You Better Believe It's Spaghetti!

I’m not so big on introductory posts so here’s all that you need to know about this blog and me. I’m a dude who doesn’t necessarily know how to cook so I’m making a blog (a web log to the cavemen demographic out there) to show other non-cookers what’s what. You can call me “Cook-Dude” “Cook-Guy” or “A Disappointment” according to my older sister. Whatever floats your boat, cause I really don’t care.

So being my first post I thought I’d start off with something easy. Like spaghetti. It’s Italian! Italians are easy (going) right?

Where the magic will soon happen.  

To start off this recipe of (hopefully) non-disaster these are the main ingredients I used:

Barilla Whole Grain Noodles

&

Classico Italian Sausage

The gang's all here guys!

One could also use some sort of ground beef as meatballs but I pussied out and decided not to because I’m like that sometimes.

Step 1: Get a pot. Fill a little over half way full of water and place it on the stove like so. 

You're doing great so far! Keep it up you! 

Step 2: Turn the heat up high so the water can start to boil. Put a pinch of salt in as well to speed things up. Also a smidgen of olive oil so that the noodles won’t stick. Speaking of olive oil….

I'll take "Things Not To Do" for $100, Alex. 

ONLY PUT A SMIDGEN OF OIL INTO THE POT! Otherwise it will just be a hot-tub of olive oil boiling away your noodles and nobody wants that.

You're a virgin for a reason.  

Anyways after dumping out that vat of oil, I proceeded to fill the pot with water again but this time I only added a drop of oil. 

Step 3: Wait until the water starts to boil. This may take awhile depending on how high you keep your heat settings.

Step 4: Once the water starts to boil add your noodles! Add noodles by breaking them in half over the pot so that the excess noodles don’t fly anywhere. 

Boil them till you hear their screams.

The amount of noodles you add depends on how many people you plan on serving. So chances are if you are reading this you’ll be cooking just for one. 

Here’s a song to help you cope with that feeling.

Step 5: Once the noodles are in the pot you wait again for roughly 10-15 minutes. Once it’s approaching the end mark, scoop out a noodle and cut it with a fork. The softer it is, the better to eat!

Step 6: Pick whatever sauce you want. There’s a variety of them so don’t be stingy with it. I however chose Classico’s Italian Sausage sauce. 

 

Just look at that sauce. 

Step 7: Eat your work you magnificent chef!


Guest Eater of the Week: Austin aka friend in my classes

Whose first words after eating a bite of the italian food were:

"Whole wheat noodles... Very healthy."

The recipe I drew from:

Well partially drew from, as the other half was mainly from my mother texting me every five minutes asking how it's going. 

And the text message from my ever encouraging sister of her hearing the news of my expenditure.  

She doesn't know she's adopted yet.

So there you have it! You now know how to cook and eat spaghetti! Don't you feel like you've accomplished something?! 

Not really? 

Well me either... but really I did. Yay! 

Tune in next week where I turn rice and meat into one, creating it’s ultimate form of:

CHILI!