pasta social club

1 week ago | pastasocialclub.substack.com | Meryl Feinstein

Here’s a well-rounded, weeknight-ready dish to make all summer long. It’s inspired by a recipe from the only cookbook I actually use on a regular basis: The Magic of Tinned Fishby Chris McDade. I know I’m not alone in harboring an extensive cookbook collection, one that’s less tastefully curated and more crazy hoarder. I also know I’m not alone in the fact that I rarely cook from any of them.

2 weeks ago | pastasocialclub.substack.com | Meryl Feinstein

Yesterday, I turned 35. I’m not one to give birthdays much weight, but this one felt big, like I’d officially crossed some invisible threshold from less-real adulthood into real-real adulthood. Like many of my generation, I have yet to check off most traditional real-real-adulthood milestones like having a kid or a house or a white picket fence—but I still feel different, in some minute, inexplicable way.

3 weeks ago | pastasocialclub.substack.com | Meryl Feinstein

Today I’m taking some R&R after an especially busy few weeks, so instead of our usual programming, I thought I’d share one of my favorite sauces from my cookbook, Pasta Every Day: a very delicious, very refreshing citrus & pistachio pesto.

1 month ago | pastasocialclub.substack.com | Meryl Feinstein

I often talk about pasta like it’s a living, breathing thing, an old friend with thoughts and feelings and very outspoken opinions. And if I were more scientifically inclined, I might try to convince you that pasta is, in fact, just like us, with its own taxonomic classifications. Because pasta is not one thing, but hundreds of things, and those things can, more or less, be categorized by what they look like and how they’re made.

1 month ago | pastasocialclub.substack.com | Meryl Feinstein

Lasagne is one of those dishes that comfortably falls into the All-Day, Probably Winter Cooking category—but what if it didn’t? Today I’m sharing a recipe that might change your mind about what a lasagne could be (and what it doesn’t have to be—see: all-day, probably winter), a lasagne that’s designed for warm weather and hails from the stunning Italian Riviera: lasagne alla Portofino. Like many lasagne, lasagne alla Portofino is made with tender sheets of pasta and creamy béchamel.