Pasta alla Norma
/Enjoy the flavors of summer with this simple, vegetarian dish!
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Enjoy the flavors of summer with this simple, vegetarian dish!
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Read MoreI hardly ever order pasta in a restaurant. Especially in the United States. I mean, with some basic ingredients and a modicum of skill, one can recreate most pasta dishes found on most menus. But there are some pasta dishes that I'll order whenever I see them. Even if I spy lamb scottadito on the menu. Because they are so fabulous, and so hard to replicate, it feels like I won the lottery just finding them on the menu.
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