Recipe: Yummy Saturday night pasta

Saturday night pasta. Saturday Night Pasta is therapy for the modern-day food lover, teaching self-care through the humble act of making pasta. Like the practice of meditation, making pasta by hand is a way of achieving. One Saturday night, following a grey, unremarkable day, I felt compelled to lose myself in a task.

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Ingredients of Saturday night pasta

1. Prepare 3/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil.
2. Prepare 3 of garlic cloves, minced.
3. It's 1 tsp of dry Italian seasoning.
4. You need 1/2 tsp of red pepper flakes.
5. You need 1/2 tsp of fennel seeds.
6. You need 350 g of shrimp, peeled and deveined.
7. You need 450 g of dry linguine.
8. It's 250 g of mini San Marzano tomatoes.
9. You need 1 of packed cup baby greens (I used kale and spinach).

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Saturday night pasta step by step

1. In a mixing bowl, whisk the olive oil, garlic, Italian seasoning, fennel seeds, and pepper flakes with a good pinch of salt. Stir in the shrimp, then put the bowl in the fridge for 30 minutes to marinate..
2. Drop the noodles into a large pot of boiling salted water. When the noodles are 5 or 6 minutes away from being cooked, move on to cooking the shrimp..
3. Add a splash of olive oil to a large pan on high heat. Throw in the tomatoes and sear them for 2 minutes until they're slightly scorched and have given up some of their juice. Pour in the shrimp and marinade and continue frying for about 3 minutes, until the shrimp are just cooked..
4. Drag the cooked pasta into the pan of shrimp sauce. Add the baby greens and give everything a toss to coat. When serving, drizzle a little more extra virgin olive oil on top..

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