{"id":1049,"date":"2013-04-27T23:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2013-04-27T23:00:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T06:00:09","slug":"recipe-34-michael-simons-fettuccine-alfredo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/recipe-34-michael-simons-fettuccine-alfredo\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipe #34: Michael Simon’s Fettuccine Alfredo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last weekend, Matt was away running the Ragnar Relay, so I decided to go check out Steampunk day at the Renaissance Faire with a friend. It was very cool to see all the costuming that people have come up with. Including a crazy awesome steampunk I-Pad case. I can totally see myself getting into the whole steampunk craze, but I just don’t have that level of\u00c2\u00a0commitment\u00c2\u00a0right now!<\/p>\n

It was the first really hot day we have had here this season though, so we didn’t stay long. My allergies combined with the dry, dusty air and smoke from a nearby brush fire was also giving me a nasty sinus headache. After getting home, I did what most people do after a day like that… Took proper care of my Renaissance dress, jumped in a cold shower, and parked myself in front of the TV until my headache went away.<\/p>\n

At some point, it dawned on me that Matt would still not be home for several hours and I should probably feed myself. Still having a bit of a headache, I really didn’t feel like thinking about what to make. Thankfully, I was catching up on episodes of The Chew and this was the recipe that was being prepared. After watching the segment, doing a quick mental inventory and determining that angel hair was close enough to fettuccine I wandered into the kitchen to make it.<\/p>\n

It was a perfect recipe to make on\u00c2\u00a0autopilot. Quick, easy, simple. My only note, and this is a rule in general, use real\u00c2\u00a0Parmesan cheese, not the crappy green can stuff. Which is a good rule in general. I normally only use the 100% grated stuff for breading on chicken or something, but after reading this article<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0the next day, Matt said that even that wasn’t an option any more, and I agree!! Sadly, I had a wedge of the real stuff in the fridge, but I was being lazy and cheap, and it was a mistake. The fake stuff clumped up in the butter\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0and was, in a word, blech. As the main problem was the cheese was separate from the sauce, I was still able to eat the noodles in what was essentially a butter-shallot sauce which was still good. I will say, it was similar to, but not quite as good as, the Creamy Garlic Pasta<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0I made previously. This was nice though, as it was a traditional alfredo, it didn’t require any cream which I don’t normally have on hand.\u00c2\u00a0I need to make this again, the RIGHT way with real cheese, to truly give an opinion on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fettuccine Alfredo   Last weekend, Matt was away running the Ragnar Relay, so I decided to go check out Steampunk day at the Renaissance Faire with a friend. It was very cool to see all the costuming that people have come up with. Including a crazy awesome steampunk I-Pad case. I can totally see myself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,4],"tags":[827,686,817,825,792,794,826,293,673],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}