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[Bauglir]

Oil on pasta does reduce a propensity to boil over, though, if that's a problem for you. Still, I find that if I use short pasta (which I do, since it's easier for me to eat at my traditionally obnoxious rate) and don't overcook it, clumping is easily resolved with stirring in the sauce (which, again, might be a weird habit of mine, but I try to use only a single pot to minimize washing, and I like my sauce evenly distributed, so I'll stir pasta into the sauce before dumping it onto a plate or bowl).

Also, I've recently discovered a tasty thing. Starting with 1 volume of sauteed finely chopped jalapeno peppers and 1/2 volume of sauteed mushrooms (with salt and garlic to taste), add 1 volume of italian sausage tomato sauce (which I just purchase ready made because I'm not prepared to spend the time and effort to make a proper tomato sauce every day). Combine with pasta. Basically, a pasta sauce that is roughly 40% jalapeno by volume is amazing. Although I also dilute it with unrelated vegetables for nutritional purposes (broccoli and spinach, mostly).

[Shinotsa]

From what I hear putting oil in the water for pasta is a waste, and in almost all cases it is easier and less of a waste to just put some on the pasta after. I don't even have to use oil at all. When cooking for a few people and using one of the pot/strainer hybrid pots it is easier to just rest the strainer pot on the other one to drain, and then dunk the noodles back in the water occasionally when you have to grab some more.

Does anyone know the actual name for one of those pot/strainer combination thingamajigs? I've never felt so much like I'm missing a word that I should have learned ten years ago.

[nenjin]

Colander.

From what I hear putting oil in the water for pasta is a waste, and in almost all cases it is easier and less of a waste to just put some on the pasta after.

Unless you don't want raw oil on your pasta. Honestly I didn't think people analyzed it this closely. Whether you put it on before boil or after straining, you're going to have oil in your food either way.

[Bauglir]

Colander is only the strainer, though. The combination as a whole, I do not know.

[nenjin]

Mated colander pot is the only thing I'm really seeing.

[Caz]

Chicken fajitas. So much win.

[Flying Dice]

Mmm, just had a big sausage with lots of green peppers, onions, and banana peppers.

[Tellemurius]

i got this giant bottle of Yakisoba sauce, goddamn this shit is good on noodles.

[Osmosis Jones]

I generally try and make real food whenever I can... but sometimes nothing beats steaming a few frozen dim sims then slathering them with kecap manis (a really thick, syrup-like sweet soy sauce).

That, and instant mee goreng; for you poor northern hemisphere types, it's Indonesias answer to instant Ramen, and about a thousand times better (as long as you buy indo mie, and not the garbage super mi brand).


So, with that in mind... what's everyones guilty pleasures? The foods you know are cheap, dirty and oh so bad for you, but you just don't care 'cause they taste so good?

[Interus]

For quickest and least exciting?  Pizza rolls.  I got into a discussion the other day about microwaving vs. baking, and while I agree that they're 10X better in the oven, the microwave is way faster, I don't mind the sogginess, and they're freaking pizza rolls so I don't care if they're not perfectly prepared.  It's one of the few things I use my microwave for these days.  I don't even know why I like them so much, since I don't know if they even taste so good, but I just can't show restraint around 'em.

[Sirus]

So, with that in mind... what's everyones guilty pleasures? The foods you know are cheap, dirty and oh so bad for you, but you just don't care 'cause they taste so good?

Easy: french fries. Particularly McDonald's and In-n-Out, but I'm not picky D:

[Trapezohedron]

So, with that in mind... what's everyones guilty pleasures? The foods you know are cheap, dirty and oh so bad for you, but you just don't care 'cause they taste so good?

Easy: french fries. Particularly McDonald's and In-n-Out, but I'm not picky D:

Great, you're making me salivate at the thought of fries. Must find something to eat...

[Skyrunner]

I have so many!

Ramen! Not the Japanese kind, the hot spicy Jin, Shin, Samyang, or Snack ones.

Uh... Potato chips, original flavored with a side of potato chips.

French fries with ketchup. Not McDonald's, but Burger King or Five Guys.

Also Tabasco sauce. Must-have for pizzas.

[Haspen]

There's certain kind of chips, with onion&cheese flavor... so crunchy, but oh so unhealthy...

Also, I like eating them with a bread roll with some butter >.> <.<

[penguinofhonor]

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