Comfort Yourself with This Homemade Ricotta Cavatelli Recipe

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Comfort Yourself with This Homemade Ricotta Cavatelli Recipe

Give yourself an emotional hug with this comforting ricotta cavatelli with slow-roasted pork, broccoli rabe, and pine nuts.
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Election Night is over, and now you've officially survived Wednesday. It's time to treat yourself with your best friend: comfort food. Carbohydrates, we've missed you so.

And if you're going to do comfort food, you should do it damn well. The errant box of near-instant macaroni and cheese should only slip into your dietary vocabulary at times of desperation. Not because it's unhealthy, but because if you're going to embrace the feeling of being stuffed, you should do it with a little more style and creativity. It's Hump Day, and your weekly allotment is brainpower still has a generous reserve. This week, you can prepare homemade ricotta cavatelli.

RECIPE: Ricotta Cavatelli with Slow-Roasted Pork, Broccoli Rabe, and Pine Nuts

This recipe comes from Birch & Barley in Washington, DC. Here's the thing: slow-roasted meat is an incredible reward that requires a bit of patience. So slow-roast that fabulously fatty hunk of pork butt for five or six hours, and when it's in its final stages, make the cavatelli. It's four ingredients that you kind of just mix together and let sit. You can handle this.

Finally, you sauté some shallots, garlic, and broccoli rabe. You add chicken stock, parsley, pine nuts, Parmesan, and that wonderfully savory roast pork. Cook up the cavatelli, mix it all together, and you're done.

And when you're settling in to sweater weather, you'll feel a whole lot better knowing that you can be a creature of truly decadent comfort.