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REC: Lidia's Strangozzi with Chard and Almond Sauce
Here is is as promised. I just picked up the book from
the library last night. I'm going to try to make this sometime soon. It really sounds good to me. Kate STRANGOZZI WITH CHARD AND ALMOND SAUCE (Strangozzi con Salsa di Bietole e Mardorle - Umbria) Chard and Pesto: 2 lb. Swiss chard 1 c. loosely packed fresh basil leaves 1/4 c. loosely packed fresh mint leaves 4 plump cloves garlic, 2 peeled and crushed, 2 peeled and sliced 10 T. extra-virgin olive oil 1 1/2 t. kosher salt 1/3 c. sliced almonds, toasted 1/2 t. peperoncino flakes, or to taste Pasta: 1 batch (1 1/2 lb.) Homemade Strangozzi extra-virgin olive oil, for finishing 1 c. freshly grated parmigiano-reggiano, plus more for serving Bring large pot of well-salted water (6 qt. + 1 T. salt) to boil. Rinse and drain chard, cut off stems. If central rib is thick and tough, cut it out. Pile up leaves and slice them crosswise into strips about 1" wide. When water boils, heap chard into pot and stir, submerging the strips. Return to boil and cook until tender, about 10 minutes. With strainer remove chard and drop into colander. Turn off heat and save pot of hot water for cooking strangozzi. When chard has drained and cooled a bit, squeeze by handfuls, pressing out the liquid. Loosen the clumps and pile in the colander. For pesto: Put basil, mint, crushed garlic, 3 T. olive oil, and 1 t. salt into food processor. Process to a chunky paste, about 10 seconds. Add almonds and process for 10 seconds until you have a smooth, bright green paste. Pour remaining 7 T. olive oil into large skillet set over medium-high heat. Scatter in the sliced garlic and cook for 1-2 minutes, until it is sizzling. Drop in the chard, season with peperoncino, and the remaining ½ t. salt, and stir. Ladle in 1/2 c. hot water from pot and bring to a boil. Cook rapidly for several minutes, until water has reduced by half. Lower heat to simmer. Bring chard cooking water back to boil. Add strangozzi, stirring and separating the strands. Cover pot and rapidly return water to boil. Set cover ajar and cook about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally until barely al dente. With strainer and tongs remove strangozzi from water, drain a moment, and drop into skillet with simmering chard. Toss together quickly and spread all the herb-almond pesto on top. Rinse out the food processor bowl with 1/2 c. hot water from pot and pour that into pasta. Over low heat, toss pasta, chard, and pesto together for 1-2 minutes until strangozzi are all coated and perfectly al dente. If dressing is soupy, reduce it quickly over high heat; if it’s too dense, thin it with more pasta water. Turn off heat, sprinkle 1 c. or so of grated cheese over strangozzi and toss well. Finish with drizzle of live oil. Toss again. Heap into warm bowls. Serve immediately with more cheese. Makes sauce for 1 batch strangozzi or other pasta. Serves 6. (From “Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy” by Lidia Bastianich) Homemade Strangozzi: 1/2 lb. flour 1 3/4 c. fine semolina flour 1/2 t. kosher salt 1 1/4 c. ice water Put flours and salt in food processor and process a few seconds. With processor running pour in water through feed tube. Process for 30 seconds, until a dough forms and gathers on blade. If dough does not gather or process easily it is too wet or too dry. Feel dough and add either more flour or more water in small amounts. Turn dough out on lightly floured surface and knead briefly by hand until smooth, soft, and stretchy. Press into disk, wrap well in plastic wrap, and let rest at room temperature for at least 1/2 hour. (Refrigerate dough for up to 1 day or freeze for a month or more. Defrost in fridge and return to room temperature before rolling.) Cut into 6 equal portions. Lightly flour and put through pasta machine at progressively thinner settings (but not the thinnest setting), extruding it into a long strip about 1/8" thick, 20" long, and 5" wide. Lay sheets flat on lightly floured trays. Dust tops with flour and cover loosely with towel. Let dry for 15-30 minutes. To form strangozzi: Lay out one pasta strip on floured surface and roll it up from both short ends, making 2 fairly tight coils that meet in the middle, like an old-fashioned scroll. Slice the scroll crosswise, down through both coils, at 1/4" intervals. From a 5" wide scroll you should get about 20 pieces. To unfold the strangozzi slide a long knife blade under the center of the cut pieces, without separating them. Make sure knife is in exact center where the 2 rolls meet. Lift knife and dough off table, jiggle knife gently and coils will unroll on either side of knife. If dough is sticky in spots unroll with fingers. Lower strands to work surface and slide off knife. Gather all into a loose nest and set it on floured towel or tray. Repeat with rest of dough. Leave nests uncovered to air-dry at room temperature until you’re ready to cook them . (Or freeze nests on tray until solid and then pack in airtight ziplock bags.) -- Kate Connally “If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.” Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back, Until you bite their heads off.” What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about? |
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Andy wrote:
> Kate, > > Snipped and saved the recipe. > > Reading through the recipe, there's certainly no short cuts the first time > around. > > I noticed the one ½ fraction. What happened to the rest of them? > > Thanks! > > Best, > > Andy and Kitchen Kate Ah, the fractions . . . . Well, when I type in recipes or copy them to a file on my computer, I format them the way I like them. I like the "special character" version of the fractions and always use those. However when I copy and paste one of my recipes a message to the newsgroup I go through and change all the fractions back to the "1/2" version since many people get garbage when I leave the special characters in. I guess I missed one of them. I'm glad you could read it. :-) Kate -- Kate Connally “If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.” Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back, Until you bite their heads off.” What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about? |
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Kate wrote:
> Ah, the fractions . . . . Well, when I type in recipes or > copy them to a file on my computer, I format them the way > I like them. I like the "special character" version of the > fractions and always use those. However when I copy and > paste one of my recipes a message to the newsgroup I go through > and change all the fractions back to the "1/2" version since many > people get garbage when I leave the special characters in. > I guess I missed one of them. I'm glad you could read it. :-) Thanks for taking the time to do that, and thanks for typing and posting that recipe! Bob |
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On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:46:05 -0500, Kate Connally wrote:
> Andy wrote: >> Kate, >> >> Snipped and saved the recipe. >> >> Reading through the recipe, there's certainly no short cuts the first time >> around. >> >> I noticed the one ½ fraction. What happened to the rest of them? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Best, >> >> Andy and Kitchen Kate > > Ah, the fractions . . . . Well, when I type in recipes or > copy them to a file on my computer, I format them the way > I like them. I like the "special character" version of the > fractions and always use those. However when I copy and > paste one of my recipes a message to the newsgroup I go through > and change all the fractions back to the "1/2" version since many > people get garbage when I leave the special characters in. > I guess I missed one of them. I'm glad you could read it. :-) > > Kate that's very thoughty of you. when i transcribe recipes, i use notepad, and i'm not even sure it savvies the special characters. your pal, blake |
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blake wrote:
> when i transcribe recipes, i use notepad, and i'm not even sure it savvies > the special characters. Yes, Notepad can handle fraction characters. You can use the "Replace" function in Notepad can change ¼ to 1/4, ½ to 1/2, and ¾ to 3/4, if you want to go to all that trouble. You can write a Word macro to do those three things with one button, too. Or you can write a bat or sed script (depending on your OS) to do all three things at once. Bob |
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On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 18:46:56 -0800, Bob Terwilliger wrote:
> blake wrote: > >> when i transcribe recipes, i use notepad, and i'm not even sure it savvies >> the special characters. > > Yes, Notepad can handle fraction characters. You can use the "Replace" > function in Notepad can change ¼ to 1/4, ½ to 1/2, and ¾ to 3/4, if you want > to go to all that trouble. You can write a Word macro to do those three > things with one button, too. Or you can write a bat or sed script (depending > on your OS) to do all three things at once. > > Bob there doesn't seem to be much payback for the effort. plus, if i boop the straight text into some other format, no chance it will get garbled. your pal, blake |
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