I would like someone to help me on making spaghetti, its my favorite meal. [IMG]http://www.nicholson-insurance.com/s/hea1VnWgwkORoKCpARVpZg/spaghetti.jpg[/IMG]
You need to be more specific.
Do you mean making spaghetti pasta from scratch, from a box, etc?
dude, its so fucking easy even terry schiavo can do it
1. boil water in a pot (tip: put some oil in water so noodles dont stick together)
2. put noodles in pot (wait until they get soft, try one to see if they are done)
3. while noodles are cooking, put ground beef on the stove and cook it until its done (i hope you will know when its done, dispose of the fat/grease)
4. pour pasta sauce on top of ground beef (lower heat to keep warm for a few minutes)
when noodles are done, separate water from the noodles via a colander
if you dont have one, do the best you can to get all the water out
make up your plates once its done
enjoy
(also if you dont like beef in your pasta sauce, then dont do step 3)
While it is very simple to prepare pasta, your steps leave things to be desired in the flavor area.
[QUOTE=The Maestro;38948766]While it is very simple to prepare pasta, your steps leave things to be desired in the flavor area.[/QUOTE]
Feel free to add your flavornotes to the steps.
I enjoy cooking, but am not a professional by any means. Im simply a college kid who doesn't have much to work with all the time. I decided to just put the basics, and hopefully the OP could expand on these steps himself.
Always add salt (a reasonable amount) to the water that is boiling the pasta so the pasta isn't completly bland and over relying on the sauce.
Never dispose of meat fat and grease it contains a lot of flavour for the sauce.
Stuff to add to sauce: Garlic, Basil, Cream, Shredded Carrots, Celery, Onions, Chilli,Eggplant, Capsicum etc. (remember to chop or grate the ingredients finely so it 'dissolves' into the sauce.
A few of those ingredients clash with each other. So don't put em all in together.
The most important part IMO is to salt the water well, very well. Nothing is worse than bland noodles. Don't be stingy when salting the water, I hate watching people cook pasta and add 1 teaspoon of salt to a gallon of water, it should be as salty as sea water.
The pasta is 50% of the meal, give it the attention it deserves
Here's an important note: Don't cook the pasta to fullness in the pot, rather cook to just near done and then cook it the rest of the way in a skillet with the sauce. This is the way it's done in many restaurants.
Pasta continues to cook when you take it out of the water, so always cook it a minute or two less and throw it into the pan or let it rest. Always read the back of the pasta packet to check cooking times but remember they're only guidelines and not to be dictated with.
Pasta is very absorbent so lots of people put their pasta in with the sauce to allow it to take in flavour, or they put butter/olive oil or both when taking the pasta out of the water. Another thing I do is I sometimes cook my pasta in stock which is one of my favorite ways to eat pasta on its own.
Another tip: when you put your pasta in your sauce add a bit of the cooking stock you've got from your pasta water, this is full of pasta flavour and starch and makes a good sauce.
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To make meatballs and pasta is quite simple, you need a good tomato sauce base (just buy jarred if you feel like it).
1. Make some meatballs (or buy them, again if you don't feel like it), get some ground beef or a mixture of beef and pork and mix the two together with bread crumbs, finely chopped parsley, minced garlic, salt, pepper (or add whatever seasonings and flavours you like to them).
2. Put some oil in the pan, make sure its hot and dump your meatballs in and cook them until they have a good colour and crust on them, take them out and add your sauce into the pan (note you should not cook the meatballs fully in the pan).
3. When your sauce is hot enough add your meatballs back in and cook them for 10-15 minutes or so, around this time you should be cooking your pasta in boiling salted water so you need to time your meatball cooking times to how long your pasta needs to cook.
4. Take the pasta out, drain it in a sieve (but keep some stock left over) and put it into to finish off cooking and absorb flavour. Add a ladle of stock into the sauce to give it some more body as your sauce would of probably decreased a little in cooking, just make sure to not make the sauce watery by adding too much stock - add as much or as little stock you want depending on the sauce thickness you like. If you find your tomato sauce is a little too bitter, add a table spoon of sugar or honey into the mix to balance it out.
5. To finish off add chopped parsley and basil and throw it into the pan, serve with cheese and bread to mop up any remaining sauce left in the dish.
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Alternatively watch recipes on youtube if you're new to cooking.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-DFoKuwjAw[/media]
Palms are sweaty
Knees weak, arms are heavy
Vomit on my sweater already
Mom’s spaghetti
I love putting bacon in my spaghetti
[QUOTE=Egg_Toaster;39941553]I love putting bacon in my spaghetti[/QUOTE]
I need to do this.
#swaghetti yolonese
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