I could eat pasta every night.
I could happily make pasta every day.
And if I could afford it, I'd have a daily prosciutto fix.
This, of course, leads to one of my favorite meals: fresh pasta with a very simple, VERY rich sauce of prosciutto, sage, cream and Parmesan. I recently had this particular craving, and though there was no sage in the garden (January... Yonkers...), I of course had the sage I'd dried in the Fall.
So... I sautéed some garlic in EVOO, added chicken stock and reduced it a bit, then added a good pinch of dried sage (even I don't go over the top with DRIED sage... it's really strong) and some heavy cream.
I let that bubble away while I cooked the fresh fettucine. Just before the pasta was done, I took it out of the water and added it to the sauce... keeping some pasta water reserved to thin the sauce if needed.
Then I tossed in the ribbons of prosciutto... not to cook, just to warm. When the pasta was ready, I turned off the heat... tossed in the Parmesan... and, to me, that's a true feast.
