Everyday Dorie: Seafood Pasta

December 22, 2023 at 5:17 pm | Posted in cook the book fridays, everyday dorie, groups, pasta, savory things | 3 Comments
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Our Christmas Eve dinner tradition is to go to the Feast of the Seven Fishes at my favorite neighborhood Italian restaurant, Romans. You’ll find me there this Sunday, but if I wanted to tackle the feast at home, I’d surely make this Seafood Pasta…it knocks out three of seven right off the bat (maybe four if clam juice counts, but I’m not sure it does). This pasta is dressed in a tomato sauce enriched with slow-braised squid, wine and the aforementioned clam juice, which actually I didn’t feel like buying. I added a couple of anchovies and a bit of their oil to the sautéed onion and garlic at the beginning stages of sauce-building for a bit of extra salty fishiness. Then I used a some water later in the game to make up for the missing liquid the clam juice would have provided. Chunks of a firm fish (I went with opah) and shrimp are added at the end of the braise, just to cook through, before tossing with the pasta. Another Italian place in my neighborhood has a retail counter up front where they sell various freshly-made pasta shapes, one of them being the long, curly noodles called mafaldine that Dorie used, so I picked up a packet to boil here. Wow- this was so flavorful and all the seafood was cooked perfectly. It’s a totally luxurious pasta dish for holiday season.

For the recipe, see Everyday Dorie by Dorie Greenspan, and head over to Cook the Book Fridays to see how the group liked this one.

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I could taste the flavor as I read your vivid description on cooking the dish as well as the neighborhood Italian restaurants serving a luxurious seafood pasta just like this. You make me wanting to make this dish again. Merry Christmas!

Comment by Shirley @ EverOpenSauce— December 24, 2023 #

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- thank you and merry christmas! xoxo
  
  Comment by steph (whisk/spoon)— December 25, 2023 #
  
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I have never been to a feast of the seven fishes but I guess I should some day. I was not looking forward to this one but I was surprised by how much I liked it. Happy New Year!

Comment by Diane Zwang— January 2, 2024 #

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a whisk and a spoon