{"id":4,"date":"2007-05-27T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2018-06-19T22:13:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T22:13:11","slug":"saturday-may-26-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/saturday-may-26-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"After Movie Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inspiration:<\/span> I needed a dish that required only reheating at 9:30pm after seeing the movie “Waitress”. I had some ricotta in the refrigerator that was about to expire and some ground beef in the freezer from a prior dinner that I wanted to use up. I also had some multi-grain penne — so what recipe would work for these ingredients?<\/p>\n

\nResearch:<\/span> I first looked at Foodnetwork.com<\/a> and considered a recipe by Giada de Laurentis but didn’t want to fry a bunch of meatballs. So I then went to Epicurious<\/a> but found no inspiration. I opened Dashboard on my Mac and typed “Pasta Ricotta Beef” into Google since those were the ingredients I had to work with. The Google search revealed this recipe at Cooks.com<\/a> which I adapted.<\/p>\n

Shopping:<\/span> Ingredients came from Trader Joe’s<\/a>, Safewa<\/a>y and a little market next to where I had my nails done earlier in the afternoon which had some really good mozzarella.<\/p>\n

Amendments:<\/span> The recipe called for canned tomatoes and I substituted fresh hot house tomatoes. The salad recipe I used was in Food and Wine. It called for spinach, plums, basil with a dressing of orange and lemon zests, juices, etc. I made the dressing exactly but had spring greens and apricots so used those instead of spinach and plums. It was great!<\/p>\n

Ambiance:<\/span> We listened to Tangents Radio<\/a>. Host Dore Stein played sensual acoustic Mediterranean music.<\/p>\n

Prep Time: 1+ hours
\nCooking Time: 13 minutes
\nCost: about $20
\nWine: Ravenswood<\/a> Old Vine Zinfandel from Lodi 2004 $9.99 (coincidentally, this wine is featured in the June issue of Gourmet as a recommended wine)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"