Monday, September 3, 2012

Fare La Scarpetta: Founding Farmers Restaurant in D.C. and Laico's ...

Founding Farmers' Stray and Hay?

When I was a kid, my grandparents used to take me to eat at?Laico's Italian Restaurant in Jersey City, New Jersey. I would always order the "straw and hay" pasta. A ginormous dish of pasta with a creamy sauce, bacon and peas would come out and I'm pretty sure I always ate the whole thing.? Founding Farmers Restaurant in Washington, D.C., offers a delicious version of this dish with homemade, wide noodles. They add in some vegetables for good measure: asparagus and mushrooms. While a heavy pasta dish isn't a recommended hot-summer's-day meal, it was worth a taste of childhood.? To prepare your own Stray and Hay pasta dish, you might try Wolfgang Puck's recipe, with or without the two types of pasta (two types seems a little fussy.) I think I'll be returning to my childhood the next time I'm in New Jersey for Laico's (updated?) version of "Paglia e Fieno" with shrimp and scallops and some vodka thrown in for good measure.?
Photos from our Founding Farmers brunch:

Deviled Eggs

Super spicy Bloody Marys and Beignets with three sauces?

(raspberry, chocolate and caramel)

Eggs Benedict

Red Velvet Cake


Source: http://farelascarpetta.blogspot.com/2012/09/founding-farmers-restaurant-in-dc-and.html

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