Lily's Birthday and Pasta Sauce Recipe and more at chefshop.com/enews EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBER 5% OFF CODE birthday  Recipes | Chef's Pantries | Shop for Food & Ingredients | Food Blog Easy! A pasta Sauce that anyone can make that is delish. For over 11 years we have been making pasta for my “niece” on her birthday. It’s a food ritual that I hope goes on forever...though it’s her sweet 16 this year and life changes a lot at this age & going forward. The heart of the meal lies in the sauce. Over time the formula has evolved to include just a few key ingredients and a lot of leeway on quantity for everything else. Though not a classic tomato Italian based sauce, it has become a favorite recipe. Anyone can make this with great success. Be sure to make enough and plan on at least 3 hours of simmering. Even better all day or 2 days to be just right. Pick here to see the recipe! * Rega Rega San Marzano DOP Tomatoes! While the tomato originated in the New World and didn't make it to Italy until the 17th century, it made up for lost time quickly! Not only is Italian cuisine, of course, renowned for tomatoes, but the San Marzano region near Naples is considered one of the best tomato-growing regions in the world – a true tomato heaven! These are the real thing, certified from the Sarnese-Nocerino area. Shop now for San Marzano DOP tomatoes! * Hot Controne Pepper Flakes – Hand Ground Air dried, hand ground hot peppers from Italy. Shop now for Hot peppers! * Dark Muscovado Sugar Muscovado is a soft, moist, fine brown sugar. It's also known as Barbados sugar, where it was once made, but ours comes from the island of Mauritius off the African coast. While most brown sugar these days is made by combining already-refined sugar with added molasses-like syrup, this is the real thing: a less refined product with rich, complex flavor. Shop now for Sugar! * 12 year Old Balsamic Vinegar Red Seal What Gourmet Magazine says. "Antica Acetaia San Giacomo's 12-year old balsamic vinegar has a complex taste and a thick, syrupy texture that trump older vintages we've tried." Shop now for San Giacomo Balsamic 12 yr Red Seal! * Fish Sauce – All you need is a drop or two Fish sauce has all the things that I don't like in a fresh fish. Stinky, which is the smell of fermentation, is big and vibrant in a strong kind of way. It’s a magical concoction, a potion for your food, so it really qualifies in the truest definition of an elixir. Though not so tasty to the tongue in flavor, it’s really hard to think of the brew that way, romance is what “elixir” means to me, and thus less fishy and more, well, sweetly romantic. Shop now for Fish Sauce * Lumachine! We brought ten different shapes for the Birthday Girl to choose from and she chose this one without hesitation. Shop here for Lumachine Pasta! * Bucatini Pasta! The hollow pasta Bucatini pasta is thicker than spaghetti and the center of each long strand is hollow – think of a drinking straw. Sapori di Napoli bucatini is thicker than the average store-bought version, and superior ingredients and traditional production methods give it exceptional flavor and texture. Its drinking-straw shape allows sauces not just to coat the pasta, but to get all the way inside the tubes, too...the better to maximize the melding of pasta and sauce! Shop now for Bucatini Pasta! * Pasta Ala Carbonara Recipe A spice twist on a classic recipe using Mama Lil's Peppers based on Michael Natkin's video, fabulous website and cookbook Herbavoracious. Pasta ala Carbonara Recipe! * Organic Chocolate Chips The Best Chocolate Chips for cookies! Shop now for Organic Italian Chocolate Chips! * Jams & Jellies! Jams, Jellies, Fruit Spread, Conserves, Marmalade, mostly all different and in the end you might like one over the other, yet mostly it's fruit that is preserved. One might be more suited for a cheese or a pork chop, or more classically for a piece of toast, yet, in the end all will do all. Shop the aisle of Jams & Jellies! Cooking Classes Havana Nights - Cuban Cooking Class Do you think Cuban food is spicy? Wrong! Cuban cuisine has its own unique set of full-bodied flavors influenced by the mix of cultures, including African, Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish. So, whether this is your first taste of Cuban cooking, or you've been enjoying this cuisine for years, you won't want to miss this class! Chef will share some Cuban Classics like, Tostones (Fried Plantains), Moros and Cristianos (black beans and rice), Ropa Vieja (shredded beef), and Pastelitos. Havana Nights - Cuban Cooking Class, Special Pricing for Newsletter readers! Store Hours Monday thru Saturday 10AM to 5PM. Come stock your Essential Baking Pantry!! ChefShop.com 1425 Elliott Ave W Seattle, Wa 98119 206-286-9988 Store Parking The big one is much easier to park in. Click here to see the map.   This Week's Recipes Butternut Squash Soup with Hazelnut Oil Recipe Theirry, of Rover's Restaurant in Seattle, is an amazing chef. His cookbook, Rover's Recipes from Seattle's Chef in the Hat is always a delight to read -- and very fun to try. Theirry has a flair for fancy. But I tend to simplify the presentations -- which are designed for his very fancy restaurant patrons. Either way -- his recipes are a delight to cook, and always impress. Pasta with Garlic & Olive Oil Recipe So simple and, oh, so good! The key, as with all simple Italian recipes, is having the right ingredients -- the right olive oil, the right garlic, and the right pasta! Verjus Mint Sorbet Recipe Verjus is a nice, lightly acidic alternative to lemon juice. Many chefs like it because it does not conflict with their wine selection. 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