Some remarks for your readers: Many jars of roasted red peppers are 12 oz.; we think the dish works just fine with the extra peppers. Also, if you happen to be married to someone who doesn’t like anchovies or red peppers, you can fry up some anchovies and pepper flakes in a separate pan and add plenty of the resulting paste (whose technical name is “zinger”) to individual helpings. Smelly goodness!

The other day we made an extremely purple pad thai; we experimented with adding a bunch of chopped red cabbage at the sauteeing stage to act as a crunchy substitute for the bean sprouts. Very tasty, but the cabbage released lots of purple water which stained the noodles and everything else, most interestingly the egg, which turned blue. I thought it was something Miranda would like…!