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This isn't food porn. This is sleaze... bad sleaze.
I started with:
5/8 lb ground turkey, browned and drained
I put it in a skillet. Then I found:
Bow tie pasta, about as much as you'd pull out of a Hamburger Helper box that got way too old so its sauce mix had to be thrown away but you kept the pasta for another year or so because you figured it must be good for something -- maybe two cups?
One can Campbell's Cheddar Cheese Soup
I added those. Then I started to improvise:
Hmm, the soup is usually made with milk. Okay, a can of milk
Hmm, the pasta will need water. Okay, a can of water
That looks gooey. 2 tablespoons cornstarch
Minced onion -- I used dried-up instant minced onion -- quantity: fill up the jar lid and pour that in
Ground black pepper, enough to cover a patch about the size of an index card on the surface of the sauce
About ten shakes of garlic powder
Nutmeg until it starts to smell really really good
I covered it and simmered about ten minutes, stirring a lot because I hadn't been smart enough to use a whisk to break up the Campbell's soup glop before it glued itself into every fold of the pasta. Then I took the lid off and just boiled it all down until the resemblance to barf was less noticeable. It wasn't bad! In hindsight I believe I overdid the garlic, but everything else seemed okay. It's much less hideous than most of my kitchen experimentation!
The cats didn't want to lick the bowl when I was done. I think they don't like nutmeg. (One of 'em will definitely eat garlic, onion, or pepper, if there's either cheese or turkey in the offing. So it must be the nutmeg. Or they don't like the look of barf.)
Next time: less garlic (all it's for is to disguise the fact I'm a bad cook) and use anything but bow tie pasta. The middle of a bow tie pasta piece doesn't even get al dente before the ends are actively disintegrating.
I started with:
5/8 lb ground turkey, browned and drained
I put it in a skillet. Then I found:
Bow tie pasta, about as much as you'd pull out of a Hamburger Helper box that got way too old so its sauce mix had to be thrown away but you kept the pasta for another year or so because you figured it must be good for something -- maybe two cups?
One can Campbell's Cheddar Cheese Soup
I added those. Then I started to improvise:
Hmm, the soup is usually made with milk. Okay, a can of milk
Hmm, the pasta will need water. Okay, a can of water
That looks gooey. 2 tablespoons cornstarch
Minced onion -- I used dried-up instant minced onion -- quantity: fill up the jar lid and pour that in
Ground black pepper, enough to cover a patch about the size of an index card on the surface of the sauce
About ten shakes of garlic powder
Nutmeg until it starts to smell really really good
I covered it and simmered about ten minutes, stirring a lot because I hadn't been smart enough to use a whisk to break up the Campbell's soup glop before it glued itself into every fold of the pasta. Then I took the lid off and just boiled it all down until the resemblance to barf was less noticeable. It wasn't bad! In hindsight I believe I overdid the garlic, but everything else seemed okay. It's much less hideous than most of my kitchen experimentation!
The cats didn't want to lick the bowl when I was done. I think they don't like nutmeg. (One of 'em will definitely eat garlic, onion, or pepper, if there's either cheese or turkey in the offing. So it must be the nutmeg. Or they don't like the look of barf.)
Next time: less garlic (all it's for is to disguise the fact I'm a bad cook) and use anything but bow tie pasta. The middle of a bow tie pasta piece doesn't even get al dente before the ends are actively disintegrating.
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As for "having a clue" -- what fun is that? Most of the fun of cooking is experimentation and figuring out combinations that work. I say keep experimenting -- the occasional pot of food that looks like vomit is a small price to pay! :)