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a rainy nigella day. today's lunch with wingtai took a good three hours to cook. it was another recipe from nigella bites. pasta and meatballs; luckily the pasta was not made from scratch - i imagine that would take another two hours.
the meatballs made by mashing together minced pork and beef, garlic, oregano, black pepper and egg. the uncooked meatballs smelled quite nice, but it's not very nice to be mashing your fingers through the mixture...
the most interesting item in the recipe was the tomato passata. at first i thought it was just a fanciful name for tomato paste, but there was actually such a thing as passata being sold. turns out, it's just tomato purée.
grinding the garlic and onion in a hand-crank machine. omg it is such a great invention; if you tried to mince garlic by knife, which is what weijie and i did yesterday, you would die trying.
frying the garlic and onions, then pouring in the passata to make the sauce. next, the meatballs were dropped into the sauce to simmer until cooked through.
pasta and meatballs! i've eaten a lot in the past two days. in particular, i've eaten a lot of garlic in the past two days. and although i feel so full, there's some empty feeling inside me.