I mean… so a hot pasta salad?
Mayonnaise is mostly oil and egg, which is kind of more akin to carbonara than Alfredo. That said, it has a sourness that isn’t going to mesh the same way-- basically, vinegar and/or lemon juice, which one generally wouldn’t want much of (if at all) in something meant to be creamy. Main reason I don’t particularly like it as a butter substitute in grilled cheese.
Knowing what goes into things like mayo, ketchup, Sriracha, etc, can work well when you’re in a pinch, though. It’s just harder to control the ratio of sugars, salts, and sour components so you have to offset that elsewhere.
Who the fuck eats pasta and rice?
Carbivores?
I thought they went extinct during the late Diabetassic
No, those were the Glucosaurs.
The carbivores roamed the Earth during the Carbiniferous time period, when the great noodle rains and ricevalances happened.
Praise the noodley appendage! Ramen
You know that there’s no real rules about food, you can eat whatever you want with whatever you want, you can make a cheese and mayo sandwich using weetbix as the bread if you want.
Your stomach will tell you when you’ve fucked up.
Brb, making a cheese and mayo on weetabix
You’re gonna need a big drink with that tho.
Tell it to r/ItalianFood
Nawww, then I have to go to Reddit… can’t I just offend the Italians on here?
Just avoid salting your pasta water. It’s easy.
Yeah I don’t salt my pasta water, I chuck a shit tonne of chicken stock in there.
Somewhere, an Italian grandmother has died of shock.
I’ma sorry.
Rice and vermicelli is rice and pasta, and it’s wildly common, especially the cheap bagged side dish stuff.
So I guess I do.
Struggle dinner
Not me. Not without mashed potatoes and gravy.
Not the most pressing question I had but we can start there I geuss.
That… doesn’t seem bad? No one would mind if he also put some vegetables in there and called it a pasta salad.
Pasta with cheese and mayonnaise seems like it could be alright. Rice is the weird one here imo
I’d try it. Like Mr cum fart pointed out the real crime is the pasta main with rice side
Hoenstly just add some green peas, a little black pepper and that would sound pretty good to me!
Wouldn’t that be added when the pasta is cold? I get the feeling OOP did this with hot pasta, possibly even heating the mayonnaise to make it more “like” Alfredo sauce.
Can’t be that bad, can it? I mean, pasta + cheesy cream sauce is a pretty tried and true combo.
Points for experimenting at least.
I’d try it.
Was seriously thinking the same thing man. I like to cook and have spent a lot of time working LOA jobs far from anywhere you can get good ingredients. Probably gonna try it tomorrow just to see.
Very few cheese sauces incorporate egg for a good reason. That assumes you give the poster the benefit of the doubt that they’re using real ingredients. Based off the pictures it’s more likely bagged pre-shredded cheese and jarred mayo which probably congreals into an emulsified hunk. Plus the amount of oil here will make you shit your pants
Carbonara is just egg and cheese.
Correct, it is one of the few
Very few cheese sauces incorporate egg for a good reason.
Don’t mind me, just putting way too much cheese in my carbonara again…
I’m a terrible cook personally, but my wife is fantastic at this stuff. Just FYI, you want a delicious cheese sauce, all you need is some milk or half & half, butter, and cheese. If you want it thicker, use less milk, or add a bit of cream cheese. Heat at a simmer and keep warm.
If you let it cool, it will firm up some and makes for a good cracker dip.
instructions unclear, I only had head cheese… it did not make a good sauce.
I’ve been in between paychecks and eaten worse than that.
Does no one know how to make a roux? If you already had the cheese, I’m sure you had maybe some butter or oil on hand and some flour.
Don’t even need flour for Alfredo. Its just parm, butter, heavy cream (or milk) and the drippings from the meat part (usually chicken). If not, add a splash of chicken stock.
Butter or oil sure. You might be surprised how many people do not keep flour handy.
Last time we bought flour we had moths coming out of it like a year later
you need to make more sauce!
Also you need glass/metal/plastic containers
𝅘𝅥𝅮that’s a mornay
Flour and butter are certainly cheaper than mayo
alfredo sauce?
isn’t that pasta water and butter?
Lotta food crime up in here. What the food feds doing about this?
They are in a food coma so nothing unfortunately
That meal is for a man who doesn’t want to shit in a week
