Carpe Diem Haiku – Hamaguri (cherry stone clam)

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Carpe Diem prompt today is Hamaguri (cherry stone clam). I googled a little, and saw it was similar to vongele, the delicious little clam from the Mediterranean. I will share my recipe for vongele I did tonight in honor of this prompt. Luckily our local store had fresh vongele.

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I started to do my own pasta, using 225g wheat flour, 2 eggs a dash of olive oil, and a little salt. I kneaded the dough carefully and enjoyed some relaxing lounge music. Making the pasta in the pasta-machine the usual way, and while waiting for the pasta water to boil, we opened a bottle of Champagne.


vongele can wait
sharing cold Champagne
Friday after-work


I heated olive oil, threw in a 3 cloves garlic, and when the smell started to fill the kitchen I added the clams to the olive oil, and the pasta to the boiling water. Pasta was ready, and I took our favorite bowl and put the drained pasta in the bottom, I added a dash of sherry and some chopped parsley to the vongele, stirred and poured it over the pasta.


subtle garlic taste
we share pasta vongele
early days of spring


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March 8, 2013

15 responses to “Carpe Diem Haiku – Hamaguri (cherry stone clam)”

  1. What a delicious sounding meal! I have not had clams in far too long; we used to get littlenecks where I lived and would eat them on the half-shell with horseradish sauce. Ah, the good old, carefree days… Thank you for sharing!

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