I made a charred tomato sauce years ago when I first started cooking and styling photos for my blog. I wanted to revisit the grill with fresh perspective to make Grilled Tomato & Pepperoni Tagliatelle. Somehow it doesn’t seem fair that there aren’t enough grilled tomato recipes on the web! It’s kind of an awkward, fun way to use your produce especially if they aren’t in season. That Char can be great against the earthy fruit. But, then walks in pepperoni; the rusty salumi king with a spicy bite. I had pepperoni fried rice at Don Angie and it sparked this idea to put it in tomato sauce…nonetheless a grilled one. I love guanciale and pancetta but I wanted to try something different to me. And, because it’s spicy a little cream and butter (just a little) helps reel in that spice.

Homemade Tagliatelle

I also need to address the homemade tagliatelle that I made for this. It was a recipe I used from my Italia culinary school days. I typically use my kitchenaid pasta sheeter attachment for this but I wanted to do all by hand. It came out a wee bit thick but I love texture so I wasn’t bothered! You don’t have to make homemade pasta you certianly can buy it dry or fresh wherever you shop.

Polychrome sweatshirt

I partnered with Polychrome Goods to bring this recipe to life. I’m wearing their “al dente” pasta sweatshirt which makes so much sense for me! The only way to eat pasta is al dente and even a little bit more so. Pasta should be so good you want to eat it straight from the salty boiling water. If you love this sweatshirt for you or anyone else you can purchase here (I make profit off your purchase).