Vilda Gonzalez is a chef, recipe developer, and creative. Her work takes many forms, from cooking private dinners, to feeding big groups on retreat, developing recipes for brands, teaching cooking classes, and advocating for more sustainable local food systems, but the through line is constant: she believes that food should be delicious, flavorful, and indulgent, while also being deeply nourishing, sourced with integrity, and inherently healthful. Her mission is to rewire our collective relationship to what eating well truly means, through the lens of seasonality, sensuality, and intuitive home cooking.
Tender, nutty, olive oil laden Lupini beans are married with al dente spaghetti and bruised rosemary for a craveable riff on the classic pasta e fagioli, a cozy dish of pasta and beans. We soak our Lupini beans overnight, before sending them off for a long, lazy trip to a warm oven. Lots of lemon zest, bay leaves, rosemary, and a whole head of garlic infuse the broth with brightness and rich flavor. The beans, alongside the soft cloves of garlic from the pot and a generous ladle of their broth, serve as a rustic sauce for coating the spaghetti. Impressively plant based, this pasta has all the lusciousness and depth that butter and cheese usually provide - all thanks to the Lupini beans and their zesty liquor.
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I did not follow directions completely as I missed 1 going back and forth to stove. Prep of these makes beans you can enjoy cold as snack or whatever. The Pasta e Lupini finish was outstanding. You will eat too much of your pasta because of the crunch and taste of the beans embellished by the addition of garlic and the herb. I did not know what bean broth was until I realized it was the cooking liquid left which doesn’t look like a lot until you separate beans and broth.