Snow Day Pasta!

When did snow and bad weather turn into a massive run on grocery stores for milk and bread? I was around for the “great snow” of 1982, but I remember we always had enough food in the house to live for a month. I accept the fact that it may not have been what I wanted, but it was sustenance.

My plans of going to the store today for soup ingredients got scuttled, but instead of panicking, I decided to get creative and make something from my pantry and freezer.

I went back to a recipe I found in the New York Times that I had been meaning to make for a while. It was a butternut squash pasta with brown butter bread crumbs. It was a multilayered cooking event, but the end result looked like mac and cheese, but instead was a creamy butternut squash sauce. The addition of panko briefly cooked in brown butter was the perfect topping for this delicious pasta dish. Take that French toast!