This is your basic white clam sauce using manilla clams, which I dig a least a couple of times per year off one of the islands. Clam digging is an experience. Much like harvesting your garden, except kneeling on the wet, windy, sometimes cold beach up to your elbows in a hole you have dug (I use an oyster shell to dig with) that keeps filling with water. You are going by feel really, and I have spent a couple of hours at it at a time, that and picking oysters. The sauce i used last night was onions and garlic sauteed in olive oil and butter, added white wine and reduced the sauce; oregano, s&p, clam juice added. Toss in the clams and cover till they open. I added some parmegiano reggiano, finished with some cream, tossed with hot linguine, chopped italian parsley. We devoured it.
We spent half the day at the beach today, walking, walking. Lauryn and Josh playing Indie on the driftwood, Amelia "bored" until I let her have the camera and then she went nuts! Dave and I just enjoyed how warm it was, looked for seals we could hear but not see, watched the sun glint off the rocks, talked about camping and beach days (I have decided to bbq hotdogs on our first full beach day, at the beach). We then headed over to the rink and skated for 45 min, then had lunch at a little cafe, cauliflower soup...pretty good. We bought hamster food and litter, valentine stuff for the kids, and went home. Just lots of nothing, it was just what we needed. Once home I spent a couple of hours doing course stuff, working on my research paper. I have just had a run, and I am thinking of making herb souffles for supper on Tuesday, Mondays are too crazy for that, so we are having my slow simmered 6 vegetable pasta sauce, which I made yesterday. Off and running for the week after a perfect Sunday....
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