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Baked Pasta with Broccoli Rabe and Sausage

Guys, I am in the weeds this month. After a summer of lazy, a summer of two and a husband (eh, unpaid assistant) always around, making life fun and easy, a mess of busy (new job, work travel for him, book touring for me, a spate of solo parenting of each of us, new preschool, new babysitter, and very important birthday party ) has descended on our recently idyllic lifestyle and, no, I am not handling it with the effortless grace you’ve come to expect from me. Quit laughing. Stop it. I could be effortless or graceful! I mean, there was that one time… Okay, fine. I’m handling it as predicted: with equal measures of bourbon and complaining on the internet. I never claimed to be a model human.

By smittenkitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Pasta and broccoli match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 286 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

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Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By smittenkitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Pasta + broccolitop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together286 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Milk + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Pasta + flourtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together610 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Romano cheese + buttertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  5. Pork + milktop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,383 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs