The modern housewife

Yesterday it was mine and my fiancee's 9 anniversary. To celebrate this I made a romantic dinner with home-made pasta. With that I made a sauce with shrimps, saffron and mascarpone. It was really, really good and it was a perfect dinner for a special occasion like this one. I also made a dessert, mango and passionfruit sorbet which I will write about a little bit later.


Photo by Anna Nasstrom, The Modern Housewife.

For 2 people
Pasta :
3 decilitres of flour
1 egg
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1/2 teaspoon pf salt
1/2 decilitre of water

Mix all the ingredients in a food processor.
Put it in the fridge for 1-2 hours.
After 1-2 hours, make spaghetti like pasta, about 3-4 mm in diameter and put them on baking paper.
Cook in salted water, for 3 minutes.

Shrimp and mascarpone sauce :
2 shallot onions
2 cloves of garlic
olive oil
1/2 gram of saffron
200 grams of mascarpone
1/2 vegetable stock
4 teaspoons of grated lime peel
2-3 tablespoons of limejuice
100 grams of shrimps
salt, pepper

Cut onion and garlic.
Fry it in a pan until golden.
Add saffron, mascarpone and vegetable stock.
Let it simmer for a couple of minutes.
Add lime peel, limejuice and shrimps.
Just let everything get warm.
Serve with the home-made pasta.