There are times where you need to whip something up really quickly, and you don't have terribly many ingredients lying around. Hopefully, you've got some milk, butter, and flour. If you're really lucky, you've got a can of clams too. If you've got all that, lets get started!
Ingredients:
1 can of clams
2 T flour
2 T butter
1 cup milk
1/2 an onion, diced
Oregano
Garlic powder
Equipment:
1 quart pot
1 spoon
can opener
measuring implements
Directions:
1. Heat up the pot, adding in the butter
2. Add the flour to the melted butter, mixing to create a roux
3. Once well mixed, add in the milk and clams
4. Stir in the spices
5. Once thickened, remove from heat
Serve on top of Orecchiette, shells, or spaghetti (or any other kind of noodle. I'm not your boss.)
Should feed 4~5 people. If you double the recipe, you can easily just add more flour and neglect to add extra butter.
Possible Alterations:
Everything mentioned here, except for the clams, goes into a standard white sauce. You could use shrimp, tuna, mushrooms, or any other type of addition that you desire. If you add cheese, you can make a pretty tasty cheese sauce. If you don't have butter, you can use oil, or shortening, or probably even bacon fat.
Happy Gaming!
Showing posts with label pasta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pasta. Show all posts
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Whatever's in the Kitchen Pasta Salad
I've been moving these past few weeks, and I've been shorter on time than usual. Couple this with entertaining people, and you've got a need to make some food that's quick and stores nicely. I whipped this up from scratch the other day, and it turned out pretty well.
Ingredients:
1 lb pasta (penne and rotini are both good choices. Tortellini would also work.)
1 15 oz can of Garbanzo Beans
1 15 oz can corn
1 green bell pepper, diced
2 stalks celery, sliced
1/2 cup onion (Note that, as my mom says, you can't have too much onion)
1/2 cup roasted peanuts, crushed
dressing:
3/4 cup oil
1/4 cup Vinegar (Balsamic is tasty)
2 T Mayo (add more if it tastes too vinegary)
Salt
Pepper
Equipment:
Bowls x2
Chef Knife
Cutting Board
Fork
Directions:
1. Cook the pasta according to package directions
2. Once done, strain and dry the pasta
3. Mix pasta, bell pepper, celery, beans, corn, onion, and peanuts together.
4. Mix ingredients for dressing together. The dressing should be very well mixed before coating the salad.
5. Drizzle the dressing over the salad, stirring to coat the salad.
The pasta salad can be served immediately, and should serve a party of six.
Possible alterations:
There are many different variations on pasta salad. This article on All Recipes was very valuable to making this salad as good as it was. While this recipe could use some more work, it did turn out very well for being a spur of the moment thing. Any improvements, as always, are welcomed in the comments section.
Happy Gaming!
Ingredients:
1 lb pasta (penne and rotini are both good choices. Tortellini would also work.)
1 15 oz can of Garbanzo Beans
1 15 oz can corn
1 green bell pepper, diced
2 stalks celery, sliced
1/2 cup onion (Note that, as my mom says, you can't have too much onion)
1/2 cup roasted peanuts, crushed
dressing:
3/4 cup oil
1/4 cup Vinegar (Balsamic is tasty)
2 T Mayo (add more if it tastes too vinegary)
Salt
Pepper
Equipment:
Bowls x2
Chef Knife
Cutting Board
Fork
Directions:
1. Cook the pasta according to package directions
2. Once done, strain and dry the pasta
3. Mix pasta, bell pepper, celery, beans, corn, onion, and peanuts together.
4. Mix ingredients for dressing together. The dressing should be very well mixed before coating the salad.
5. Drizzle the dressing over the salad, stirring to coat the salad.
The pasta salad can be served immediately, and should serve a party of six.
Possible alterations:
There are many different variations on pasta salad. This article on All Recipes was very valuable to making this salad as good as it was. While this recipe could use some more work, it did turn out very well for being a spur of the moment thing. Any improvements, as always, are welcomed in the comments section.
Happy Gaming!
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Angel Hair Pasta with Vodka sauce
This recipe was initially tried on 01/16/2010. It has not been attempted a second time yet, but I will post the changes I made and how it tasted once it is made again.
Ingredients:
canned Vodka sauce
1 pkg sliced mushroom
rubbed sage
garlic powder
Angel hair pasta
Olive oil
Table salt
Recipe:
Boil the noodles with a dash of table salt and a capful of olive oil. Make certain to be watchful of the noodles. It is very easy to get distracted and overcook the noodles.
In a separate sauce pan, pour the mushrooms and Vodka sauce in and heat. Add garlic powder and rubbed sage to taste.
When the noodles are done, strain the water from them. I, personally, use a colander to strain my noodles.
Once the noodles are done and the sauce is heated, allow each party member to grab a plate and add as much sauce as desired.
A good side for this dish would be garlic bread. The store bought garlic bread that only needs to go in the oven and be served is an acceptable way to do this. A more in-depth guide to making ones own will come at a later date.
Feeds a party of four, in addition to the DM. This recipe scales well, however.
Analysis of the meal
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Good:
* Quick
* decently received
The Bad:
* Not enough sauce
* Somewhat bland
Closing thoughts:
* more sauce, less mushrooms (two jars of sauce, or larger jars.)
* make the whole package of noodles
* Sauté the mushrooms in butter with onions before adding to sauce, possibly even sautéing the mushrooms with shrimp and spicing it with the rubbed sage and garlic powder.
* A different variety of pasta may be nice. Possibly Bowtie pasta?
Ingredients:
canned Vodka sauce
1 pkg sliced mushroom
rubbed sage
garlic powder
Angel hair pasta
Olive oil
Table salt
Recipe:
Boil the noodles with a dash of table salt and a capful of olive oil. Make certain to be watchful of the noodles. It is very easy to get distracted and overcook the noodles.
In a separate sauce pan, pour the mushrooms and Vodka sauce in and heat. Add garlic powder and rubbed sage to taste.
When the noodles are done, strain the water from them. I, personally, use a colander to strain my noodles.
Once the noodles are done and the sauce is heated, allow each party member to grab a plate and add as much sauce as desired.
A good side for this dish would be garlic bread. The store bought garlic bread that only needs to go in the oven and be served is an acceptable way to do this. A more in-depth guide to making ones own will come at a later date.
Feeds a party of four, in addition to the DM. This recipe scales well, however.
Analysis of the meal
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Good:
* Quick
* decently received
The Bad:
* Not enough sauce
* Somewhat bland
Closing thoughts:
* more sauce, less mushrooms (two jars of sauce, or larger jars.)
* make the whole package of noodles
* Sauté the mushrooms in butter with onions before adding to sauce, possibly even sautéing the mushrooms with shrimp and spicing it with the rubbed sage and garlic powder.
* A different variety of pasta may be nice. Possibly Bowtie pasta?
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