Cooking quandary
Aug. 22nd, 2007 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceWell, I don't know. I'm sitting here torn on the horns of a dilemma.
See, I have fresh broad beans from my veg box this morning, which I have boiled lightly and double-podded (because the English are the only people of whom I know, who will eat the nasty thick grey outer skin of the broad bean and think that they ought to; and in this at least I am not English); and I have a shank of boiled ham to pick over, before the cats do; and I thought that broad beans and ham and pasta would go extremely well together, and I believe that I am right. The big question is, though, do I keep it that simple - the beans, the ham, the pasta, a splash of good olive oil, a scatter of parmesan? Or do I construct a sauce with cream and shallots and garlic - which I also have, and the shallots & garlic are home-grown - and the beans and the ham? And the cheese?
Simple, or fancy? If I had a paid account, I'd make a poll of it (tho' only on condition that I could ignore what you said, if your decision made me suddenly fancy the alternate).
See, I have fresh broad beans from my veg box this morning, which I have boiled lightly and double-podded (because the English are the only people of whom I know, who will eat the nasty thick grey outer skin of the broad bean and think that they ought to; and in this at least I am not English); and I have a shank of boiled ham to pick over, before the cats do; and I thought that broad beans and ham and pasta would go extremely well together, and I believe that I am right. The big question is, though, do I keep it that simple - the beans, the ham, the pasta, a splash of good olive oil, a scatter of parmesan? Or do I construct a sauce with cream and shallots and garlic - which I also have, and the shallots & garlic are home-grown - and the beans and the ham? And the cheese?
Simple, or fancy? If I had a paid account, I'd make a poll of it (tho' only on condition that I could ignore what you said, if your decision made me suddenly fancy the alternate).