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15 minute recipe: tagliatelle with mushrooms and sausage

tagliatelle with sausage and mushrooms

Pasta is the perfect weeknight dish.

This week, we selected Marco Giacosa’s “Straw Hay” Pasta, to dish up, partly because of its charming name. And indeed, the pasta does look like hay…delicious hay.

Ricco Deruta Pasta Bowl

This tagliatelle is delicate, with a silky smooth texture and slight undertones of spinach that blend seamlessly into most sauces you could pair it with. This week, we chose to add sausage and mushroom slices from the farmer’s market. It only took us about 15 minutes to prepare, and enjoyed with the Plani Arche Montefalco Rosso, it was a successful weekday dinner!

Deruta Ceramic Pasta Bowl
Girasole Medium Serving Bowl

Process:

•·      Heat pot of salted water to boil

•·      Cut sausages into thin circular pieces and slice mushrooms

•·      Place sausages in pan on medium-high heat and cook until browned

•·      Remove sausage and add 1 tablespoon of olive oil into pan, add mushrooms and cook until browned

•·      Once water is boiling, add Marco Giacosa’s “Straw Hay” Pasta, and cook for about 6 minutes (or until tender). Because of the high quality of the pasta, it will cook significantly faster than most grocery store brands, so keep your eye on the pot!

•·      Strain pasta and mix in with tomato sauce or just high quality olive oilas you prefer

•·      Top with warm sausages and mushrooms, pour yourself a glass of Montefalco Rosso, and enjoy!

Gather all your materials over at Emporio, and then toss on the apron to make this delicious weeknight meal, from our table to yours.

–Via Umbria

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Pasta is the perfect weeknight dish. This week, we selected Marco Giacosa’s “Straw Hay” Pasta, to dish up, partly because of its charming name. And indeed, ...

Pasta Making for Dummies!

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Pasta is one of life’s simple delights. Most pasta only has two ingredients: eggs and flour. If you have never eaten fresh pasta before, it is time to give it a whirl, because even dummies (aka our own Bill Menard) can make it successfully, and the taste difference is incredible.

On Wednesday, Bill taught us how to make tagliatelle. For the next two Wednesdays, November 12th and 19th, we will make chitarra and ravioli – come join us by RSVPing through Eventbright: http://goo.gl/PdqNNk. We also have recipe cards explaining the whole process with measurements in-store, come grab your 00 flour and a card soon!

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To make pasta properly you really must use 00 flour — it finer than normal flower and makes the texture of the pasta smooth, not dough-like.

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After measuring out the correct amount of flour, you make a little nest for your darling egg. Then smash it with your hands!  This is a step that we all wanted to do as kids and is very fun yet mildly gross as an adult.

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Then the egg is whisked into the flour, kneaded, and formed into a ball. We let the ball rest for 15 minutes while examining our flour-ed cloths and wishing we remembered an apron. During this time you can also get your pasta sauce started.

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Next the rolling technique. Bill shows us the correct Italian technique, which he has learned from the Italian masters and a lot of practice.

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We roll out the dough, fold and slice it up, and then wait for it to dry about 20 minutes. This is the perfect time to return to the sauce you started to make and finish it. Then we boil the pasta for about five minutes. We topped ours with our spicy arrabbiata sauce.

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Fresh pasta is more tender and delicate and almost buoyant on the tongue than the packaged stuff. We could get used to this.

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— Via Umbria

Pasta is one of life's simple delights. Most pasta only has two ingredients: eggs and flour. If you have never eaten fresh ...