Salted Dried Fish

This is a seafood recipe with no visible seafood. It is my version of a Sardinian pasta with bottarga, a cured fish roe grated or sprinkled over many of their pasta dishes. It is salty, briny and yes, fishy -- but not in a bad way. Traditionally bottarga is dried mullet or tuna roe, but I use shad roe here. Bottarga can be bought over the internet, or if you are adventurous, made at home. For the...