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It worked! It worked! MWAhahahahahaaaaaa!
Jul. 20th, 2013 07:10 pmMartha Stewart just changed my life, and I don't care if you laugh at me.
Martha Stewart magazine had a new kind of pasta recipe - you don't do the pasta and the sauce separately and drain one and add the other - you put EVERYTHING into one big skillet: pasta, 3x water as pasta, and all the fixings, and then hard boil it down, constantly stirring, until the water's gone and the pasta's thickly sauced. If you use dry linguini, it's supposed to end up al dente. (I prefer my pasta giving up the ghost and used fresh.)
It WORKED! Not only does this mean that I did the catfish salad bar pasta tonight with two pans instead of half a dozen things (pot, pan, strainer, aluminum bowl for sauce, etc.) AND that I did it without the thing boiling over.
It means that as I was standing over the boiling pot, I could think of So! Many! Ways! of mixing it up. A little lemon, a little oil, a couple crushed cloves of garlic, some mushrooms, a fistful of frozen peas, splash of white wine... Or tomatoes, garlic, onion, maybe a little roasted corn to give it some crunch...
I don't know if this would work with whole grain pasta because that gets nasty if you overcook it by a single second. But I just signed up to eat a crapload of pasta.
... once the weather breaks. Standing over a skillet of billowing steam in this heat was not nice.
Martha Stewart magazine had a new kind of pasta recipe - you don't do the pasta and the sauce separately and drain one and add the other - you put EVERYTHING into one big skillet: pasta, 3x water as pasta, and all the fixings, and then hard boil it down, constantly stirring, until the water's gone and the pasta's thickly sauced. If you use dry linguini, it's supposed to end up al dente. (I prefer my pasta giving up the ghost and used fresh.)
It WORKED! Not only does this mean that I did the catfish salad bar pasta tonight with two pans instead of half a dozen things (pot, pan, strainer, aluminum bowl for sauce, etc.) AND that I did it without the thing boiling over.
It means that as I was standing over the boiling pot, I could think of So! Many! Ways! of mixing it up. A little lemon, a little oil, a couple crushed cloves of garlic, some mushrooms, a fistful of frozen peas, splash of white wine... Or tomatoes, garlic, onion, maybe a little roasted corn to give it some crunch...
I don't know if this would work with whole grain pasta because that gets nasty if you overcook it by a single second. But I just signed up to eat a crapload of pasta.
... once the weather breaks. Standing over a skillet of billowing steam in this heat was not nice.
