The secret to making perfect pasta in 11 easy steps
This is what you'll need. A box of pasta, some olive oil, water, salt, pepper, and two kinds of cheese (a cup and a half of Parmesan and a cup of Romano, grated). The recipe serves two, more or less.
Start making the pasta. Add salt to water in a pot, then bring it to a boil, then add the pasta. Some people will tell you that adding salt makes the water boil faster. This is incorrect. Adding salt makes the pasta more delicious. Cook the pasta for the number of minutes directed on the box, minus one.
While your pasta is cooking, make the cheese paste. Combine the grated cheese, salt, and pepper with "just enough cold water to make a thick paste." Mash it together and spread it around the bowl.
When the pasta is done, either use tongs to pull it out of the water and put it into the cheese sauce, or drain it. Either way, make sure to save at least a cup of the pasta water.
Transfer the pasta to the bowl full of cheese. Add a bit of olive oil and some of the pasta water.
Stir vigorously. The hot pasta and water should start to melt the cheese into a creamy sauce.
Stir more.
Keep stirring. Add more pasta water as you go until the cheese is completely melted.
When you're done, the pasta should be coated in a thick, creamy sauce. If there are still chunks of cheese in it, that means you probably didn't stir fast enough. But this is okay because chunks of cheese are delicious.
Then you eat it! It should be so good that you want to taste it standing up in your kitchen.
If healthy eating is your thing, add a salad. You might have some grated cheese left over to add to it.
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