What we ate: Pasta, tacos and, of course, the Ramen Burger

It was a food week punctuated by the cult of the Ramen Burger, another hybrid food that started in New York and will no doubt be replicated here soon enough. But the curious were able to get the real thing Saturday and Sunday when creator Keizo Shimamoto brought it to L.A. so his mom could taste it. Betty Hallock and Jenn Harris show you video of it.

Up until then, the Food staff’s appetites tended toward traditional (and the nearby) comforts.

Critic S. Irene Virbila made a beautiful and utterly simple -- it was really, really hot outside -- pasta dish. Cacia e pepe, spaghetti with lots of cracked black pepper and grated pecorino Romano, is great for a late-night supper or a quick lunch.

Writer Rene Lynch had a beautiful salad from Pitfire Pizza and Food editor Russ Parsons discovered a terrific Mexican restaurant in his Long Beach hood. The carne asada with nopalitos, chiles and tomatoes on handmade tortillas at Los Compadres was a bittersweet find -- how do you make up for lost time?

See that lowly, but beautiful, fig? His fig tree isn’t producing like it has. The Parsons, it seems, are left to eat them one at a time. Is harmony in the home in jeopardy?

Finally, I stumbled across Paula Wolfert’s Dax madeleines recipe. It ran on the Daily Dish blog in 2007 and was from her book “The Cooking of South-West France,” published in 2005. Please don’t look too closely at the edges.

We’d love to see what you ate. Please show us. #latimesfood on Instagram.

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