Posted in June 2012

Bruschetta Angel Hair with a Balsamic Reduction

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I wish I could tell you that the inspiration for this pasta was as fancy as its name. Too bad I made it because I was craving my favorite thing on the Friday’s menu. To my credit though, there are way more veggies in mine.

Also, I love the way raw garlic is a little spicy.

A note to the wise, the vinegar reducing is pungent. It chased my boyfriend all the way out to the porch. Since I was cooking, I didn’t really notice it.

I bet the leftovers will be really good tomorrow, and also as actual bruschetta on bread.

Bruschetta Angel Hair with a  Balsamic Reduction

1 Cup Balsamic Vinegar
1 tsp brown sugar

1 lb angel hair pasta

1/2 yellow pepper
1/2 red onion
1 cup or so grape tomatoes, sliced in half
a bunch of basil
like 1 clove of garlic per serving (or whatever, that’s my general rule of thumb because I love garlic, if you don’t, you might want a little less. Also, if you don’t, I don’t get you )

  1. combine vinegar and brown sugar in a small saucepan and heat over low heat while you do everything else, or until reduced by about half. stir occasionally.
  2. chop all the veggies up and mix together in a large bowl
  3. cook pasta
    Cooking Tip Everyone Knows #1 salt the water, it’s the only time you’ll get to season the pasta itself 
  4. pour reduced vinegar mixture over the veggies (this contributes to the awesomeness because it cooks everything just a little)
  5. toss with pasta and enjoy!

 

 

 

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Yarn Assignments – Turquoise Red Heart Classic

Turquoise Red Heart Classic

After a battle with moths laid my old yarn collection to waste (tragically and with lots of tears). I vowed that I wouldn’t allow my yarn to exceed one large plastic bin.

About a year later, it’s threatening to overflow again, so my new rule is that I have to assign all yarn a project and I’m only allowed to buy yarn if I need it to get something out of the bin and into my closet. This is the first yarn that’s getting an assignment, and as luck would have it, it’s on the lower end of my stash spectrum. I believe it was bought for a stuffed animal that didn’t work out.

now I have 190ish yards of turquoise red heart classic. I’m not what I would call a super yarn snob, but this is not exactly sweater worthy yarn. So what to do with it? I delved through my Ravelry queue (1311 patterns long, what is wrong with this picture?!?!?) and I decided that this yarn deserves to become

Crochet Slippers from Interweave! 
Ravelry Link

The pattern is $5 on the Interweave store, and it looks like it would be great for gifts. It supposedly uses about 300 yards  of yarn so I’ll have to either buy another skein or pair it up with another stash yarn. Maybe I’ll get two skeins of acrylic out of the way. Kill two  skeins with one stone if you will.

 

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