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The PASTA Thread

I love fresh made pasta. There was a semi-local restaurant that had wonderful homemade bow-tie pasta. It was one of my favorite restaurants but unfortunately it closed recently due to the owner of the building jacking up the rent on the restaurant.

I need a good recipe for homemade pasta. :)

quite easy, one egg per 100 grams of semolina flour. mix by hand, knead, let rest. run it through a pasta roller.
heaven.
 
one of my favorite, easy is nice fra diavola tomato sauce

8 large tomatoes (concasse)
1 large yellow onion diced
1 head garlic
several large pinches crushed red pepper
4 tblspoons tomato paste
1/2 bottle of good red wine (your choice of grape, no merlot)
olive oil
salt
cracked black pepper
 
Oh, I see. you're right. It's Pasta. In Hell.


The intention with the thread (see post 1) was however to post pasta recipes etc, not stupid pics of spaghetti monsters.

Eek. Sorry. Here's my recipe:

1 cup magic flying dust
3 metric tons of spagetti
1 monster
80000 gallons of water

Bring water to a boil (you may have to burn a few peasants in order to get the fire hot enough). Dump spagetti, magic flying dust, and monster into boiling water. Stir for about 30 minutes. Drain, and then SERVE YOUR MASTER, THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER!

Parmesan cheese optional.
 
I'd tell you what's in it, but you wouldn't believe it:

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The only pasta I like is Spaghetti Aglio e Olio

1 lb. dried long pasta
1/2 cup olive oil
4 medium garlic cloves
Paprika
1 tsp. salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1 or 2 Tblsp. minced fresh herbs such as parsley, fresh oregano or a mixture (optional)
Freshly grated Parmesan (pass separately)

Bring a large pot of salted water to the boil. Cook the pasta al dente and drain, saving about 1/2 cup of the pasta water. While the pasta is cooking, gently warm the olive oil in a large sauté pan, add the garlic either slivered or minced and heat just until the garlic turns golden. If you are using the red pepper flakes, add them here. Remove garlic or not according to your taste. Set oil aside until pasta is drained. Place oil back on medium low flame and toss pasta, in the sauté pan, with salt until well coated. If the pasta seems dry add dribbles of the pasta water. Add herbs and just heat through. Serve immediately with a good grind of black pepper, and pass the grated cheese at table. I also like to have a cruet of olive oil on the table so diners may add a drizzle if they wish.
 
Another pasta recipe:

Olive oil + garlic + chili --> Frying pan
Add prawns
Remove from stove
Add ½ dl water, lemon juice and some coriander leaves
Add 2 egg yolks
Stir and heat up to boiling point.
Remove from stove and stir in 50 g of butter
Add in pasta boiled to al dente
Salt to taste.
 
what is nuckedly?

I mispelled it I think is Nukedly...and a Hungarian food website calls it "galuska"

Its a Hungarian noodle thing that's real thick and chewy. You make them by spooning the dough into boiling water by hand. I guess maybe its more of a mini dumpling, but I still classify it as a noodle. My mom/grandma makes them with Chicken Puprikas which is basically chicken in red gravy.
 
Eek. Sorry. Here's my recipe:

1 cup magic flying dust
3 metric tons of spagetti
1 monster
80000 gallons of water

Bring water to a boil (you may have to burn a few peasants in order to get the fire hot enough). Dump spagetti, magic flying dust, and monster into boiling water. Stir for about 30 minutes. Drain, and then SERVE YOUR MASTER, THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER!

Parmesan cheese optional.
Interesting Recipe...where in the heck do you find a pan big enough to make that in?






BTW...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
 
I mispelled it I think is Nukedly...and a Hungarian food website calls it "galuska"

Its a Hungarian noodle thing that's real thick and chewy. You make them by spooning the dough into boiling water by hand. I guess maybe its more of a mini dumpling, but I still classify it as a noodle. My mom/grandma makes them with Chicken Puprikas which is basically chicken in red gravy.

i tried to look it up, but found nothing. and yeah, paprikash is a delicious dish, and one can never go wrong with dumplings.