What do you eat when you’re bummed out, stressed, and don’t feel like cooking?
With my better half out of town attending to a family emergency and work driving me completely nuts, I haven’t felt like cooking since Monday: totally bizarre for me.
What I wanted was for Chuck Hughes to come over and cook me dinner. Or to have Rainforest Café Pastalaya. Or to have a filet with béarnaise sauce, Potatoes Papalette, tableside spun salad and crème brulee topped with a drizzle of Amaretto from Gianni’s (that’s the dinner I want EVERY day, by the way).
After several nights of eating a couple handfuls of whatever for dinner, I decided last night that it was time to venture back into the kitchen and make something easy and comforting. I wanted to feel warm and full and to spend no more than 10 minutes cooking. Enter the world’s most famous comfort food: BUTTERED NOODLES.
I sautéed some garlic and onions in olive oil
Boiled some angel hair pasta in salty water
Mixed the garlic/onion mixture and pasta in the sauté pan, plated it, and topped it all with a pat of butter, grated parmesan cheese and some Italian seasoning.
If I had some spinach and tomatoes I would have added them. If I had chicken and panko I would have added that too. But that would have taken more than 10 minutes.
Table 110 