Lest You Think I Never Cook My Own Food
I forget how easy it is to cook sometimes. I'm usually so on the run and take myself to the level of complete hunger/starvation rage that I eat out on-the-fly and shove down whatever sounds delish at that particular weak moment (right now I'm on an ice cream, tamale, lentil soup, mike-and-ike, iced cafe latte from Whole Foods fixation). But, then there are times when I cannot stomach another restaurant meal and just want a nice plate of pasta or a simple bowl of soup. I made this delightful little creation last week when I realized I had a can of juicy clams in the pantry. It was sorta like a clam linguine but instead of linguine, I used some kind of gluten-free spaghetti (honest go God, you could never tell the difference between the real deal and gluten-free). Making the sauce was super-easy. Literally, it was a handful of chopped parsley tossed in some melted butter and swooshed around a bit. Then, I threw in a few cloves of roughly chopped garlic, more butter, the clams (juice included) and a huge squeeze of lemon, plus salt and pepper. I let that whole mess cook down bit and at the very end, I tossed in some half-and-half and let it simmer for a few final minutes. That little last-minute nugget of inspiration is what took this dish over the edge and caused me to eat all four supposed servings throughout my entire night. Man, what a feast. After my first bowl, I just couldn't stop going back to the stove where I'd left the whole shebang hanging and just picking up fingerful after of fingerful of little nibbles. I can't really do that, though...eat all of it in a span of just a few hours. That meal was supposed to feed four. That can't be good, huh? Ah, whatever~~I was happy as a clam when it was all said and done!
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