Woland

Excuse the rough plating.. It was absolutely delicious Recipe for two people: 200 gr pasta (short shapes are better) 150 gr ricotta fresh 2 medium courgettes Handful of walnut kernels 1 medium onion 1 clove of garlic Olive oil, salt, pepper, nutmeg Splash of milk (optional)

Sautée chopped onions and garlic in a couple of teaspoons of olive oil in a large deep pan until they are golden brown, add the cubed courgettes, pinch of salt, pepper and nutmeg and let cook on medium high heat for about 20 mins, until soft and possibly a bit caramelised. Cook the pasta in salted water until al dente (don't overcook). Chop the walnuts roughly. In a bowl or a blender put the ricotta, two thirds of the cooked courgettes and a splash of milk or pasta cooking water and mix. I used a hand held blender and it works very well, easier to clean. Put the mix back in the pan with the rest of the courgettes and stir and add the chopped walnuts. Once the pasta is cooked, drain it and add it to the pan and stir it in the creamy sauce for a couple of minutes on low heat. Serve hot with grated parmesan. Apparently this is also good cold for a summer pasta salad version, bit I have never tried it.

Why YSK: "Our bodies have a kind of emergency temperature relief valve. That valve is a special type of blood vessel: they’re called arteriovenous anastomoses. Most arteries and veins connect through a bed of very thin capillaries that bring nutrients and oxygen to cells. AVAs, though, are different. They are direct junctions of arteries and veins, so blood flows through them pretty quickly. And the real key to their heat relief function is they are concentrated in just a few places in the body. We found that in the palm of the hand, the soles of the feet, and the upper part of the face, which are called non hairy skin, there are special blood vessels, and those blood vessels can shunt the blood from the arteries to the veins directly, bypassing the capillaries."

On the wet towel on neck trick: "The reason is the brain has a thermostat that it uses to trigger the body’s natural cooling mechanisms, like sweating or passing blood through those AVAs. That brain region is located near the back of the neck. It uses neck skin temperature, and blood temps in major vessels there, to measure how hot you are. So your cold towel is going to fool the brain’s thermostat into thinking that your body has cooled down. It’s going to shut down all your other natural cooling methods. And you’ll stay uncomfortably and sometimes dangerously hot."

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