SARDEEEENZ

yeaaaaah that's right. SARDEENZ!

this is my comfort food dish du jour (for the past 100 jours). SARDINES! who knew?!

i am FILIPINO but my dad doesn't eat meat so i love a little salty fish (see tilapia and bangus aka milkfish). when my sister and i went to paris in college, pops told us that if we always kept a pack of sardines in our backpacks, we'd have an instant meal anywhere, well-accompanied with a baguette and a bottle of wine. i've never forgotten that lesson and expect to pass it on to my own brats someday.

mais ouis, this recipe is from the minimalist. he has a fine article and even a video on how to make this, and i direct you to them both.



the key is to get good sardines in olive oil - i have used trader joes' sardines in olive oil and bucatini from the corner store, and it works beautifully. this time, however, i used a pack of sardines i brought back from greece in may especially for this dish.

throw some bread into your food processor and then fry the crumbs in a bit of olive oil. then sautee some chopped onion, then throw in the sardines, capers, and lemon zest.



throw in some pasta (here i used trader joe's brown rice spaghetti, which warrants a whole other post someday - that's sticky al-dente-ness! try it!) and some parsley. so delicious. and you're ready to go in ten minutes.