{"id":21000,"date":"2014-03-12T06:27:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T11:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=21000"},"modified":"2014-03-12T06:53:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T11:53:06","slug":"penne-dreadful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=21000","title":{"rendered":"Penne Dreadful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/pennedreadful-e1394538476131-150x126.jpg\" alt=\"Pasta Ingredients\" width=\"150\" height=\"126\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>I was being a smartass on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ShadowManor\">Facebook<\/a> a couple of weeks ago, and commented, &#8220;There needs to be a goth pasta dish called Penne Dreadful.&#8221;  I chortled quietly to myself and thought that would be the end of it, but I forgot who my friends are: A dozen people immediately started suggesting ways to make this happen.<\/p>\n<p>Tanya suggested squid-ink pasta (an excellent choice), and said that a cream sauce made with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca\/potd\/2006\/02\/brassica_oleracea_botrytis_group_purple_cape.php\">purple cauliflower<\/a> would make a lovely contrast.  xJane noted that with food dye, all things are possible.  Then JaniceMars showed up and waxed rhapsodic about the dark puttanesca sauce one could make with purple tomatoes, red onions, and black olives.<\/p>\n<p>And then she went one better and actually made the damn thing.<\/p>\n<p>Her wonderful, appropriately violent recipe can be found on her site, <a href=\"http:\/\/prodigalsock.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/penne-dreadful.html\">Prodigal Sock<\/a>.  She uses green (spinach) penne, which is nicely creepy and readily available, but if you want to go all the way and use black penne, you can find it <a href=\"http:\/\/salumeriaitaliana.com\/catalog\/pasta\/pasta-by-brands\/setaro\/penne-nero-di-seppia-squid-ink\">here<\/a> (they have black spaghetti too).<\/p>\n<p>A fun garnish would be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcgoodfood.com\/recipes\/12856\/eyeball-pasta\">these<\/a> &#8220;eyeballs&#8221; made from cherry tomatoes and mini-mozzarella balls.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, JaniceMars!  You&#8217;re awesome.<\/p>\n<p>(Bonus link: Whilst I was looking for squid-ink pasta sources, I ran across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Italian-Bowties-Farfalle-Bianca-Natural\/dp\/B003LSI14A\/ref=sr_1_1?s=grocery&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1392488579&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;sr=1-1\" rel=\"nofollow\">these<\/a> gorgeous zebra-striped bow ties.  There&#8217;s apparently an even-Halloweenier <a href=\"http:\/\/bsinthekitchen.com\/Pumpkin-Pasta\/\">black and orange<\/a> version, but I can&#8217;t seem to find an online source for that.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was being a smartass on Facebook a couple of weeks ago, and commented, &#8220;There needs to be a goth pasta dish called Penne Dreadful.&#8221; I chortled quietly to myself and thought that would be the end of it, but I forgot who my friends are: A dozen people immediately started suggesting ways to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21000"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21294,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21000\/revisions\/21294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}