Thursday, February 20, 2014

How To Make A Pasta Medley

I guess I get my strokes of cooking brilliance when I am especially hungry.

One day I was super hungry in my house and I really wanted to have pasta with tomato sauce. My mom had pre-made tomato sauce a while ago and we froze it just for this reason.  The problem here was the pasta.  So I grabbed all the half empty pasta boxes around the kitchen that didn't have enough pasta left to actually make a full batch and put it on the table.  I came up with a revolutionary idea:


  1. Get all the random pasta shapes from around your kitchen
  2. Look at the times that it takes to cook each one
  3. Put them in order from which takes the longest to cook to the shortest to cook
  4. Boil some water
  5. Find the difference between the longest cooking and the second longest
  6. Put the longest cooking in and cook for the difference
  7. Put the second longest in and cook for the difference between that and the third longest
  8. Continue until you get to the one that takes the shortest amount to cook
  9. Cook the shortest for the full time
  10. Eat your very delicious pasta
Example:
 Let's say that I have penne (about 10 min), macaroni (about 9 min), and farfalle (about 14 min).  I would first put in the farfalle for 4 minutes.  Then I would add the penne for 1 minute.  Then I would add the macaroni for 9 minutes.  

After I made this I added some pasta sauce to the pot and some cheese and ate it.  It was delicious.  I have pictures:

Here it is in the pot

Here it is on my plate with sauce and cheese

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