Budget childhood meal. Parsley from the garden, clams from a can. All out of linguine but sauce holding Fusilli was available.
Cost per person: $3.33 It, um,used to be cheaper. But canned protein costs have grown faster than inflation over the last 4 decades.
One of my favorite new cooking shows is Culinary Class Wars, and it introduced me to the concept of things being “easy to eat.”
Having things with wildly different sizes makes them harder to eat. I think pairing the clams with rotini would be a lot easier than spaghetti.
Looks delicious!
Yeah, the folds of the pasta can grab the clams a lot easier than a straight pasta. I’m thinking everyone before now has been doing it wrong if they are using linguini with chopped clams. Linguini makes sense if you are fishing whole clams out of a shell. But not if you are going with chopped or minced like you get out of a can.
I never liked spaghetti and preferred linguine as easier to fork up, but the older I get the more I like rotini for its sauce grabbing properties.
I liked angel hair because it cooked faster. But these days I’m reaching more and more for the rotini for that sauce hold.