There's another first here in the Mission suburbs. I've cooked my first full dinner since The Dragon Boss' arrival. It was comfort fare, spicy linguini with clams, with my go-to ingredient, pasta, but Baleen style, heavy on everything else, lighter on the pasta. The everything else, in this case, came from our new favorite store, Sun Fat Seafood over on Mission by 22nd. Grizzly saw it on one of his many, I'm off to the Mission, walks while he was here and he said it looked Whole Foods quality at a fraction of the price; Yelp just confirmed it.
So it's two pounds of rinsed and scrubbed live clams to go along with a half pound of pasta, a 4:1 ratio in favor of everything else (not including the cheese, tomatoes, clam juice and parsley) over the pasta. That's the inverted ratio of our topsy-turvy life right now, very different from how things used to be back in 2005, back before Baleen and The Dragon Boss when the everything else would get as close to my pound of pasta as the vermouth would to Hitchcock's martinis*.
The Dragon Boss will get his share around 1am, unless I give him the bottle then which means he'll have to wait until tomorrow for some clams. That makes clams his newest fish, following lots of salmon, sole, halibut and shrimp, while he still hasn't had what the Bay Area's famous for, the dungeness crab, or the lobstah his mom grew up on. There's plenty of time for all that.
*The closest I want vermouth to my martini is staring at the bottle across the room, Alfred Hitchcock, a quote normally attributed to Winston Churchill, who said about the martini that The only way to make a martini is with ice-cold gin, and a bow in the direction of France.
So it's two pounds of rinsed and scrubbed live clams to go along with a half pound of pasta, a 4:1 ratio in favor of everything else (not including the cheese, tomatoes, clam juice and parsley) over the pasta. That's the inverted ratio of our topsy-turvy life right now, very different from how things used to be back in 2005, back before Baleen and The Dragon Boss when the everything else would get as close to my pound of pasta as the vermouth would to Hitchcock's martinis*.
The Dragon Boss will get his share around 1am, unless I give him the bottle then which means he'll have to wait until tomorrow for some clams. That makes clams his newest fish, following lots of salmon, sole, halibut and shrimp, while he still hasn't had what the Bay Area's famous for, the dungeness crab, or the lobstah his mom grew up on. There's plenty of time for all that.
*The closest I want vermouth to my martini is staring at the bottle across the room, Alfred Hitchcock, a quote normally attributed to Winston Churchill, who said about the martini that The only way to make a martini is with ice-cold gin, and a bow in the direction of France.
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