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I will cook tonight. It will be a pasta in mushroom and olive sauce. The pasta is innocent. It will only barely deserve the quick soak in salty butter and boiling water that it will receive. I shall grind black peppercorns into olive oil, heating it slightly to extract the flavour. I will slice little red chillies to give a sweet and fiery body to the sauce. I will soak black olives till they lose their salt and I can chop them up. I have thin-sliced mushrooms in spiced oil. I will stir them in last. The whole dish will be washed down with a simple little Cabernet Sauvignon which I picked up for fun. And it will all take fifteen minutes to prepare and about the same time to eat. Thus will I gain back what the world takes out. Thus will the balance be maintained.
etched with acid at 10:35:00 pm
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Is this boiling the uncooked pasta and the respective sauces and seasonings in the same pot? I always thought the pasta and its other components were cooked separately.
Start with hot water into which some basil and black peppercorns and salt have been stirred (according to taste). You cook the pasta separately, about maybe 6-8 minutes starting from the time the water boils. Test for springiness by attempting to cut the pasta as it cooks using a pair of chopsticks. If it cuts too easily, that's overcooked...
Drain the pasta. Mix in a bit of salty butter or olive oil so it doesn't dry out and get sticky.
While you were boiling the water/cooking the pasta, you would also have been doing the sauce. That's now done and hot, so you can ladle it out over the pasta.
what a beautiful meal to share with your wife =)
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