Feeling Saucy

The Noodle.

I have a love hate relationship with the noodle. Lets start with the love. Noodle is quick, noodle is easy, noodle is cheap.
There are so many different kinds of noodles, like macaroni or a personal favorite of mine campanelle. When you're not feeling particularly tuscan there are bean thread noodles, soba, and udon. Just like people, noodles come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors.
Its crazy to think that a something that spans so broadly through so many types of cuisine would ever get tiring but in my experience with the noodle, i've been tired. real tired.

thats where that hate comes in. there is something so inherently repetitive about noodles. In my house it felt like we had spaghetti with tomato sauce every other night. Its not the noodle's fault though! Its the sauce.

I discovered this curious folly when I first made puttanesca. I was like "OMG pasta is awesome!" Then I made a goat cheese with italian sausage and kale and was like "this rocks!" Then I made a rice vermicelli and cabbage cold noodle salad and was like "this is so refreshing!" Then I made peanut noodles, which I had never had before and felt like I had just found a part of myself I never knew I had.

Moral of the story is, noodles can be great, sauces can be boring. When you are reaching for the jar of tomato sauce you're just selling yourself short. This week my friend Dori and I got together and got saucy.

We made a simple tomato sauce

2lbs roma tomatos
2 heads of garlic
salt and pepper to taste
red chilli flakes

total cost $4.86, thats under $3.oo a person. Thats like a shitty bagel from au bon pain. and it was sooo good.

moral of the story is talk is cheap but sauce is cheaper.








http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Garlic-Tomato-Sauce-242340