If you made that fresh pea soup I described last week, and if you should happen to have leftovers — or if you liked it enough to make it again and purposefully plan for leftovers — this is an idea I gleaned from a comment on a Foodie site I browsed while deciding on my pea soup recipe: Use the leftover pea soup as a pasta sauce.
You could reduce the soup by simmering until it’s a bit thicker, if you’d like, and we decided it would suit us best with something like conchiglie (shell pasta), farfalle (bowtie/butterfly), or, best of all orecchiette (little ears, that always remind us of our time in Peschici, Puglia). You could grate some Parmesan over it or add a dollop of crème fraiche or go wild with some mascarpone or even burrata if you’re lucky enough to have a secret source. We kept ours pretty simple and served it as a carb complement to a (wild) salmon fillet and a baby spinach salad.
I have to be honest and tell you that Pater found the soup’s slight sweetness less convincing as a sauce. He might enjoy it better if I’d used more chicken stock in the soup and if I hadn’t added the fresh mint. If you try this, I’d love to know what you think.
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Such a lovely combination of colours!
I love salmon with broccoli
Dottoressa
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I am very conscientious about using leftovers, but I think my pea soup would definitely be too sweet to serve as a pasta sauce. Another reason for trying out your recipe.
I was thrilled by a remark in your last post about trails, and I already made a note to get Robert Moor's book. (A new institution in my study: there is now a small box reserved for book reviews and scraps of paper with titles I want to look up.) When I started hiking on one of the European Long Distance Trails, I realized that it was really a combination of many short trails, staked out by the locals of each region. In some cases that means a lot of silly detours, because people thought they had to lead you past all the sights of the area, but other stretches conicide with traditional roads and go straightforwardly from A to B. For a while I followed the footsteps of medieval peasants driving their cattle to the river to be shipped towards the city. I enjoyed feeling connected to them in a way.
That looks so delicious, although the pea soup may be a bit sweet for me for the sauce. I'll have to play with that idea though. I've added Robert Moor's book to my list.