It’s Christmasy because it’s red and green, right? Since it looks so festive and I thought you might like it, here is one of our favorite recipes of late, matchstick pasta:
Matchstick Pasta
You can find the recipe here. If I’m honest, I think Jonathan’s photo is better than Heidi’s, but I’m probably biased. This meal is filling and an excellent balance between the salty goodness of pistachios, the crispness of the kale and the sweetness of the pomegranate seeds.
Here are some tips/hints from the McPhersons:
- We buy the bag of pomegranate seeds from Trader Joe’s. I know, it’s cheating, but it’s such a time saver!
- I initially put a dollop of the sauce on the pasta and send it through the salad spinner as directed, but once I transfer everything to a bowl, I dump the rest of the sauce in and mix it all up. It’s the perfect amount of sauce for us.
- I try to use more like 10 or 12 ounces of pasta when we make this because pasta is cheap and I’m cheap too-helps the dish to go farther.
- This is delicious for leftovers at lunch or dinner the next day!
- Please note, kale is one of the “dirty dozen” so you’ll want to get these greens in the organic section of the grocery store. It’s still only $1.99 (cheaper than beef). I’ll admit it hurt just a little to buy this at the store since we’ve been feasting on kale from the root connection until now.
Here’s one more beauty shot, courtesy of Jonathan:
Delicious!
A tip to save you some cash and frustration with peeling pomegranates (I LOVE THEM) is to cut into it so it is almost in half but not quite, then do it again the other way so that if you had continued it would have cut into four sections. Then get a BIG bowl of water, plunge that sucker down there and gently peel the seeds in a stain free watery environment. The white bits will float to the top and the seeds sink to the bottom. brilliant! Then just scrap the garbage flotsam and enjoy some lovely fruit seeds
love you!!
My Dearest Kelly,
You are sooooo beautiful!!! Can’t wait to have a grand niece/nephew. So happy to hear that all is going well with you both.We think of you sooo often but you wouldn’t know it the way I communicate. Guess that comes with getting to be an ol’ lady. Love you both very much and my prayers are with you, yer ol’ aunty Mare