Mine is not a food blog but I thought that I might share this one with you.
Tonight I was allowed into the kitchen and prepared a seafood pasta…
Ingredients..
Spaghetti for 2
packet of cooked mussels from ALDI – £1.79
Ten scallops from ALDI – about £1.50
Frozen Seafood selection from ALDI – about .70
Frozen Clams from ALDI – about £1.00
Half a large onion
Little bit of garlic
Homemade Focaccia Bread – about .25p
Sweat the onions and the garlic
Prepare the spaghetti
Add the seafood to the onions
Add the spaghetti
Total cooking time – about 10 minutes
Serve immediately with a slice of lemon and a sprinkle of parmesan cheese.
And a bottle of Primitivo from ALDI – £4.95
Delicious, If I close my eyes I am in Puglia.
Have Bag, Will Travel 
I hit “like” out of respect for you liking the food . . . me? Anything other (or more) than lightly buttered and salted, and pasta is ruined.
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But surely you eat something with the pasta? Man cannot live by pasta alone!
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Not when I’m eating pasta, and certainly not in the pasta. Sacrilege, that is.
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You’ve made me hungry now. I bought my Italian relative (by marriage) a bread maker for Christmas and I now get regular supplies of Focaccia and Ciabatta and I always have Primitivo in stock (plus Nero d’Avolo) so I’m all set!
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All you need is the seafood mix!
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Impressive Mr Petcher!
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It looks delicious. I was wondering about the amount of onion in the recipe, which is actually an unusual ingredient, as we , Italians, use mostly garlic with seafood pasta. Buon appetito!
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Just half a regular brown onion. It seems to work. An English twist on an Italian classic.
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Just the one question. What happened to dry January???!
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OOPS!
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To be fair I didn’t have a Peroni!
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You realise that now, unlike the swimming in your post a few weeks back, you won’t be receiving your dry January certificate!!
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I can live without it!
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It’s become dry February in our house. At the rate we’re going we might manage a dry April… No, it’s not going to happen, is it? 😦 Notice you pushed the boat out for the wine, Andrew. Makes all the difference 🙂 🙂
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Worth paying that extra .50p Jo
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Dry January lasted two weeks, but this January seems to be going on forever.
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As I just said, I am virtuously drinking coffee…. Maybe later 🤣💕
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Coffee is very, very bad for you!
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🤣🤣
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It’s a struggle this month.
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Soon be over but I don’t want to wish my life away!
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Dry January? With Covid running riot? You’ve gotta be joking.
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It is close enough to February to abandon it!
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Wow, this sounds delicious!Totally agree, Mari!
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Simple too. My kind of cooking.
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Well, these days I’m very much for simple!
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Thanks Sue.
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I put two comments together….ah well. Anyways, your pasta dish would do me!
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Sounds great and washed down with the bottle of red what better way to spend a night
thanks for sharing
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Thanks for stopping by!
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You got Peggy’s mouth watering, Andrew. She’s an anything seafood kind of girl. Mussels aren’t a favorite of mine and I prefer clams be cut up and added to chowder, or possibly smoked. Hats off to your culinary adventure, however! –Curt
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Nothing better than a good seafood platter!
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🙂
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I will go along with the seafood pasta but will used a muscadet S/M ::)
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A good choice I am sure!
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oh, this looks amazing!
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Tasted good too. Thanks
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Were your pots, pans and glasses from the centre aisle, Aldi-man? If I didn’t know better I would have thought this post was sponsored by a German supermarket company! To be serious though – it looks good.
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I am a fan of ALDI and it is just close by!
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Me too!
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This looks very good. Too bad hubby is allergic to seafood. But I can always make him something else. Thanks!
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Inconvenient allergy.
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I like the simplicity, but I don’t like mussels, and, if I’m truthful, I don’t like seafood 😦 Just fish! And not with pasta 🙂 🙂
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and never on a pizza,
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True! 🙂 🙂
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Foccacia, you say? I’ll have some of that! 🙂
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Did somebody say “Just Eat”!
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🙂 🙂
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Looks good. I am a seafood lover. And the Primitivo reminds me of my time in Puglia. I always feel compelled to drink an Italian red whenever I have Italian food, no matter what it is.
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It has to be done.
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That looks good
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Thanks Derrick. All my own work. I am not allowed near the cooking end of the kitchen all that often.
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🙂
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This seems at odds with. your just-published post about the joys of the fresh fish market! Looks good though, and I would make it if ‘im indoors would eat mussels. Or clams. Or scallops.
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I like the managed markets rather than the dockside. Oh dear, my seafood pasta wouldn’t suit then!
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I wish it would though *sigh*
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Pasta marinara is lovely, but my favourite fish dish is a paella 🥘 and a good NZ Sav Blanc.
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I prefer a meat paella but a seafood risotto.
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I always have chicken in my paella, but yes, seafood risotto is also good.
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