orecchiette with broccoli

What to do with week old broccoli that has spawned a brother, courtesy of Mrs Taylor's sojourn here? Luckily I was tempted by a recipe I saw when I was flicking through a few old copies of Delicious. It seemed the obvious thing to cook although with the usual caveats of the challenging nature of anchovies, and as Milo Magic was going to get the leftovers (like he's some sort of dog), I couldn't cook it with chilli.

It goes okay until the anchovy dissolving part, which actually *does* 95% work, but I use too much of the pasta water in the sauce so it's runny rather than thick. And the bloody pasta is slightly over-cooked. It's okay though, even Ana concedes it's 'alright'.


She has of course changed her mind by Sunday, which is a shame as we've got a shoal of anchovies and half a kilo of orecchiette in the cupboard.

Food of the Milos
His pseudo-chicken pox have knocked his sleeping and eating out so he's up at stupid o'clock for milk, goes back for an hour or so before we're all up for a hideously early breakfast, which he doesn't really eat.

After a trip to the Farmer's Market and to see the ducks in the rain, he has a cheese on toast for lunch, something he's normally ignored but eats most of this time, and then pizza for dinner. Again he eats most of it, but he must be ill because it's usually one of his favorites. Luckily his mother and I heroically help him out.

sources
orecchiette with broccoli - Delicious, May 2008, p62
pizza - Top 100 Finger Foods, Annabel Karmel