This is officially my new favourite pasta recipe. Just....wow. I wouldn't have thought that canned clams would figure in a such labeled dish, but there it is. Another great idea from SO - this turned out not too creamy or rich, but full of rich flavours with just a tiny bit of pop from dried chilies. Cooking things up in the fat from the double-smoked bacon turned out to be the first good idea. The second, I finally got a chance to try some of the
black garlic I got from
Chef Michael Smith's Flavour Shack in PEI, where we visited recently. Finally, fresh linguine was on sale at Sobey's today. Perfect!
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| Sauteing the clams with bacon and mushrooms |
Mmmm, the smell of bubbling garlic, mushrooms, clams, bacon.....this will be good. Assembling it with the fresh pasta, and we have one fine Sunday dinner.
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| A nest of linguine with clams, bacon, and mushrooms |
Next time: wouldn't change much! Maybe fresh clams, but that would be a lot more trouble.
me: 10/10
SO: 10/10
SSO: 7/10, but that was the plain pasta with butter and salt, the clam part was probably 2/10
