How to make mouthwatering, pumped-up pasta with just the things in your pantry
Step 1. Fill a pot with water. Place it on the stove. Turn the stove on.
Step 2: Add a generous pinch of salt to the water.
Step 3: Crush up some garlic. I chose two cloves for a one-person serving because I love garlic.
My philosophy of spice is: the more, the better. But you should add as much or as little as you'd like.
Once the water is boiling, open up your package of pasta. I chose a whole-wheat spaghetti.
I usually use around 1.5 times the recommended serving size. But you can adjust the amount of pasta you boil based on how big, hungry, and many you are.
Step 4: Put the pasta in the boiling water.
Once the pasta is softer, give it a stir. Just make sure nothing sticks to the pan or together. Lumpy pasta is grumpy pasta.
Boil it for about half the time recommended on the package.
Step 5: Reserve a half cup or so of pasta water.
Step 6: Drain your noodles. Again, make sure they don't stick together. Give 'em a toss or something.
Step 6: Put pan on stove. Turn heat up to medium. Cover the bottom of the pan with olive oil.
Step 7: Once the oil's hot, add your garlic.
Step 8: Grind a healthy dose of pepper onto your sizzling garlic. Now, double it.
Step 9: Add your drained pasta to the pan.
Step 10: You do the hokey-pokey and you shake it all about.
Step 10: Add your reserved pasta water and your sauce of choice. Anyone who knows me knows I'm a huge Wegmaniac, so I chose Wegmans' "Grandpa's Sauce."
Just a lil' dollop will go a long way. Let your noodles bathe until they've absorbed most of the liquid. Again, don't let them stick together!
Step 11: Pasta, meet plate. Plate, meet palate.
Et, voilà! Pull our your fork and your fancy napkin and prepare for a plate of carby goodness that'll almost make you forget that the apocalypse is happening just outside your kitchen.
Note: You can modify this recipe at any stage by adding a vegetable or protein you like when sautéing the garlic. Or, you can top it with a sprinkle of a parmesan-like hard cheese.
Popular Right Now
Advertisement