…is SO much easier than you could ever imagine.  Dare I say it’s as easy as opening a box and pouring it into boiling water?  Well…maybe it’s not as easy, but takes about the same amount of time since fresh pasta cooks for a couple minutes compared to boxed pasta at 10+ minutes.

With my last night of break (tear….sigh….), I decided to make dinner since it’s unlikely I will be home to do so for a few more weeks.

I followed this recipe, but used an extra egg, which I saw in other recipes.  I also used a few splashes of water to get things moving.  Making the dough took <5 minutes, then I wrapped it up and left in the fridge for some R&R until dinner time 😉

For the sauce, I made a red pepper cream sauce, from some cook book.  It was 1 medium onion and a pound of red peppers sauteed in olive oil and butter, then simmered for 40 minutes.  Then quickly food process it all, pour it back into the pan, add 1 cup of milk and a half cup of parm cheese.  Easy as that.  The recipe called for cream, but I used milk. I used 1% milk because Russ already commented on my expanding muffin top (not as cruelly as that sounds…but there was a diagram involved).

Easy dinner and people think you did a lot more work than you actually did!!

And German Chocolate cupcakes for dessert, which my dad and I made while the sauce cooked.

De nada, mis amigos.