Wine: Pleiades XV Old Vines
This was the first dinner we cooked since returning from Southeast Asia. We decided to keep it simple. We cooked to dishes from The Zuni Café Cookbook. We chose them because we wanted recipes that would NOT require us to go to the Hollywood Farmer’s Market early Sunday morning. We are still affected by Jet Lag.
For the first course we made Caesar Salad. Zuni’s is the best ever! The key for us is the Romaine Hearts, anchovies packed in salt, and a great parmesan cheese (always from Cheese Store of Silverlake).
For the pasta a delicious one from the cookbook: Pasta with Braised Bacon & Roasted Tomato Sauce. The important thing in this recipe is great bacon – we used Nueskes Bacon. The cheese we used was an aged pecorino. This recipe is nice because you actually used canned whole tomatoes, you don’t need fresh tomatoes. It will definitely give us some great leftovers!
We went the La Brea Bakery at Campanile Restaurant to purchase some rolls for breakfast and they had the perfect pasta for this dish: Bucatini. It is a thick tubular pasta, and really holds the sauce.
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