No-Cook or Simple-Cooked Pasta Sauces
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How long can I "hold" cooked pasta in its cooking water?
Comments (9)The latter. From rolling boil cook for two minutes then drain, shock in ice water, drain, stir in just enough olive oil to coat, put in fridge until needed. Supposedly can be held for up to six hours, but I've never gone that long. It can cook more quickly than expected after that, so start checking after a minute or two. Another method which I've never tried is a cold soak. Soak the pasta in cold water anywhere from 1.5 to 4 hours, pull it out and cook as needed. Supposedly this pasta only takes a minute to cook. Are you anticipating cooking individual servings as the guests arrive? That's the only reason I'd see for using either of these methods. Either way you have to boil the pasta, so unless you want to feed them the moment they walk in the door what does it matter if the pasta takes one minute to cook or twelve? If it's a sit-down dinner I'd just have a big pot of water waiting at barely a simmer so that you can bring it to a boil quickly when needed....See MoreCooking for a crowd, but food needs to be cooked ahead of time...
Comments (10)Let's see, what can be made ahead and frozen? Chicken pot pie, or even better since you're at the ocean, Lobster Pot Pie, I saw Ina Garten make one and couldn't figure out why I'd never thought of it. She used puff pastry dough, making it fast, instead of homemade dough. Cabbage rolls do well made ahead and frozen, then baked with the sauce when needed, or just cooked all day in a crockpot. Macaroni and cheese is easy and fast to put together and nearly everyone likes it. A "taco bar" has been discussed here many times, and it's something that people can put together as they like, you can use ground meat, marinated chicken, pulled pork or beef, or all or any combination, and some tortilla chips along with the toppings could yield nachos and taco salad for those who like that. LindaC's idea of meatloaf is a good one, and a couple of roasted chickens can yield hot chicken sandwiches, that above mentioned pot pie, chicken tetrazzini, chicken salad sandwiches, chicken enchiladas. You can't go wrong with a couple of roasted chickens. Your leftover roast can yield a shepherd's pie too, my girls loved it, along with Spanish Rice made with ground beef to make it a full meal. As well as dinners, how about breakfast? Lots of breakfast casseroles are quick and easy, and I make Woodie's Creme Brulee French Toast the night before and just bake it in the morning. The smell alone got my kids out of bed! Biscuits and gravy are pretty fast, if you bake biscuits the night before for supper and then heat them in the morning. BreaKfast burritos are easy to make ahead and freeze, as are "McMuffins", which then only need thawing and heating. Oatmeal cooks overnight with fruit in the crockpot really well too. I'm sure you have cookies, brownies, desserts covered. LOL Cookies and brownies freeze well, but the dough can also be made ahead and refrigerated for a day or two, and baked off as needed. Oh, and I have a cinnamon roll recipe that calls for making the dough the night before, letting it rise in the refrigerator and baking them the next day for hot, fresh cinnamon rolls, if you're interested in that. Annie...See MoreNeed a simple recipe to cook tuna
Comments (11)Annie, I marinate it and then dh cooks it outdoors. The salsa is mango, red onion, red serrano pepper, olive oil, lime juice, and cilantro. Blackened Tuna tuna cut into 1 inch thick steaks 4 tablespoons butter 4 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon Paul Prudhomme’s Blackened Redfish Magic 1 teaspoon Tony Chachere’s Creole Seasoning ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper CUT tuna into steaks. Place in shallow dish (like pie plate). MELT butter in small saucepan over low heat; add olive oil and seasonings. Stir well. Pour over tuna. Flip tuna after covering with marinade. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 hours. HEAT a cast iron skillet for approximately 10 minutes till smoking hot. (This can be done outdoors over a propane burner or indoors with adequate ventilation.) When pan is hot, add tuna and marinade. Cook, turning once, a total of 1 ¾ - 2 minutes for rare, 3 minutes for medium-well done....See MorePasta for casserole, cooked or not
Comments (12)Louise, I also agree on the one pound dry, since that's often the weight of one box. The right amount to fit your pan is another option, but then you might have to adjust the rest. I thought from the title that you were going to ask if you should cook it. :) Some recipes have you put it in dry and add liquid to cook it in to the casserole. For a more normal casserole, I usually use pasta that's a little undercooked so it can soak up the liquid that weeps from the ingredients when they get hot....See Morestacy3
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