I eat a lot of pasta. I make a homemade spaghetti sauce that is quite good; I make it kinda spicy, use habanero peppers. I also use habaneros when I make chili mac, my second favorite way to dress up pasta. I plan on making spaghetti sauce Sunday, so I will have something for lunches at work for a few days. I think this time I will add ricotta cheese to it, something I havenāt done in a while, and possibly boil some frozen tortellini instead of plain pasta. I used to make my own pasta (including tortellini, ravioli, etc.), itās actually quite easy to make, but the cleanup is a pain, so itās been years since Iāve done it that way.
Yeah, itās really simple. I learned how to do that when I was a teenager. I used to be so good at making it that I could start the water on the stove and have the dough made, rolled out and cut by the time the water came to a boil.
The only times I have made homemade pasta in recent years was when I was trying to impress someone, typically a woman I was dating. I would have her over for dinner and make her homemade pasta with homemade sauce.
I really like chicken parm with spaghettiā¦with extra sauce on spaghetti. I can get it around here but I have to go to a restaurant and they donāt deliver. Iām from NY so I use to get it delivered a lot. oh yea, and I like my food spicyā¦so with extra red pepper and a little oregano
Another food I used to make to impress is calzones. I make my own dough and filling and everything. I like Neapolitan calzones. A lot of people hear āNeapolitanā and think chocolate, vanilla and strawberry, as in Neapolitan ice cream, but the word Neapolitan just refers to something being from Naples. A Neapolitan calzone is filled with a mixture of ricotta, parmesan and mozzarella cheeses, along with salami cut into strips. Well, thereās also eggs in there to bind it, as well as salt, pepper and parsley. Soooo good.