MyFridgeFood - Amazing Tomato Basil Pasta
Oh,No.Not Her
MyFridgeFood - Amazing Tomato Basil Pasta
MyFridgeFood - Amazing Tomato Basil Pasta
Oh,No.Not Her
Sounds like something I'd use to get out of a grocery store trip by using some standard pantry items while I did something else in the kitchen - and I'd also likely use more garlic.
Lampy
I've seen this before, and always wanted to give it a shot, but the purchasing of the basil always kept me from just doing a pantry toss-and-go.
Lampy
Also the boyfriend is a butt and probably wouldn't eat it and then I'd have all this pasta that I'd need to eat myself. 
Oh,No.Not Her
I am a bad foodie, and have used dried basil or pesto sauce when they told me to use fresh. There is only one recipe I have that absolutely requires a fresh spice, and that's the starter mead.
Searra
I'd make that. It's similar to the Silver Palate pasta recipe, which is in heavy rotation here during local tomato season.
Oh,No.Not Her
"Starter" because it works better if you bake regularly and have good wild yeasts in your environment.
Lampy
It looks like the sort of recipe that would benefit strongly from the leafy green presence.
Lampy
(I have to wonder if I could substitute spinach...)
Lampy
(And dried basil.)
Corgi
This could work in a rice cooker.
This could work in a rice cooker.
Corgi
Lampy
: God yes. This is basically making your sauce and pasta at the same time. Go wild, you cannot hurt this.
Lampy
I love putting spinach in things. 
Lampy
A disturbingly large portion of my diet these days is spicy ramen with as much spinach in it as the pot will accept.
Lampy
I gotta do this, then.
Corgi
That sounds really healthy! (Try some Bulldog Sauce in your ramen cooking water, it does wonderful things.
Corgi
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Lampy
The sodium is likely doing me few favors.
Lampy
But it's so delicious, man.
Tanarian
Lampy
: Find a low-sodium bouillon instead of the ramen's packet.
Lampy
But the spicy ramen packet is the entire point!
Lampy
It's not a bowl of Shin Ramyun if it's not bright red and delicious.
Lampy
That's like telling someone to just eat rice cakes when they really enjoy potato chips.
Lampy
(I will have more money coming in soon, so I will thankfully be able to reduce the quantity of ramen in my diet.)
Tanarian
Ohhhh, I see. I bet you could get some Rooster Sauce and chili oil and reproduce the effect easily, though - even if it is a little more effort. [/hides rice cakes and Santitas]
Lampy
It's not just chili and garlic flavor, though. It's got a beef-mushroom-anchovy base going on.
Lampy
I have done beef broth with sriracha and it is just not the same, alas.
Lampy
(Rice cakes have their merits but they are rice cakes, not chips. 
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Tanarian
Lampy
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Tanarian
I still think there could be a low-sodium way to repro that.
Tanarian
Here is a scratch version, but that's too complicated for what we're after, right?
Tanarian
This one looks faster, and we might have the secret ingredient: gochujang.
Tanarian
Then this forum entry recommends anchovy dashida, mixed into a little oil. Use a miso broth base, and you might have it!