This afternoon we discussed heading into downtown to pick up an Apple TV and grabbing dinner somewhere. “Oh wait,” said Suzanne, “It’s Valentine’s Day. Everything will be packed.” Having eschewed the occasion… really, pick one day to be nice to each other? Fuck, people, Bill & Ted had it right “be excellent to each other”. And that means all the time. Not just one arbitrary day a year picked by a greeting card company. Anyway, I digress. We decided to go out on Monday instead (see tomorrow’s post).

So that left us with dinner to make. Improvisation time. I knew there were anchovies left from a previous meal. And we had green olives (ok.. we had kalamatas as well.. unknown to me). And capers. Oh! @daksis gave me some Faro pasta to try. It’s starting to sound something like Linguine alla Puttanesca. No tomatoes. No problem: use some tomato paste. Garlic, onions.

So that’s what I did. Very close to a classic puttanesca: