Saturday, May 1, 2010

POD-87: Penne with ricotta and asparagus

Yum!



It seems as though lately life here is getting harder instead of easier, especially with visitors coming and going. I thought it was just Morgan, but it affects me a lot too. Last week was full of tears and tantrums, but we're starting to break through again. One of the things I decided would help me a bit is if I was able to help out more with the shopping and cooking. It has always worked out quite nicely for Scott to go during the week when it isn't as crowded then he lets me spend extra time in the evenings to hang out with Morgan, but both are things I really like to do and miss. We've also really been into Jaime Oliver's food revolution and its been making me think we should be eating a little better too. I spent Friday night searching for some new recipes to try and came up with a few good ones. Unfortunately, I picked a bad Saturday to start since I had no idea it was a holiday and most of the groceries were closed. I managed to get some fresh veggies though to get me through a few ideas. This was the first experiment and it came out delicious.

2 comments:

Dirk said...

it defenitely looks amazing! and it's asparagus season, I should give it a go as well.

there's kosher salt in the recipe. does that come from the dead sea?

amy said...

The white asparagus was looking pretty tasty, but not enough color for this dish.

I had to look up the salt because I kind of wondered too...I just use sea salt, but Kosher is a coarse grained salt without additives that they use to make kosher meats. All salt should be technically kosher.