The market and three super quick pasta dishes

Posted by petra08 on July 10, 2017 · 8 Comments 

I can’t believe I am already on the fifth month of having the market stall! Time has gone so fast, I haven’t had a Saturday off and I feel I am sort of getting the hang of this.

 

Ever since I decided to do the market stall I have been met with amazing support. A friend even gave me his gazebo. It was one of those you would usually erect once a year for a garden party, sadly not a great one to cope with the winds at a market. I felt terrible when one day it sounded something like “ping ping ping ping” and it fell apart. I have to have a gazebo so it was time to take a deep breath and buy a professional one. I think my friend had expected this and wasn’t upset at all, phew! The new gazebo barely moves in the wind, and it is always windy at the market, and I feel quite sheltered under it, watching the world go by, being social and selling my goods.

 

 

I love people watching and here almost everyone has a dog, so I guess it is dog watching as well from my stall. Some owners really do look like their dogs. There is a small number of Swedes living here and I feel as if they have started to appear on a more regular basis, shouting “Hej!”, stopping for a chat in Swedish, sometimes picking up a hot sauce or pasta.

There are tasters of the hot sauce and I love to watch people sample it. Especially those who just looove hot and proclaim they really can take it. Most of them don’t make it past the medium hot sauce, there is no need to steer them towards the very hot, hot sauce but it is fun to watch.

A gentleman came past and he used to measure chilli heat on the scoville scale. We had a very interesting conversation and apparently my very hot, hot sauce was bang on the scale in terms of expected heat.

 

I am getting a routine for the market and usually Wednesday is pre planning and shopping day for anything that will not go off.

On Thursdays I start preparing as well as making Carta di Musica, the flatbreads. They are gaining in popularity but take quite a long time to make. Original Carta Di Musica are plain but after some testing and experimenting I prefer them seeded and I also add a little cheese for flavor. They are great on their own, with cheese or just some butter.

 

 

I can also prepare some of the pasta flavorings, I make different pasta every week and here is an example. Depending on what goes in the pasta it needs to be pureed, toasted or ground and each week I am so grateful for my wet and dry spice grinder.

 

 

I make the pasta, the tomato sauce and savory sprinkles on the Friday to make sure it is as fresh as possible. The pasta is so fresh it cooks in a minute. I am sharing some ideas below that enables you to cook, and serve dinner in five minutes. I am not joking, you will have a complete, home cooked meal much faster than any take away. Each of the recipes works with any pasta of your preference.

The fresh pasta cooks in three simple steps

• separate the pasta strands gently with your fingers
• shake off any excess semolina
• place in a large pan with salted, boiling water for 1-1½ minute (or the amount started on the packet)

 

The easiest way is to add lots of grated cheese, in this case grated Parmesan cheese on wild rocket spaghetti. Just tuck in and enjoy.

 

 

Beetroot pasta looks great and tastes great with cooked sliced beetroot. I did a beetroot and chilli tagliatelle.

 

 

I had a cooked beetroot in the fridge and added it to the cooked pasta with seeded Parmesan.

 

 

For the last pasta I used crispy chorizo sprinkles in a carbonara style dish. I had a cocoa and chilli tagliatelle, one of my favorites and I did a carbonara style dish.

 

 

I cooked the pasta and placed a small knob of butter in the bottom of a pasta plate. I placed the cooked pasta on top with a little of the cooking water, mixed everything and then sprinkled over the chorizo and added an egg yolk.

 

 

Mix everything and tuck in.

Fresh pasta might be the ultimate fast food

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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