I live in a huge apartment with my husband, two kids, and two dogs. The kids are almost always home and are well behaved. This summer I have a lot of free time, so I’ve had a lot of free time to cook. I’ve been cooking with what I think is the absolute best ingredients. I’ve experimented with various pasta sauces, but I’m always surprised and really, really happy to find a dish I enjoy.
As an example, Ive experimented with a garlic sauce in my oven when I have a bit of leftover pizza on Thanksgiving, and Ive also experimented with a white wine sauce in my oven when I have leftover pizza on Thanksgiving, and Ive also experimented with a few other sauces.
Ive found that the main ingredient for a garlic sauce is the garlic (Ive got a large garlic and onion base in my oven). Ive used a little butter and olive oil, lots of it, and a little bit of flour and salt to make it work better, but that’s the first step in the garlic sauce. You simply add the garlic and onion base to the pan and gently stir it together for roughly 1/4 cup.
In my kitchen I have an oak pan that I use for roasting a lot of things. Thats all I use it for, but I never burn it. It has a great roasting temperature of 500 degrees (or so I hear). With about half the amount of flour and salt I would normally need in an oven, I can use the oven to cook pasta and stuff and it comes out fine.
So I have a bit of a problem with cooking pasta like this. Not sure if anyone else has this problem, but the pasta always seems to stick a bit to the pan and I’ve had to start over a couple times. Just a suggestion if you can help it. I do not recommend using this method for cooking pasta in any other way.
In general, it’s best to cook pasta in water because the starch will stick to the pan and you will be able to get out of the fire. Even then though, you might want to use a little olive oil or butter to help thicken the sauce and not go overboard with the sauce. For more info on making your own pasta, see here.
If you go the aqueous route, you can use any pasta that won’t be cooked until you are done (like alfredo). I can’t speak for the brand, but I don’t think there is a brand of pasta out there that will not be cooked until you are done. As for how much to give the pasta, I like to think about it as about 30% of the filling, so I find that I give about 60%.
I gave the pasta about half of the filling. I find that the dough is not really cooked through, so it works well with the sauce that I make from scratch.
The pasta was very good and I can’t recommend it enough. As I said before, I really liked the sauce that I made.
The pasta is actually a staple of the Italian diet, so if you don’t like it, you probably shouldn’t be eating it. The sauce you serve it with, however, is so good that I’m sure you will be tempted to continue eating it until you get a craving and need to dig into the sauce.
