Thursday: Vegetables and pasta

Given the quantity of vegetables that we needed to eat in order to clear out the fridge for this week's biokiste, tonight was definitely vegetables with pasta and not the other way around.

We started with a tomato-ginger soup. For the soup Andrea put some tomatoes through the food mill (medium disc), added microplaned ginger, salt, pepper, some mirin to balance it, and a bit of cream to bring it together.

Our main course was a bunch of vegetables cooked with diced smoked bacon. I started the bacon in olive oil until it started to brown, then added onion, garlic, and some chopped fennel. When those softened, I added zucchini (cut into planks), seasoned it, added a few dried piri-piri peppers, tossed well, and covered the pan. After the zucchini started to soften, I added some coarsely chopped basel and cooked until the zucchini was finished. We ate this next to Hörnli (elbow macaroni).

As a side, I "pan steamed" some green beans (cooking them covered over medium heat with a bit of oil, a few sprigs of savory, white pepper, and salt). I poured in some cream a couple minutes before serving and cooked until that was reduced away.

Wine: R. Gilliard 2006 Fendant de Sions (Les Murettes). quite a nice Swiss white.