Pasta with Parmesan and Nutmeg

This is the easiest recipe this side of Dominoes, it’s pretty gourmet, and if you can boil water, you’re 83 percent there.

One thing I’ve found difficult about cooking is that it’s really hard to start when you’re hungry--you have to plan ahead.  Once you get started you get your momentum going, and there’s always ingredients to snack on, but it’s the getting started that proves difficult.  The inertia works against you at first.  Since I get lazy when I get hungry, I end up heating canned soup.

This evening, with...

Pasta Carbonara

This recipe loses the cream altogether, replacing it with white wine.

Pasta Carbonara

• 1/4 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• 1 small onion, diced
• 3 thin slices bacon
• 1/2 cup dry white wine
• 1 pound farfalle pasta
• 4 egg yolks
• small handful chopped Italian parsley
• 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• freshly ground black pepper
• 1/4 cup of pasta cooking water

Serves 4.

Recipe adapted from Cucina Rustica

Get a huge pot of salted water boiling...