Guest Post: I Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Recipes!

(This is the third in a series of guest posts by Julie) Sometimes it’s just too hot to follow a recipe. The first recipe-less item I created was some cream cheese wontons. Just put a dab of cream cheese in the middle of a wonton, close it up ever so gently, and stick it on [...]

Whereupon I make badly formed improv pasta, giving you all of the gory details

Pseudo-homemade pasta is so amazingly easy to make, it’s disgusting. Actually, it’s rather tasty when done right, but that’s beside the point. Pseudo-homemade past requires two ingredients: pasta, and sauce. So you open up a box of the noodle shape of your choice, dump them in a pot with some water, and boil. Then you [...]

Galactic Improv Pasta

There are two types of pasta in this world. There is planned pasta, and there is improv pasta. Planned pasta is often the result of a recipe, where you have a trip to the grocery store and spend precious dollars to get fabulous ingredients for the making of your dinner. Then there is improv pasta. [...]

Improv Pasta with Cheese

Cheese is a beautiful thing. Pasta is an excellent vehicle for aiding in the transport of cheese from container to mouth. Thusly, we have pasta and cheese. It should be noted that I desperately avoid the more traditional macaroni and cheese. And by ‘traditional’, I mean ‘elbow macaroni’. I care not that all those 2834792374 [...]