I was re-arranging my pantry recently and found a package of Sardinian fregola that I had purchased at Altomonte’s Italian market (https://altomontes.com/) a few years back. I had visited Sardinia back in 2008 and returned home with a few treasured recipes that have become family favorites. My mouth instantly watered (ho l’acquolina in bocca! – love that phrase in Italian) thinking about the dish that I typically make with this Sardinian speciality and it was game on for dinner.

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Every year I plant fava beans in my garden and I ask myself, “why?!” The plants take a lot of room in the garden (though they shoot up really quickly, which is fun), the yield is small, and the effort of shelling the beans from the pods, then boiling the beans, then shelling the outer husk of each bean, is incredibly labor-intensive. There’s also this: when I post a picture of my modest fava bean bounty on Facebook, all I get are “Silence of the Lamb” jokes.

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