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Annette Laing's avatar

I'M GONNA DO IT, ALISON! I'm gonna take the anchovy challenge. I hate the look and smell, but darn it, it's time to woman up. Wish me luck.

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Lucy's avatar

I know this is such an airhead comment, but are your nails in the final pic Chanel rouge noir? Either way - they look great. And now I want to make an extremely fishy aglio olio peperoncino as a heavy, early supper.

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Matt H.'s avatar

This is kind of a tangent, but whyyyyy do recipes always use 12 ounces of pasta??? Pasta comes in 16 ounce boxes! The relevant amounts of pasta are 16 and 8! Who is keeping a bunch of quarter-full boxes of pasta in their pantry!

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SK's avatar

It's me, unfortunately.

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Alexis's avatar

Honestly, same.

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MissKAllDay's avatar

I love how your recipes add just a little something special. I make a version of this all the time, but the lemon and garlic topping took this to the next level delicious.

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Simone Le Bavoir's avatar

There's a bucatini shortage here in Québec, and all those bucatini pictures are making me sad. I haven't been able to get hold of a box in, like, a year. I'm sick of those stupid spaghettoni. I want all the bucatini, pleaseeeee.

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Yummy Omi's avatar

Made it tonight. Fabulous. Will make again. Used whole lemon with the minced garlic. Rather than just half (my goof). But we really liked it. Added a bit of EVOO on second helping bcz I guess I did not add enough pasta water.

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Heather's avatar

So I expected to make chicken for dinner last night but...surprise! It didn't thaw. This was an awesome pinch hitter even though the pasta I had was chickpea rotini. Definitely going into the rotation.

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Katherine Walecka's avatar

Ok I just made this with bucatini. I added parm. For the herb I used some tired parsley. The lemon and garlic garnish really makes it. Already excited for tomorrows leftovers!

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Mya's avatar

Made it and loved it!

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Katherine Walecka's avatar

Made this with flat leaf parsley as the herb, shallots and garlic but no onion, a butter/olive oil combo, and ridged mezze rigatoni as the pasta. I could not find my canned anchovies so I used some partially liquefied anchovies in oil from my fridge. I also chopped and toasted some walnuts at 350 for 8-12 min for the garnish. I used an Empty red pepper flake spice jar to store the lemon gremolata and it was the perfect size. This is one of the best things I have cooked this year. Pasta water is key.

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Katherine Walecka's avatar

Made this with an onion, radiatore pasta, fishwife anchovies and flat leaf parsley as my herb. I used herby bread crumbs leftover from a takeout salad as my add on, and pregrated parm. This recipe is a real confidence booster, and better the next day imho.

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Katherine Walecka's avatar

Enjoying this with bucatini, tarragon and parm. Truly the gift that keeps on giving, this pasta.

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