Linguini with Clam Sauce

Linguini with Clam Sauce

Linguini with Clam Sauce

INGREDIENTS

  • 2 pounds small clams in the shell, scrubbed clean
  • 1 15-ounce can of whole baby clams
  • 4 Tbsp olive oil
  • 1 medium yellow or white onion, chopped (about 1 cup)
  • 1 small or 1/2 large fennel bulb, chopped (about 1 cup)
  • 4 garlic cloves, chopped (4 teaspoons)
  • 1/3 cup ouzo, Sambuca, Pernod or other anise-flavored liqueur (optional)
  • 1 Tbsp tomato paste
  • 1 28-ounce can of crushed tomatoes
  • 1-2 teaspoons sugar
  • Salt
  • Fronds from the fennel bulb, minced
  • Linguini (can sub any long shaped pasta, like spaghetti or fettuccine)

METHOD

  1. Open the can of clams and strain the juice through a paper-towel-lined fine-meshed sieve into a bowl. Set both the juice and the clams aside.
  2. Heat the olive oil in a large pot or sauté pan over medium-high heat. Add the chopped onion and fennel bulb and sprinkle with a little salt. Stir well and sauté until translucent, about 4-5 minutes. Don’t brown them. Add the chopped garlic and sauté for another minute.
  3. Add the ouzo (if you’re using) to the pan and let it boil down until it’s almost completely evaporated. Add the tomato paste and stir well to coat the vegetables. Cook for a minute or two.
  4. Add the crushed tomatoes and the clam juice (strained from the can of clams) to the pot, along with a sprinkling of salt and the sugar. Stir well, turn the heat to a slow simmer and cook for 20 minutes. While the tomato sauce is cooking, heat a large pot of salted water for the pasta. If you would like a smooth sauce instead of chunky, ladle the sauce into a blender and purée it until smooth, then return to the pot.
  5. When the pasta water comes to a boil, start cooking the linguini pasta. Add the clams in the shell to the sauce pot. Submerge the clams in the sauce. Increase the sauce pot’s temperature up to a low boil or a strong simmer. It should take 3-5 minutes for all the clams to open. As the clams open, remove them to a bowl. Remove the clam meat from all but a few of the shells which you will want to save for a garnish. (Or keep the clam meat in the shells, your choice, we just find the dish easier to eat if most of the clams are already out of the shells.)
  6. When the pasta is ready, drain it and put it in a large bowl. Add the canned clams to the pasta sauce and return the formerly live clams to the sauce as well. Add the chopped fennel fronds and stir to combine.

To serve, ladle some sauce into the bowl with the pasta and mix well to combine. Use tongs to put some pasta on each plate, add a small spoonful of clam sauce on top and garnish with a few of the clams that are still in the shell. Serve at once.

Lying or Ingnorant

(via Balloon Juice)

I think that if there’s one thing that everyone in this room could agree on, that would be that Albert Einstein was a critical thinker. He was a scientist. I think that we probably could agree that Albert Enstein was smarter than any of our science teachers in our high schools or colleges. And Albert Einstein said that a little knowledge would turn your head toward atheism, while a broader knowledge would turn your head toward Christianity.
Frank S. Niceley (R-TN 17th District)

Albert Einstein, a secular Jew, did not say a little knowledge would turn your head toward atheism, while a broader knowledge would turn your head toward Christianity.

Niceley is also a birther

Here’s some actual Einstein Quotes:

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
— Albert Einstein

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else — unless it is an enemy.
— Albert Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.
— Albert Einstein

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
— Albert Einstein

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.
— Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.
— Albert Einstein

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
— Albert Einstein

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
— Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
— Albert Einstein

We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.
— Albert Einstein

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
— Albert Einstein

The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.
— Albert Einstein

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
— Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
— Albert Einstein

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