pasta with sea urchins.

mommy discovered salt pickled sea urchins stashed away in our pantry.

so she whipped up some pasta with olive oil, garlic, a dash of red pepper,

and topped it off with grated Karasumi (dried mullet roe) and some parsley.

daddy was very satisfied.

bottarga.

aka "karasumi" in Japanese; east asian dried mullet roe.

Uncle Terry's souvenir from his recent trip to Taiwan.

apparently Taiwanese have it with sliced garlic.