life.

All the way from Italy, our new 23mm Rigatoni die has arrived!

It’s serious.

-Served with overnight braised, tuscan style beef.

It’s the kind of pasta dish that says

“come at me, …..if you think you’re man enough” 

Also today:

Spaghettini, alla siciliana

Lumache, with fresh corn and sage cream

Somehow, things have gotten confused on the Nation Weather Map-

Clearly, some black-suited-number-crunching-high-security-clearance-weather-controlling member of the Illuminati

must of mis-keyed a few digits when he was punching in the numbers for the temperatures today.

Resulting in Seattle being the warmest city on the west coast today!

We will let it slide just this once…..

And in the meantime, we will pretend we are sitting the veranda of our Sicilian bungalow…

Ditalini, with spicy octopus sauce!

Enjoy this with a crisp glass of Gavi, and drink in the misstakes of the weather-puppeteers!

Also today:

Beet Spaghetti, with Agli Stracotto sauce

Tagliatelle, alla bolognese