Who the fuck eats pasta and rice?
Carbivores?
I thought they went extinct during the late Diabetassic
Not the most pressing question I had but we can start there I geuss.
Not me. Not without mashed potatoes and gravy.
Struggle dinner
As a person of Pacific Islander descent, rice is awesome and goes with everything.
Also if you’re on a budget rice is a cheap way to fill your stomach.
Rice and vermicelli is rice and pasta, and it’s wildly common, especially the cheap bagged side dish stuff.
So I guess I do.
That… doesn’t seem bad? No one would mind if he also put some vegetables in there and called it a pasta salad.
I’d try it. Like Mr cum fart pointed out the real crime is the pasta main with rice side
Pasta with cheese and mayonnaise seems like it could be alright. Rice is the weird one here imo
Wouldn’t that be added when the pasta is cold? I get the feeling OOP did this with hot pasta, possibly even heating the mayonnaise to make it more “like” Alfredo sauce.
Can’t be that bad, can it? I mean, pasta + cheesy cream sauce is a pretty tried and true combo.
Points for experimenting at least.
I’d try it.
Very few cheese sauces incorporate egg for a good reason. That assumes you give the poster the benefit of the doubt that they’re using real ingredients. Based off the pictures it’s more likely bagged pre-shredded cheese and jarred mayo which probably congreals into an emulsified hunk. Plus the amount of oil here will make you shit your pants
Carbonara is just egg and cheese.
Correct, it is one of the few
Very few cheese sauces incorporate egg for a good reason.
Don’t mind me, just putting way too much cheese in my carbonara again…
Does no one know how to make a roux? If you already had the cheese, I’m sure you had maybe some butter or oil on hand and some flour.
Butter or oil sure. You might be surprised how many people do not keep flour handy.
Last time we bought flour we had moths coming out of it like a year later
People know how to make one. The real difference here is caring to make one. It adds a noticeable amount of time and effort. In many cases, if the dish isn’t outright offensive and you can just shovel it down, then the end goal is achieved.
Don’t even need flour for Alfredo. Its just parm, butter, heavy cream (or milk) and the drippings from the meat part (usually chicken). If not, add a splash of chicken stock.
Mayonnaise is mostly oil and egg, which is kind of more akin to carbonara than Alfredo. That said, it has a sourness that isn’t going to mesh the same way-- basically, vinegar and/or lemon juice, which one generally wouldn’t want much of (if at all) in something meant to be creamy. Main reason I don’t particularly like it as a butter substitute in grilled cheese.
Knowing what goes into things like mayo, ketchup, Sriracha, etc, can work well when you’re in a pinch, though. It’s just harder to control the ratio of sugars, salts, and sour components so you have to offset that elsewhere.
I mean… so a hot pasta salad?
This is basically a war crime.
I’m a terrible cook personally, but my wife is fantastic at this stuff. Just FYI, you want a delicious cheese sauce, all you need is some milk or half & half, butter, and cheese. If you want it thicker, use less milk, or add a bit of cream cheese. Heat at a simmer and keep warm.
If you let it cool, it will firm up some and makes for a good cracker dip.
instructions unclear, I only had head cheese… it did not make a good sauce.
I’ve been in between paychecks and eaten worse than that.
Lotta food crime up in here. What the food feds doing about this?
They are in a food coma so nothing unfortunately
This is my first day on lemmy. This photo might make it the last.
Aww I’m sorry. Welcome to Lemmy!
That meal is for a man who doesn’t want to shit in a week
