National Crème de Menthe & Linguine Day

Good Morning Foodies!! Today we have two items on the national food day, Crème de Menthe and Linguine. Crème de Menthe is a sweet mint-flavored alcoholic beverage. It comes in two colors, white (colorless) and green (obtaining the color from the mint leaves or from adding color to it). Crème de Menthe is normally used in several cocktails. The cocktail of choice today is the Dirty Girl Scout Cookie.

Crème de Menthe

Dirty Girl Scout Cookie

Ingredients

• 1 ounce vodka
• 1 ounce coffee liqueur
• 1 ounce Irish cream liqueur
• 1/4 ounce green Crème de Menthe

Directions

Combine ingredients in a shaker half filled with ice. 

Shake well.

Strain into an old-fashioned glass with ice.

Dirty Girl Scout Cookie

Linguine or Linguini is a pasta that is flat like fettuccine and trenette. This pasta originated in Genoa and the Liguria region of Italy. The name of linguine means "little tongues" in Italian. Other alternative names for this pasta are Trennet or Bavette. While people fixed the traditional pasta spaghetti accompanied with meat and tomatoes, but linguine is often served with seafood or pesto.

Linguine

Pesto with Linguini

Ingredients

• 2 cups fresh basil leaves
• 1/2 cup grated Parmesan or Romano
• 1/2 cup grated Pecorino
• 1/2 cup pine nuts, toasted
• 4 garlic cloves, chopped
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1 pound linguini pasta

Directions

Using a pestle and mortar, combine the basil, cheeses, pine nuts, garlic, and salt and grind until a paste is formed. Add the olive oil slowly and mix with the mashed basil mixture until well combined.

Prepare pasta in boiling water and drain. Using a hot skillet, place pasta in skillet and add the pesto to the warm pasta. Stir the pesto into the pasta and serve.

Pesto with Linguini