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

[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.