I told you yesterday about the pasta dish I enjoyed at foreigncinema in San Francisco. I recreated the recipe at home, making a few substitutions, an addition of cherry tomatoes, and…

… believe it or not, the omission of cheese. Gasp! It really just didn’t need it. Feel free to add it back in if you’d like.

This was the menu description:

Orecchiette pasta: Brussels sprouts, fava leaf, delicata, wild mushrooms, Reggiano, garlic, chili flakes.

This is fava leaf. Unless you grow your own fava beans, fava leaf is going to be pretty darn hard to come by. Since spinach is very similar in taste, I used spinach.

Delicata is a winter squash, even so, it belongs to the same species as all types of summer squash including pattypan squash, zucchini, and yellow crookneck squash. Although delicata squash is common in markets this time of year, I didn’t see any the day I shopped, so I used yellow crookneck instead.

All that being said … here is my recipe…

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