Pasta Recipes: Spicy Crab Pasta

Pasta Recipes

 

 

I love my pasta recipes as many of you well know I do. I was doing a lot of Asian recipes by requests over the last few months and then a week or two ago I started getting hit up by some long term subbers on my Youtube channel to make pasta recipes again. As a foodie it's really difficult to keep everyone happy so I have to jump around alot and it seems like there are so many recipes and so little time to make them all.

So last week I made I did one of my pasta recipes called Pasta With Eggs And Anchovies for my subbers and this week I am going to do one of my really easy pasta recipes called Spicy Crab Pasta. I have been trying lately to not have to go out shopping each week to make my dishes because my cupboards, pantries, and fridge are PACKED to the gills! So I am trying to lighten the load in my place before going out and spending more money of provisions and then stuff gets forgotten and they go bad in which case I have wasted money.

Luckily enough I have more pasta and tomatoes and sauce  in my house than the prime minister of Italy! I came across a can of lump crab claw meat in my fridge and thought about pasta recipes that I could make this week and I decided to make for you my readers and Youtube subbers one of my newest pasta recipes. This week I am going to make Spicy Crab Pasta.  This pasta recipe will have the flavors of Southeast Asia incorporated into it. As far as pasta recipes are concerned I could call this dish Thai Crab Pasta or Spicy Crab Pasta as I am doing.

As far as pasta recipes go this is not a traditional Italian pasta recipes, rather this is a pasta recipe born of a need to use what I have on hand and it will be delicious. A lot of the flavors of Southeast Asia will be present. The fragrance of garlic and chilies along with the savory odors of basil and cilantro will make this one of my favorite pasta recipes to make over and over again!


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Pasta Recipes Egg Recipes Pasta With Eggs And Anchovies

Pasta Recipes

 

This week it's back to pasta recipes folks. Yup! I was going to go the Asian route again but I got slammed by emails from people that enjoy my pasta recipes, so this week it's back to pasta recipes! Actually this weeks recipe is going to be a bit of a fusion between pasta recipes and egg recipes.

This week I was watching a fellow Youtuber make one of my favorite egg recipes. A simple appetizer by my favorite chef in the world Jacques Pepin. One of his simplest egg recipes is eggs with anchovies. I know it sounds weird but believe you me this little recipe works. It's hard boiled eggs covered in a mayo hot sauce with anchovy fillets on top and then topped again with some red onion and capers. Delicious!

Well, this week one of my Youtube subs made his version of this recipe and I thought I would go one step further and blend the two into a fusion of pasta recipes and egg recipes. So this week I am going to be making one of my new pasta recipes fused with one of my favorite egg recipes and I will be making pasta with eggs and anchovies in a creamy gorgonzola mornay sauce.

The mornay sauce is called a "small sauce' that comes from on of the five mother sauces developed by chef Georges Auguste Escoffier. He developed a set of five mother sauces from which hundreds of other smaller sauces could be developed. A true genius in the culinary arts. Mornay sauce can be used in pasta recipes and in egg recipes as well as a sauce on veggies. Mornay sauce or variations of it make the best mac and cheese you will ever have!

So onward and upward we go! This dish that I am making this week is not one of my traditional pasta recipes nor is it considered something to be called traditional egg recipes but the combination of the two work very well together and I think you will enjoy it. So please watch the video and make this recipe at home and make it your own and I would love to hear from you!


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Italian Food: Polenta Con Ragù Di Funghi Great Mushroom Recipes

Italian Food

 

 

This week I am back to making some Italian food for you my loyal readers and Youtube subscribers. I am going to make one of my favorit mushroom recipes today. I am still getting bombarded with requests for Malay cuisine and I promise to get back to it ASAP! I am just trying to make dishes right now that I can make with the things I have on hand here in my house because I am so well stocked that sometimes I forget just how well stocked I am and then I run the chance of things going bad and I don't like to waste money that way.

So I went looking around my pantries this week and I found some polenta which is a favorite Italian food of mine and I also found some dried shitake mushrooms which I keep on hand quite often along with dried porcini mushrooms as well. I was seeing something forming! I love mushroom recipes!  I also had some tomato paste and all the herbs and spices I needed to make some Italian food. The only thing I really had to buy this week was mushrooms. So I just got back in the door and I am writing this post and I came back with one pound of baby portobello mushrooms and some white button mushrooms to make one of my favorite mushrooms recipes and that is mushroom ragu! Polenta Con Ragù Di Funghi! In other words polenta with mushroom ragu! This is simple Italian food at it's best and one of the easiest mushroom recipes that I know how to make and it is delicious!

I mean lets look at some facts. Some of the best known dishes in the world are actually peasant foods from the rural areas of their respective countries. Polenta isn't a rich man's dish in Italy and neither is mushrooms unless you get into the tuffles both black and white and then you are talking BIG MONEY! The fact is that when it comes to Italian food many of the dishes that are world famous and known started out as humble working man's food.  I love mushrooms and I love making mushroom recipes and this dish of polenta and mushroom ragu is one of my best and favorites.

Now as far as mushroom recipes are concerned  you can make this dish as strictly vegetarian by just making the mushroom ragu and then making the polenta and that's fine! I add a light touch of either bacon or Italian sausage to the mix to add a level of flavor that you usually don't get in this dish and it's wonderful! So if you love Italian food and you love mushrooms and mushroom recipes then I urge you to make this dish and make it your own either vegetarian or not just make it your own and I promise you that you will just love it as much as I do. Enjoy the video!

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