Love in a dark closet

You were hoping I was going to write something about making out in a dark closet, huh? (If so, then you know me not at all.) This is my pantry. I love it. I love pantries. I love the smell of them. I love the potential that unfolds from them. I love the hoarding aspect of them. If everything falls apart right now, at least we can make some walnut pasta.

Which is what I made last night. This is just about the easiest sauce to make. It's also quite fast. If you weren't aware of it, you may like to know that walnuts are rich in the fatty acids every health guru has been going on and on about lately. The Omega-3's. So this is a healthful dish. Will this cost you many points in calories? Hell yeah. But if you only eat a cup of it, and the pasta is home made, the points are not wasted on your hips.

Here's what you do to make it:

Put the following ingredients in your food processor;
1 1/2 cups lightly toasted walnuts
3 medium garlic cloves (roughly chopped)
1 tsp salt
freshly ground pepper to taste

Pulverize the crap out of it. When it's all ground up, slowly add:
3 Tbsp olive oil

Add it to 16 oz pasta of your choice. I used two pasta nests from my pantry, dried a few weeks ago. I'll be frank, I didn't cook the pasta quite long enough and it was a bit al dente for my taste. You can use half the walnut sauce on the 16 oz of pasta if you like a real light coating of sauce, or you can use it all. Up to you. I always add a heaps a mere dusting of Parmesan cheese to the finished pasta. I don't usually add red pepper flakes, I just thought it would look pretty.

Incidentally, for those who have voted that I go ahead and model my fat ass in my peace apron: the glamour shoot will have to wait for a new one to be made. Philip sold it on Sunday. So I'll cut out a few more today and get crackin' on some more.



Note: Most people I have served this pasta sauce to love it, but one time some people HATED it. I'm just warning you that it is unusual and I will judge you if you don't like it.*

*Then you may feel free to judge me for not liking goat cheese. That's right, I said it: I HATE GOAT CHEESE. It's out now. I feel loads better.