Choy Love Club: Salt and vinegar pasta salad
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This week, I’ve had salt and vinegar on my mind. When it’s hot and cloying, as it has been in NYC this week, I naturally seek acid to awaken my taste buds. I used this preoccupation to develop my ultimate pasta salad, one that you will return to, again and again. This vinegary and salty pasta salad offers layers of tang. It’s an easy weeknight dinner, a great sharing salad to bring to a gathering, or a good menu planning option -make and keep, to enjoy throughout the week.
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NEWS
EVENT: Saturday July 15th, 2023 @ 1:30PM - 2:30 PM
I’ll be in conversation with Kiera Wright-Ruiz to launch her kids picture book called I Want to Be Spaghetti! Come celebrate Kiera and learn about her a funny debut about how one little ramen packet finds self-love and belonging in a spaghetti-obsessed world. Register here.
Saturday July 15th, 2023 @ 1:30PM - 2:30 PM
THIS WEEK
Cook Bloody Mary tomatoes! If you’re living with tomato season right now and looking for THE tomato salad to make on repeat, save this recipe. For the past few years, I come up with a new, craveable tomato salad for the New York Times Cooking each summer. There was this zesty and herby tamarind-spiked one, and this one served with feta and a no-cook ‘crumble’, or this panzanella-inspired one without bread but with crispy gnocchi instead, not to mention this recent, extremely popular one with pan-fried dumplings. Now, I have this one based upon the flavours of Bloody Mary - serving suggestion, add pasta for a very happy, hearty salad.
Also cook potatoes for dinner! My Voraciously Plant Powered II newsletter this week was all about how to eat spuds for dinner, with two unconventional recipes that you are going to love. I’ve roasted potatoes and served with a silky Cantonese-style corn sauce, and then I’ve revved up sweet potatoes with this flavour bursting Chinese black bean sauce (this sweet potato dish was one of my favourites from the whole series! Seriously good).
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Eat self-saucing sticky date and butterscotch pudding! If you’re somewhere in the world where you are looking for a simple, cozy dessert, this is for you. My self-saucing sticky date and butterscotch pudding, new to ABC Everyday this month, is a homey pudding that reminds me distinctly of Australia. The recipe combines two of my favourite desserts — sticky date pudding and butterscotch self-saucing pudding — into one stunning treat.
Watch Wham! documentary on Netflix. I held a viewing party for one (in truth, my daughter did stay and watch with me) the other night and I was mesmerized. Being a Wham! and George Michael devotee, I thought I had seen and heard everything there is to know about this duo. But this doco has lots of unseen archival footage, demo recordings, interviews and stories from Andrew Ridgeley…not to mention a look into Andrew’s mum’s covetable scrapbook collection (I have my own scrapbook which now feels very lacking). Most of all, the doco is a story of a really beautiful friendship and the fleeting energy of youth.