a carbonated recipe

This week's Resolution Recipe: Pasta Carbonara

This recipe's name comes from "the fact that the meat was first cooked over charcoal in the old days." Interestingly enough (at least to me), there are late 16th century recipes for "carbanadoes of beef" that have the same derivation.
( I have to find recipes for all this pancetta )

bonacorsi and I went to the sale at Britex (made it out without breaking the budget) and had lunch at Plouf, since it was a nice enough day to sit outside and enjoy the bistro atmosphere. Good mussels as usual, even if they gave me the wrong dish (Mariniere instead of Provencale - garlic and lemon broth instead of tomato).

What I'm reading: Elizabeth Moon, Marque and Reprisal