Dinner 2024

[Smithy]

8 hours ago, Honkman said:

 

Pasta Cassarole with Linguica and Kale - there are dishes you make for the first time but it hits a sweet spot and everybody at the table mentions that it is feels like comfort food you have made and eaten many times before. This casserole was one of these dishes. The recipe didn’t look that special but somehow it worked really nice together - penne, blanched and seared kale, seared linguica and mornay sauce with gouda and cheddar and topped with a little bit more gouda and panko crumbs.

 

Honkman, that does look good, and it brings up memories. A lifetime ago I lived with a New Bedford man. When we visited his hometown and we could find the ingredients, we'd pick up linguica and kale, and make kale soup. Apparently it was a favorite of the Portuguese fishermen there. We both quite liked it. That was before kale became really hip, really popular, then overexposed and unpopular in some quarters. I can't remember now whether it was the kale or the linguica that couldn't be found where we lived. 

 

I'd try your version of that combination any day!

[Tempest63]

Celebrating the wife’s birthday today, we did nothing special other than walk the dogs and clean and tidy ready for Christmas. We have twelve coming on the day plus us two means I’m cooking for fourteen. But for tonight we had roasted partridge, which we shot a week ago, steamed vegetables and a port and redcurrant sauce. Happy birthday Mrs T63.