Too many restaurants dub anything with an alfredo sauce as a “carbonara.” Even sandwich shops that pour the sauce on their sandwiches call their sandwiches carbonara creations when they’re anything but. Real pasta carbonara is pretty different from an alfredo sauce.
As a little girl, I loved having raw cucumbers as a snack. My mom usually just sliced them up and we ate them raw. We might have a little salt sprinkled on our cukes but that was pretty much it. As an adult, I’m finding out that it’s really fun to try new ways to eat cucumbers.
If you’ve gone to college, been down on your luck or simply like the taste of noodles, chances are you’ve had the good old standby, Ramen noodles, a time or two. People who are on a shoestring budget often eat their ramen plain, but once you’ve grown up or at least got a couple of bucks, it’s time to add a little nutrition and variety to your noodles once you’ve got the whole, you know, boiling them thing down.
If you’ve read the book One Pot Wonders, you know that there are tons of meals you can create that only require one pot. Whether you want to leave the slow cooker on all day or make a quick stir fry after work, the possibilities are only limited by your imagination.
