This week I have cooked up the cover recipe from Issue 2 of the new SBS magazine Feast. I have heard alot of good things about this magazine but to be honest I didn't love it. I enjoyed the reading aspect, like the story about slow food pioneer Daniela Mollica...LOVE! The recipes, across the board, not so much. There are a couple that jumped out at me as might try but not many that I NEED to cook RIGHT NOW!
Sunday night we sampled the cover recipe Calabrian Pasta with Fresh Beans and Potatoes...that Pasta e fagioli fresche con patate if you speak Italian ;). Of the three cover recipes I have cooked so far this is the one that I have stuck to most faithfully, as in I didn't alter a single thing.
It was the first time I have ever cooked a pasta sauce using a method anything like this, which involves simmering all the non pasta ingredients together starting with 2 cups of water. To our palettes it just didn't develop the same depth of flavour that you get by frying off, or sauteing, you know cooking the onion and garlic in olive oil before you even consider doing anything else...
Charlotte enjoyed it the most I'd say. Steven didn't finish his. J ate the spaghetti part, with her hands. S didn't eat much, he shunned the beans but ate the basil because it looked like spinach, but of course. Lil ate enough to sustain her but wasn't enamoured.
The recipe says serves 4, it served the 6 of us and there is easily enough left in the fridge for 2 more serves. The double carb potato + pasta thing (and reccomended serve with bread, eek) really didn't work for me and I'm not a carb phobe...the whole dish just lacked, like I said already, depth of flavour.
I'll be interested to see what Feast offers up next month because for now the jury is out, I love the world food aspect but my inital reaction is that it just doesn't match up to Gourmet Traveller.
Happy Tuesday :)
Tatum xx
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