furious food

The culinary Furies gave us the recipe for Caper-Laden Pasta of Pleasure.

Last night I finally made it. The missus was very pleased. I was too, but there are very few dishes I don't add salt to at the table. This was one. Exactly my kind of flavors, because I'm an old salty dog, but saner palates will want to heed the warning to balance salty and sweet. Next time, I might add red peppers. As it was, fried baby red tomatoes did what counter-salty work was done.

What the Kindly Ones hadn't mentioned was that the final dish is the colors of the Italian flag:

(Or maybe they hadn't used green olives.)

It was certainly one of the prettiest dinners I've served.

The idea behind the recipe is to make something "fast, easy, and based on what you find in the fridge when you have not shopped." The irony then is that we had none of these ingredients in our kitchen. We've only been here two months. But we'll keep them around from now on. We just discovered an Italian market down the road.

It's good to know very fast meals that will please the lady.