
But then, it’s so delicious that even if I’ve never achieved its pinnacle, the other versions are incredible, too. That there isn’t too much or too little of any one thing. Because there’s no place to hide if I screw it up.ĭo you have a simple dish like this in your arsenal? Is there something that you feel could always be just a little better than it was the last time? For me this is that dish. Good quality pasta needs little more than a drizzle of olive oil or melted butter and a sprinkle of coarse salt, making it easy to customize the dish according to your taste, budget, or pantry just about anything you have on hand can be used to make a flavorful pasta dish. To be sure the pasta is perfectly al dente. Both of these things make me push myself to make it better every time I cook it. My wife fell in love with it on her last visit as well. Buttery garlic pasta is one of their favorite foods, whether as a side dish or as a meal in itself. You can create perfectly cooked, flavorful pasta dishes in just a few simple. To make it perfectly every time is something that I strive for… And so far have not mastered. The best kind of noodles boil down to two things: great ingredients and. A novice cook can easily make this dish and make it well. It has just 5 ingredients and takes less than 15 minutes to prepare. You can’t cover a mistake with another layer, or a touch of this or that. In a simple dish there is no room for error. I feel that the simplest of dishes with the fewest ingredients actually take more skill to master than dishes with complex ingredient lists and prolonged methods. No matter what skill level you reach as a cook or what triumphs of culinary complication you manage to master over the course of a lifetime it’s a plain simple truth that sometimes simpler is better.
