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Simple Spaghetti with capers and olives

12 oz dried spaghetti

1/3 cup virgin olive oil

2 garlic cloves, finely chopped

2 TBSP capers, drained and rinsed

12 kalamata olives, pitted and chopped

freshly squeezed juice of 1/2 unwaxed lemon

1/2 cup chopped flat leaf parsley

sea salt and freshly ground pepper

shavings of fresh Parmesan cheese

     Bring a large saucepan of water to a boil.  Add a good pinch of salt, then the pasta and cook al dente, according to the time on the package.  When the spaghetti is done, gently heat the oil in a small saucepan. Add the garlic and cook one minutes.  Add the capers, olives, and lemon juice and cook for 30 seconds. Drain the pasta and add to the caper mixture in the warm saucepan.  Add the parsley and toss well to coat.  Add salt and pepper to taste.  Garnish with shavings of Parmesan cheese, if using.   My caper and olive-loving children adore this one!

      "The responsible consumer must also be in some way a producer.  Out of his own resources and skills, he must be equal to some of his own needs.  The household that prepares its own meals in its kitchen with some intelligent regard for nutritional value, and thus depends on the grocer only for selected raw materials, exercises an influence on the food industry that reaches from the store all the way back to the seedsman.  The household that produces some or all of its own food will have a proportionately greater influence. " 

-Wendell Berry