"Curt Nelson" <X> wrote in message
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> Hi everybody:
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> And now, here's my favorite and extremely simple dish.
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> CPN's 30-second pasta
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> Ingredients:
> Cast Iron Skillet (mandatory)
> Kitchen Tongs (also mandatory)
> Pasta
> 3 tbs. Good Butter
> Black Pepper (in a grinder)
> Parmigiano Reggiano cheese in a rotary grater
> Fresh Basil, chiffonade
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> While your pasta is boiling, heat a cast iron skillet over medium heat.
> The pan should be damn hot, but not ridiculously hot. After you've drained
> the pasta, get ready, because this literally takes about 30 seconds.
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> Plop the butter into the pan and use your tongs to move the butter around
> quickly to melt and brown it as fast as possible. At the exact moment your
> butter is browned properly, drop your cooked pasta into the skillet and
> start turning with the tongs. The residual water on the pasta will cool
> the pan and prevent the butter from burning. In about 10 or 15 seconds,
> the pasta will be evenly coated with the browned butter.
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> Plate it and hit it with some fine black pepper and top it with the
> Reggiano and your basil chiffonade.
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> Serve to your date with a good wine and go have some sex. Bask in the
> afterglow the next morning.
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rotflmao...looks very good to me. As I've never made pasta, I'll give this a
try this week-end. Thanks

Harriet & critters -- we now live in azusa


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