Wordless Wednesday in the Garden!

ruby red stems of swiss chard in my garden

simply beautiful!

che bella!

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Bucatini with Roasted Sweet Red Pepper Sauce

Roasting red peppers freshly picked from the garden is just one of the easiest things that you can do to preserve your bountiful harvest of peppers.  And here's a good recipe to use some of those roasted red pepper that you want to enjoy right now!  Now if you've never roasted red pepper before, here is a tutorial on my blog:  Just click on this link to find some easy instructions for roasting red peppers.  This is a vegetarian, red marinara sauce for pepper lovers!  It is also pretty intensely flavored with the natural sweetness of red peppers.  For a more pungent flavor, use Asiago cheese instead of the every day, over-used Parmigiana-Regiano cheese.  But if you prefer a more mild cheese, than use the Parmesan instead.

My husband thinks that this is an "outstanding" marinara sauce, but he was frustrated with the bucatini noodles since he couldn't 'suck' the noodles into his mouth as he does with spaghetti noodles . . . bucatini noodles resemble long, thin tubes with a hole through the entire length of the noodle.  So twirling this noodle is essential to getting it into your mouth!  The name 'bucatini' originates from the Italian word 'buco' which means "hole", and 'bucato' means "pierced".

Bucatini noodles are particularly common in Rome and throughout the Italian provence of Lazio.  These have a fun and different pasta noodle shape, and not easily found in American grocery stores.  You can find them on-line from Italian food merchants or in Italian specialty food stores in larger cities.  But you can use any pasta shape that you prefer.

This recipe is similar to the infamously popular "Bucatini all'Amatriciana" in that a tomato-based sauce is used with the heat of red pepper flakes (pepperoncino), but it differs in that roasted red peppers are incorporated instead of pancetta and the use of asiago instead of pecorino romano cheese.  Both are delicioso!

please click on the link below for this delicious recipe!

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Almost Wordless Wednesday in the Gardens!

When all else fails to bloom in late summer, 

in the South there's always the prolific blooms of Crepe Myrtles!

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