Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #69: Roast Horsetail

 Roast Horsetail is made from HORSETAIL

This isnt river cottage so i cant forage some actual horsetail plants but I reckon asparagus would be even better.

Washing it first and then we'll trim the ends

I don't cook asparagus that much so i looked it up and people reccomend to blanche it a bit first, so ive popped them in hot water for a bit.

then we dried and tumbled them around in olive oil and some orange pepper seasoning, then they're going in the grill for about 10mins

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Damn hide your horses, ive got a taste for these.

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #68: Love Noodle Dish

 Love Noodle Dish is made from LOVELY CHOCOLATE and FRESH PASTA BUNCH

I think we have already done enough chocolate with pasta, so instead i'm going to focus on the gimmick of having a heart shaped bowl I nicked from my mum, and since it says "noodles" in the title use it as an excuse to do some cheeky instant noodles instead. I'm going to lean in to this pad thai flavoured one and add some spring onion, red chilli and a sprinkle of crushed up roasted peanuts at the end. And maybe a LOVELY CHOCOLATE on the side.

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Now this is how you make a romantic lunch! I'm pleased with my own presentation as well as the flavour of the noodles. And the chocolates a lovely treat at the end! Thanks mum for letting me borrow your heart dish <3

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #67: Choco Pasta Dish

 Choco Pasta Dish is made from MILD COCOA BEAN and FRESH PASTA BUNCH

Looks like its time to get weird again. We've got pasta, we've got chocolate. No need to overcomplicate this, I'll just make spaghetti and melt some chocolate and butter in it??

I'm just going to do a small batch/single portion because I only want to regret this once.

Once its drained (and reasonably dry so we dont seize the melted chocolate?) just gonna add this in on the hob and melt it in

You know what, this doesnt seem so bad. Its just gonna taste like buttery chocolate carbs its gonna be nice probably.

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Yknow what I was dreading this one for no good reason, this is nice. Tastes like pain au chocolat. Kinda heavy for a dessert though.

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #66: Koopasta Dish

 Made with FRESH PASTA BUNCH and TURTLEY LEAF. This one's a no-brainer to me. Green pasta with green pesto!

Since we were sourcing some quite posh pastas I thought i'd get a nice spinach tagliatelle. It's so convenient to just buy the ingredients so this is gonna be a real easy one.

boil pasta

stir in the pesto... and you're done! I'll garnish it with a basil leaf from my somewhat diminished herb planter but its kind of pathetically small compared to a commercial leaf.

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Voila! I love how easy it is to mix in pesto. But it could use some meat, cheese or vegetables couldn't it.

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #65: Ink Pasta Dish

 Made with FRESH PASTA BUNCH and INKY SAUCE

I tried ocado for the first time just to source me some proper squid ink spaghetti for this! Fortunately the dish seems to require nothing else, but thats no fun so im going to make a nice seafoody dish with garlic, oil, white wine and sauteed scallops!

Boiled up the pasta and its looking good!

Frying up the scallops and plenty of chopped garlic in oil while the pasta drains. Add a dash of white wine. Then we combine with the cooked pasta, season with salt and pepper, and toss it around a bit in the spaghet.

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Solid flavour, I love garlic and seafood. Should have used a bit more wine and some proper olive oil as it was a little plainer than it could have been.

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #64: Spicy Pasta Dish

 Spicy Pasta Dish is made with FRESH PASTA BUNCH and HOT SAUCE

I don't have fresh pasta I have dried pasta, but its red like the horribly recoloured sprite and I have all the hot sauces I could scrounge from my cupboards (specifically some tomato and roasted pepper sauce to use as a base, some hot & sweet ketchup, some chopped chillies and some jalapeno sauce.) And some leftover tomatoes.

Gonna chop most of these up but leave some for... decoration...

OMG this cheapass pasta! This lascamgne! tagliartelle! con-chigle! all the red colouring leeched straight out during cooking!

We will fry these tomates and chillis and get the red back in with the sauce.

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Its hot! its spicy! its nicey!

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #63: Meat Pasta Dish

 Meat pasta dish is made with FRESH PASTA BUNCH and POWER STEAK

Since we've already done a classic ragu, I thought it might be fun to lean into the steak side of this and do an unusual pasta flavour that leans into the beef steak theme.

mustnt forget da spaget

Chopped up the steak and cooking it in plenty of butter, and then im gonna try and kinda do like some sort of... peppercorn sauce/gravy type thing so that it really feels like a meaty meat sauce.

Dumping in just like an unreasonable amount of pepper. Pepper it up. Italians look away now because this is about to get all weird and possibly quite british.

Damn should I have cooked onions with this? is it a bit late to add onions now? it kind of is.. but what if we do a weird compromise and add some fried onion seasoning I have in my cupboard what could go wrong. and some red wine of course! We've gone rogue.

We gotta have some peas like in the graphic, and then some gravy granules and hot water stirred into the whole thing to really sauce it up.

We really winged it with this one but this is actually looking perfect? This is looking (and smelling) like the meaty meat sauce I envisioned for this dish.

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Damn this is really nice. The peppery gravy is super flavourful. Pasta and gravy is a weird sell and im not sure its a timeless classic combination? But it has novelty factor and it fit the brief even better than I had hoped and I would definitely cook this again as a quick and dirty meal. Feels terribly British though.