We made an awesome pasta dish, and what’s more is we took pictures along the way, so you can make it too!
Here are the ingredients:
A large loaf of bread, some tarragon, butter, whipping cream, pasta sauce, cayenne pepper, penne pasta, garlic, basil, olive oil, onion, cooked shrimp, salt and pepper.
Cut up the onion:
…and chop it really small! Watch Zoe use her pampered chef onion chopper!
Meanwhile boil an obsene amount of penne pasta:
…and melt some butter in a large saucepan:
Now chop up a clove or two (or three) of garlic:
…and use an awesome garlic press to add it to the butter:
Add the chopped onion:
Cut up the shrimp. It’s recommended that you use a knife, and NOT an onion chopper! Heat the shrimp in a small saucepan.
Now, grab a glass of your favourite white wine (this is the wine that my parents made for our wedding):
…and add some to the pan:
Add half a can of pasta sauce. We used Tomato Basil and Romano Cheese sauce.
Don’t forget to stir your pasta!
Add some cream:
Add some the basil and tarragon and let it thicken. Add the shrimp.
It should be bubbling, like this:
Cut some thick slices from the loaf of bread.
Mix some butter and some garlic in a bowl:
Spread the garlicky butter onto the slices of bread.
Put it onto a pizza stone, and broil it. That’s right, crank the oven to its limits. Be sure to obsessively check it every 2 seconds! Don’t forget! This is what I do to avoid burning garlic bread: The entire time the bread is in the oven, I am on my knees in the kitchen. That way, I’m too short to reach anything that will distract me, and I am at the right level to smell burning coming from the oven as soon as possible. Warning! If you use this method, don’t stray too far from the oven! Rushing to the oven to rescue some burning garlic bread is never a nice thing, and it is not something that anybody should have to go through while on their knees.
Don’t forget about your pasta! When it’s done, drain it, and put it into your nicest pasta bowl. This one is a gift from Zoe’s mom.
Pour your sauce over the pasta.
We decided to cut up some mozzarella to shred over the pasta:
This is our sweet cheese grater in action:
GO CHECK THE GARLIC BREAD! IT’S PROBABLY DONE!
Serve it up, and shake some parmesean cheese over it. This shaker and the pasta bowls are gifts from Zoe’s mom.
Final pictures. The lighting was sub-par for these pictures…
Cheers!
p.s.
…come to think of it, we didn’t actually use the cayenne pepper. Somehow it made it into the picture…
