A HUGE Winter Storm & A Dinner You Will Love! Homemade Garlic Bread Recipe!

[Music] good morning everyone thank you for joining me again we had a fair amount of snow here last night and to celebrate we're going to take a short walk in the garden first I need my coffee also we're going to bring in some firewood and we will make a beautiful dinner that we can enjoy in front of the fire let me finish my coffee and then we will head [Music] outside in the comments below let me know whether or not you enjoy snow I'm okay with it as long as it does not interfere with travel I love my garden in all seasons and particularly so in Winter a blanket of white emphasizes the geometric shapes here in the boxwood Garden it also emphasizes tall structures like trees and fountains I purchased the two fountains you see here about 20 years ago The Fountains provide architectural interest in All Seasons even when water is not flowing from them [Music] here is the serpentine Garden that I designed on a steep slope you've seen me sit and drink coffee on a bench in this Garden during the warm weather months the bench is also a good place for winter meditation I just wish that I had brought along my mug of hot [Music] coffee at the top of the hill is my kitchen Garden about 12 weeks from now you and I will begin planting here I can't wait the temperature is plummeting now let's head back to the kitchen now for a warming dinner tonight we're doing penet pasta with peas parsley bacon and mint I have all of the ingredients except for the parsley and mint so let's make a quick trip to the local Farm Store when we wake the birds and see the sun side side our fears are done all the good time just [Music] begun before we buy any food items I first want to check out the garden supplies in one of the Berry Farm's greenh houses I will show you what I purchased when we return [Music] home now I need some parsley and mint these herbs are grown in climate controlled green houses right here at the [Music] farm we are home again and I wanted to explain to you why I purchased the vermiculite and the African violet potting mix it's because in the next video we are going to tidy up the grow room that you and I created together last year we're going to start planting seeds and we're going to pot up a lot of the African Violets that I propagated last summer let me put these away I need to bring in firewood and then we can get cracking on tonight's dinner I have a big pot of water coming to a boil behind me and I decided that in addition to the pasta with parsley peas bacon and mint we should also have some garlic bread so I have some French bread here which I'm going to cut in half it's only two of us for dinner so I don't think I need all of this I'll do half I love homemade garlic bread I should have used my bread knife for this and for the garlic bread I'm going to need the equivalent of one bunch of Italian flat leaf parsley and I will need a half cup or so a big handful for the pasta main course and this is the parsley that you and I bought together at the farm store earlier and I need to mince this I will put a link for this pasta recipe in the description box below [Music] and since we are mincing things I might as well mince about a handful of the mint leaves this is the mint that we bought earlier I will need a good handful for the pasta dish may seem strange to add mint to to a pasta dish but trust me on this one it really works and for the pasta I will also need about 8 oz of center cut bacon we need to cut the bacon into small crosswise pieces or lardon if you have Panetta at home you could absolutely use Panetta instead of bacon my dog started scratching at the kitchen door as soon as she heard me mention bacon okay no sweetheart no sweetheart this is raw bacon you cannot have any is your dog like my dog let me know in the comments below now there are no exact proportions to any of the ingredients in this pasta dish so if you want more of one ingredient and less of another go right ahead and use whatever you feel comfortable using I think we should assemble the garlic bread first so I need to melt one cup or about 227 G of butter and we we will melt this on the stove top and our butter has melted now I'm going to add one of the garlic pucks from my own homegrown garlic you could use several squirts of garlic paste here or two or three minced cloves of garlic then we can turn off the heat and add the equivalent of one lch of minced parsley stir that in I will be adding some cheese directly to the bread and the cheese is salty so I'm going to add just a tiny amount of salt to this parsley and butter mixture now we can spoon this beautiful buttery parsley garlicky sauce right over the [Music] bread we want to make sure that all of the bread is covered in the butter sauce I'm just brushing this butter on over any EXP exposed portion of the bread we're not ready to bake the bread yet so going to set this aside and then we can get busy with the pasta dish I have one pound of pen rata here I'm going to cook this just to the alente stage that will take probably 9 Minutes of course I want to rather heavily salt the water and in the time it takes the pasta to cook we can make the parsley and pea mixture one tablespoon or thereabouts of olive oil and I have my Skillet over medium heat then we can add the bacon pieces and sauté them until they turn brown and crisp that will take anywhere from 3 to 5 minutes all right the bacon has turned brown and crisp now I'm going to add one cup or about 120 MLS of heavy cream I want to let this cream reduce and thicken while stirring from time to time we are very thick now after just 1 minute now I'm adding one teaspoon or thereabouts of Italian seasoning 1 and 1/2 cups of peas these are frozen peas but of course you could use fresh peas all of the fresh mint and the handful of minced parsley now the bacon is salty of course so all I need to add is a bit of black pepper and then off heat I'm going to stir in about 1 cup of grated Parmesan cheese and just like that our sauce is done and our pasta is done as well I will use this spider to transfer the pasta to the skillet and I goofed I was only supposed to use half of a pound of penet pasta so the remaining pasta will be turned into pasta salad we can add a bit of the pasta water just to thin out this sauce this is starting to look amazing and of course it will taste just [Music] amazing I'm keeping the pasta warm over here the oven has preheated to 350° F or 180° C and now we can put the garlic bread in the oven about 5 minutes and while the garlic bread is becoming crispy we can go light a fire in The Parlor [Music] [Music] after the garlic bread was in the oven for five minutes I then transferred it to under the Broiler for just one minute I like to cut the garlic bread into [Music] pieces I think that perhaps I could live on garlic bread for a Finishing Touch I'm giving the garlic bread a flurry of grated asiago cheese the cheese will give the bread another layer of flavor I'm going to Plate up the pasta and then I will meet you in the Parlor [Music] [Music] white wine such as Peno ggio would go very well with this pasta dish but Red Wine Works equally well this is a coat derone and I already added a little asiago cheese to my pasta but I want a little [Music] more some garlic bread and lazette has some garlic bread and let's tuck into this dish another Exquisite bite this pen with parsley peas bacon and mint has got to be one of the most Exquisite pasta dishes of all time I absolutely love it and let's check out the garlic bread the garlic bread with the Homegrown garlic and the parsley and the butter is just fantastic and I wanted to mention about the penny pasta the bacon gives it a wonderful Smoky flavor and the peas provide a green earthiness to the dish and the mint contributes a refreshing perfume and of course the cream just makes everything wonderful a freezing cold day a lot of snow outside a warm fire inside this dinner I'm a happy camper and I think you will be too if you try this dinner we do a lot of cooking gardening and home beautifications on this channel so if you have not subscribed as of yet I hope you will do so immediately and be sure to tap the Bell icon so that you can receive notifications every time I upload a new video and in the next video we will be doing some gardening of course we will also cook or bake something and until then please treat yourself exquisitly well and I will see you next time bye for now friends [Music]