welcome friends welcome back to the kitchen another episode of stuff and our
covered the pandemic pantry today I'm gonna make a riff on and and I'm gonna
add tuna and I've made some fresh pasta I've done a couple of recipes lately on
making fresh pasta one with eggs and this one is just water and durum
semolina super simple and this is a type of pasta that you can dry if you've been
watching lately you've seen me use these quite a bit and this is garlic that we
grow from seed in our garden it comes up first thing in the spring and it is
fantastic in a lot of recipes so I'm just gonna cut off the root end and then
I'm just going to give it a rough chop and stick it into this measuring cup
next in is some olive oil so I'm going to do about a hundred mils of olive oil
extracting some black pepper now I'm going to use canned tuna but the reality
is you could use a can of any fish that you have in your cupboard I've got a
selection in front of me that we usually have in our cupboard and there are boy
stirs salmon crabmeat sardines mackerel there's smoked fish
you could put in pretty much anything if you like it whatever you like whatever
your flavor balance is and pretty much at April twenty twenty whatever you have
in your cupboard is gonna work fine now I'm gonna put the tuna juice in if you
have tuna packed in oil that's fine put that in as well
I've got tuna packed in water and I generally want to bring this up to just
about 225 mils so I'm gonna add just a little more water to bring it up a bit
now just to give it a little zip I'm gonna put in one of our pickled hot
peppers now these are out of our garden last summer so I want one that's not too
big this is gonna bring a little bit of heat and it's also gonna bring some
vinegar brightness to the dish just to sort of cut some of that olive oil and
the tuna flavor and I'm gonna hit this with a stick blender
they could do this in a blender blender I just thought the stick blender would
be a little bit faster and easier to clean up so once I've got this all
emulsified together let's take that off and we're gonna put this into a pan and
we wanted to bring this up to we're just trying to warm this so we're not putting
pasta into a cold sauce let's give it a taste well that's nice
nice and bright really nice and bright I think it needs maybe a little bit of
salt now I'm bringing the water up to temperature to boil the pasta and while
that's happening let's put the tuna in and just break it up into the sauce
almost forgot the capers I always forget the capers and then remember a little
bit later on that I should have put them in so umm tablespoon of capers
but that mini may be that many now the water is boiling so I'm going to put the
pasta in
okay so dry pasta into salted boiling water and this does not take long to
cook at all okay hey Jules hi the pastas in so the pastas in it doesn't take long
to cook at all it's pretty much just a dump and that's it
so sauce is kind of simmering just a little bit warm put the pasta in and now
we just shake it to get it coated with the sauce and if you need to just take a
ladle and add a little bit more pasta water to it
just to get the sauce to the right consistency I can never do that well
that's okay Glenn I am Not sure I have a graceful way to eat this in front of
everyone it smells pretty good though yeah I'm
you know just another one of those let's see what we can make was capers we're
probably using those gamers do you miss it does everyone have a jar capers way
way back in their fridge somewhere as you know cover if you forget to use them
you bought them for that one recipe yeah and there's still there in the in the
cupboard or in the fridge wherever you store it all right that's nice it's very
springtime that fresh garlic a little bit of heat from the our pickled pepper
now you could use hot pepper flakes probably most people would use hot
pepper flakes we don't have them so pickled peppers it is that's pretty nice
smooth it does have a like a nice light flavor and as always I will say you can
have some vegetables on the side mm-hmm good you know you could probably put
some I feel like you could add broccoli or peas to this without it but positive
flavor isn't supposed to be the main part of your meal anyway yeah
everybody's different I mean who doesn't like to eat the whole box off Macky
Katie well we would call Katie I would eat the whole box of Katie yeah yeah so
this is um this is another one those things completely open to interpretation
you just kind of take that method and add any flavor that you want to it
or any fish that you want to it if you have a fish that you have yeah any fish
that you have and if you had a lemon a little squeeze of lemon at the end would
be really great so don't forget to be inventive in the kitchen substitutions
are fantastic you don't have to fall into you know any sort of category
thanks for stopping by stay safe stay healthy see you again soon
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