Anything You Shall Need Already Exists In Your Kitchen

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I would like to help you to cook the most complicated recipes in the most simple and easy way!The only thing that counts in easy cooking is Imagination. Imagine that you were a painter but instead of colors you use any kind of food and instead of brushes you use dippers, knives and forks...

My Cooking Art is based on Alternative Ingredients e.g. you don't have peppers in your home, then put some onions, you don't have onions? Ok, let' s put some ham then...

First of all, know that you can use anything from your refrigerator. I mean salami, any type of cheese, sausages, ham, bacon, tomatoes, eggs, Tabasco sauce, mustard, ketchup, carrots, bear, wine, parsley, peppers, celery, soy sauce, mayonnaise, cream, milk...Then you can use any vegetable outside your refrigerator such as potatoes, onions, garlic etc

And finally you can use anything from your sideboards such as canned tuna fish, canned mushrooms, canned beans, canned corn, flour, salt, black pepper, oregano, chilli peppers, tomato juice etc...

So don't get frustrated... anytime you can be a great cook using anything available in your kitchen...

Well, let's begin with pasta... and the

Pasta Boiling Secret

The basic advice for the pasta is to boil them in plenty of water in which you add salt and a tablespoonful of oil. No matter if you prefer them 'al dente' or well boiled, or you are going to cook the half (250 gr.) or the whole packet (500 gr.) you have to fill up the copper with water, leaving a space of 2 inches from the copper's mouth.

Adding salt in the water (a teaspoonful for 250 gr and two teaspoonfuls for 500 gr of pasta) makes them more tasteful, no matter the sauce you are going to use. Adding oil helps you avoiding the phenomenon in which pasta get sticky and become a thick mass...

Do not forget to stir them frequently in the first 3-4 minutes.

To find out if they are cooked enough for your taste there is only one trick: pick a piece of pasta with a fork and taste it (to avoid any tongue burns, you can flush it with cool water).

Pasta 'Inferna'

Well this is one of my favourites 'made-easy' recipes and my family loves it. It's very hot though, so it's recommended only for the bold ones...

Ingredients

-Any type of pasta

-Fresh pepper or/and onion (Chopped in thin slices)

-Fresh hot (green or red) pepper (any type) or Boukovo (?) (Boukovo is the result of crumbling dried red hot peppers)

-500 gr. Tomato juice, or minced tomatoes or at least ketchup...

-Fresh mushrooms (chopped in thin slices) or canned ones

-Salt, pepper and oregano

Alternative

If you haven't got any mushrooms or even onion or fresh peppers you can use sliced ham, or bacon to give extra taste to the sauce!

Process

1. Put some funy/joyful music on! Remember Cooking means to have FUN!

2. Cook any type of pasta (spaghettini, linguini, penne, farfale, pennette, fusilli, rigatoni etc) in the way I advise you in the blog entry 'Boiling Pasta Secret'

3. In a saucepan, saute the chopped onions, fresh (non-hot) peppers, fresh hot peppers and mushrooms, until they get shrinked and red (not black which means that they are carbonized he he..)

4. Pour the tomato juice or minced tomatoes (or 200 gr of Ketchup with 200 gr water)

5. Add Boukovo (1 spoonful) or 1 teaspoonful of Tabasco sauce, 1 spf of salt, some black pepper and oregano.

6. Boil the sauce for 15 min.

AND THAT' S ALL! Good appetite and Fun!