GENO! I hope you won't vendetta me now or something.
Mr. Jim, that dish brings back some good, albeit misplaced, memories. When I was a kid my parents were very lax with the religious dietary restrictions. No pork in the house but pretty much everything else was a wink and a nod, especially shellfish. My dad claimed it was because we lived next to the ocean, so we could eat things like crab, shrimp and clams. My favorite dish of all time was linguini with clam sauce, and that dish of pasta made me think about linguini with clams. If I could eat shellfish again, it would be the first dish I made and it would look like your picture, only with clams. Maybe it's because today was a fast day but dang, that looks good.
It turned out pretty good!
Talk us through the prep
My best olive oil and 4 big cloves of garlic. Cooked a bit and added two shallots. Red pepper. Plus the oil out of the sardines.
Pint and a half of cherry tomato....cooked and smashed most of them.
Little salt and pepper.
Added sardines a few minutes before the almost cooked spaghetti. Fresh basil.
Added pasta water to bring sauce together and finished noodles in sauce.
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