Gregory Lions: Hi, I am Greg Lions and I am going to help you, yes you, young guy bachelor, make yourself a good meal. I make great meal and that is some prep out of the can, but a good old plate of pasta.
Any shape will do, tonight I am using Penne. This is Barilla, you can buy Ronzoni or whatever, variable brands available in supermarket. Pasta, one pound. First thing you do is fill yourself up a pot of water to flame on high, so it'll boil, and here is a little hint if you want it to boil faster, put a lid on, wait till you see actively boiling water.
As you can see the water is boiling, it's time to make our move. Gently pour in the pot, and pour gently, if you pour in too fast and you'll splatter the boiled water. That is finished. Now once it's poured in there you want to stir it around a little bit. Get yourself a spoon, stir it up a little, just keep an eye on it, give it about six to ten minutes. It helps if you have a kitchen timer, set the timer, I am setting mine for ten, now you keep an eye on it.
Now you've got to decide on what kind of sauce you want. Most of the times you'll choose tomato sauce, tonight I am using a butter sauce. So my next hint is take butter out, have it out while the water is boiling, leave it on the counter, it gets softer that way. The Advantage is it will mix with the pasta better -- got about five more minutes. But you don't have to wait, I'll speed through the magic of cinematography.
You have to take the pot, dump the water out, not normally a tough move. I suggest you to use a pot holder, first of all, although it sense not normally a tough move except it is when you're holding a camcorder because I was too lazy to go upstairs and get my tripod. So I am holding the camcorder, bringing the pot over to the sink, I'm going to pour it in the strainer. Again, pour it slowly, in case you don't want to get hit with splattering boiling water, pour it slowly, see there you go. There it is.
Now you're going to shake that, just shake out the excess water. As you can see the water is gone. You're going to put it back in the pot, but before you do that you take your butter sauce, that's about a quarter stick, half a stick, it's about four ounces of butter, and just dump that into the pot, see. Put it at the bottom because when you're to dump the pasta on top of it, that's going to melt into the pasta and that's what you wanted, see. Look, here we go, one hand, look at that, didn't make a mess too much.
Okay, we will add it. Okay, now you got the pasta and then you are going to stir it, see, stir, stir it. You want to stir it, you want get that butter spread through there, spread the butter, nice and evenly, that way all the past is buttery, tasty buttery, piece of cake. Even you can do it if you just put that beer down and stay sober. Transfer the pasta when it's finished, from the pot to the plate and voila! You've got yourself a tasty pasta dinner. Put salt and pepper on it, however you like, you've just made yourself a meal, congratulations. That's good.
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