My oldest son, Trevor, can cook two things - grilled cheese sandwiches and Fettuccine Alfredo. About once a month he will fix the fettuccine for us for dinner. Considering how rich it is, if he starts making it more often I'm going to wonder if he's hoping for an early inheritance.
Seriously, you can feel your arteries clogging just from reading the recipe.
Fettuccine Alfredo
(The Kitchen-Aid Cookbook)
2 cups heavy cream
1 cup butter
1 1/3 cups Parmesan cheese
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 lb. fettuccine noodles, cooked and drained
Place 1 1/2 cups cream and butter in a saucepan. Simmer over medium heat until butter melts. Remove from heat.
Add noodles to cream mixture and toss. Add remaining cream, Parmesan cheese, and salt, mix well. Return to heat and cook 1 minute. Toss gently to coat noodles thoroughly and serve immediately.
Posted by marybeth at January 28, 2005 09:11 AM Family , Food , FoodMy wee wifey and I use the term "Fred sauce" to identify what is all too often served in the place of this. What we have here, however, would make Alfredo proud. Just be sure to have a pepper grinder handy when you serve this.
"A" pepper grinder? We have the regular pepper grinder that's always on the table and add a pepper mill with white pepper and another with pink pepper. The last is for my daughter who, when given a choice, will always pick pink anything.
Posted by marybeth at January 31, 2005 12:41 AMYou're very, very close to true Fettucini Alfredo, which is prepared tableside. One traditional way of preparing it is thus:
Place softened butter on a warmed plate, along with 1/4-1/2c grated Reggiano, dump the the hot, just drained fettucini on top of that, add 1/4c heavy cream, toss for a minute and serve.
I've noticed a lot of people rinse their cooked pasta to remove the excess starch, and if you do that, you cool it too much to do this. The secret is to cook it in plenty of water.
Posted by michael edelman at January 31, 2005 03:40 PMThis recipe is a fine start.Allow me to add the finishing touch.
To please testosterinos & Texmexicanos in your family,simply add that finely chopped jalepen~o,and rename it,as I did.........Fettucine Bubba.