Some Cooking Advice (Pasta)

[StygiaN]

I'm going to do some cooking tomorrow night for my food for the rest of my work week. It's going to be pasta but I just want ideas for what to do. I always seem to do a tomato based sauce with onions and garlic or an oil/garlic dish. It's boring me.

What can one do to make pasta a bit more exciting?

[berserk]

add some meat or bacon, &/or
add some chili powder, &/or
add provence herbs

2 nights ago I made speg with a sauce of olive oil, black olives, onions, garlic, thyme & bacon with salt, black pepper, chili powder & chedder to taste. Simple but edible.

[dogwomble]

I always find that the recipe otherwise known as "A Random Combination Of Crap I Found In My Fridge Tossed Into A Frying Pan And Cooked Up" works well.

[MisterBishi]

How about don't cook pasta? Pasta is the most boring food in all of the world. Fact.

[excalibur]

I always find that the recipe otherwise known as "A Random Combination Of Crap I Found In My Fridge Tossed Into A Frying Pan And Cooked Up" works well.
I am the master at this. AKA: random pasta creation of DOOM!!!!!

NB. Chillies/Chilli sauce/tobasco is your friend.

[StygiaN]

How about don't cook pasta? Pasta is the most boring food in all of the world. Fact.

But it's cheap, easy and reheats very well. Good food to take to work for the next few days.

Ok, got chili to add. A bit of kick should be nice with the pasta!

[Buffy]

If you're bored with pasta as you've said, go for something different, cook a batch of curry and rice, yum! :cool:

[StygiaN]

I have no experience in cooking that sort of stuff. Do they say what ingredients are required on the back of those curry sauce containers? Rice is easy. More variety with curries too.

Hmm. Buffy is on to something. +rep

[Buffy]

I'd say go for a curry paste that you like rather than a bottle of sauce, they still have straight forward instructions and you'll get a much better flavour plus you can still add your extras like chilli or garlic to taste.
In short CURRY RULES :p

[berserk]

Do you have an oven?

How about a pasta bake (http://pasta.allrecipes.com/az/McrnindChsBk.asp)?

[annie]

i agree with buffy, go curry!

[StygiaN]

We do have an oven berserk. My bro makes pasta bake a fair bit. Looks like a lot of work, using the oven and all that.

I think it will be a curry. Looks like i'll be stopping at woolies on the way home tomorrow. If you're interested I will keep you abreast to how it all goes.

Mmmm I wonder how hard it is to cook pad thai!

[MisterBishi]

Curry is the fucking bomb, man. And it cures cancer and shit, man.

Go with the curry, man.

[RedMaN]

nah... pasta bake is da bomb!! My housemate cooked it tonite and was very yummy :D
Simple..... cook the pasta first. Once done, grease up a baking dish and put pasta in. I usually like to get a one of those ready made sauces (Continental, Maggi, etc), add that with some tuna and stir until all mixed. Put a layer of cheese on top and cook in the oven untill cheese is all melted and brown.......mmmmmm, top stuff *thumbs up*

[lostreality]

some cooking advice


1)go to a restaurant
2)sit down
3)order
4)eat
5)pay
6)leave

[Natfu]

My secret and easy Awesome Bolognese recipe with a kick:

1 onion, chopped
Half a capful of "Mixed Herbs" (roughly 2 tablespoons)
1tsp minced Garlic
7-8 cloves (optional)
4ish bay leaves (optional too)
4 chopped hot Chilli's (optional. Add more if you like it REALLY HOT like me)
Whack the ingredients into your pot and start to heat it on high while adding:

1/2 kilo mince (i use weight watchers mince) Break it up and brown it.
Once you've browned it:
Put in a cup of red wine (i use cask wine)
1 tub of tomato paste
1 tin of chopped tomatoes
1 chopped capsicum
1/3 of a paper bag of mushies chopped.

Simmer it for at least 20 mins. The longer the better. Stir it occasionally.

Serve it up with your favourite pasta. I like the spirals. Don't forget to add shaved parmesan.

This is the best bolognese you'll ever taste.

[berserk]

5a) if pay < cost, wash dishes

[MisterBishi]

1 gram cocaine, pref. Bolivian, in powder form
Half a capful of "Mixed Herbs" (ahem)
1tsp Female Virgin's Ejaculate (This is rare)
7-8 chilli peppers
24 port bay networks 10/100 ethernet switch (optional)
4 chopped labia (optional. Add more if you like it REALLY HOT like me)
Whack the ingredients into your pot and start to heat it on high while adding:

1/2 kilo mints (i use altoids) Break it up and sell it to addicts.
Back to the recipe:
Put in a gallon of red wine
1 tub of Ronseal's Quick-Drying Wood Stain (Does exactly what it says on the tin)

1 tin of tinned stuff that the label has fallen off of
1 Take away curry
1/3 of a paper bag of magic mushies chopped.

Eat the take away curry and send the drugs & ethernet switch to me. The rest is mostly garbage.

Serve it up however the hell you like, I'll be too off my tits to care.

[Natfu]

Hah, I didn't think "Mixed Herbs" would be taken that way :)

[Drakin]

Try a fettucini bosciola.

Just get mushrooms, bacon, shallots, spanish onion, thickend cream, some cheese (parmesan is good)

Chop it all and cook the onions, bacon, salt n pepper, then shallots, then mushrooms, chuck in the cream when that smells nice, cook till it bubbles, then simmer it till it thickens, chuck it over pasta... voila.

[thingy]

I am going to have to go with either a fuckload of chilli/curry powder, or add some diahhretic stuff (colon-blo etc). That will certainly make it more "exciting". ;)