While I love making homemade pasta, sometimes quick and easy is the way to go for a meal during the week. But that doesn’t have to mean the meal can’t be rock-star awesome. With some quality ingredients and a bit of a plan, you can totally rock out a mid-week pasta feast!
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Susan and I have always loved crab cakes – we’ve even tried to make them once or twice. But now we live in the Dungeness crab capitol of the world – holy cow are there some seriously tasty crab cakes in the local joints around here, and we’ve been trying them all. Even the “worst” crab cake we’ve eaten out here is still the best we ever had before we moved to Oregon.
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I’ve been so fortunate that for my past two economic development gigs, I’ve had the opportunity to serve truly gorgeous regional of our country. In Michigan, my territory was Iron County, in the wester Upper Peninsula. Here, it’s Lincoln County, on the central Pacific coast of Oregon.
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Susan fell in love with this dish at the Bear Trap Inn in Land ‘O Lakes, Wisconsin (just about 20 minutes for our cabin in the woods). It was so peppery and lemony and crispy – truly amazing comfort food.
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So last Christmas Santa brought us a little sampler box from an Italian importer called Gustiamo. In that sampler was some dried spaghetti pasta from Famiglia Martelli in Lari, Italy (a small mediaeval village near Pisa).
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For the last four years, we’ve used one of those remote temperature sensors to know what the temp is outside (and if we dipped under 20 below in the UP!). Our second unit gave up the ghost a few weeks ago so we decided to upgrade to a full-on weather station.
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