recipe for Spaghetti Carbonizeda

[jazzfish]

or "Blackened Spaghetti" if you will

1. Turn the back burner on medium-high because this stove is old / underpowered. Put the pot on the back burner and add some olive oil.
   
2. Sautee some onions and garlic.
   
3. Add some carrots (yes) and bell pepper. If you had ground beef this is when you'd add it and brown it.
   
4. Add a can of crushed tomatoes (normally I'd use pureed tomatoes, or stick-blend them for a minute) and a bunch of mushrooms, and some more water.
   
5. Wait til it all comes to a boil.
   
6. Turn the front burner to Simmer.
   
7. Check on it in forty minutes or so. Swear because it's boiled dry and burnt to the bottom of the pot.
   
8. Have salad with leftover chicken and potatoes for dinner instead.

Unfamiliar stoves are the worst. Thankfully the pot was anodized, and pouring some more water to deglaze worked pretty well.

Comments

[sartorias]

I have soooo many recipes like that...

[jazzfish]

They are not my favourites! But they keep turning up anyway.

[davidgoldfarb]

I have to admit I didn't see step 7 coming. Sympathies.

[jazzfish]

It's step 6 that really makes it. Or unmakes it, as the case may be.

(Thanks.)

[jadelennox]

oh this is one of my most commonly made dinners!

[jazzfish]

And yet literally nobody wants it! One of life's great mysteries.

[shadowkat]

LOL! Yes, been there. done that. New electric stoves are a pain. I miss gas stoves - easier to manage. You can at least tell if the flame is high and it's getting hot.

[jazzfish]

This one is twenty at least thirty years old; it's just New To Me. Hazard of cooking in someone else's house.

I -do- appreciate the mechanical convenience of gas stoves. I had a low-end gas stove for a few years and it was better than all but the best electric ranges I've used. Shame about the 'slowly poisoning you' thing.

[shadowkat]

Yup. I agreed with my landlords and supers for removing the gas stove and oven. But, alas, I miss the ease of cooking on it. Now it takes a good thirty minutes to pre-heat it. Still safer than the gas all around.

And the landlord had gotten tired of gas leaks.

[jessie_c]

Alternate step 7: Suffer heart failure as the smoke alarm starts wailing, run around frantically opening windows and fanning the detector in a futile effort to get it to shut up, dammit!

[jazzfish]

Oh, I learned years ago to disable the Cooking Detector before I start doing anything involving applying heat to food!

[green_knight]

Oh the disappointment.

Was just reminiscing today; one of my pots has seen too many incarnations of this recipe; it scrubs up very well. Best investment I've made - I got it a couple of weeks after moving into my first student digs because I wanted to cook proper food, dammit, and my mum's castoffs were... not very good.