Eight minutes. That’s all it takes, and it beats any jar on the shelf! Even if you don’t cook, even if you’ve never made a sauce in your life, you can make this one. Butter, garlic, cream, parmesan. You whisk, and it’s done. Pile a TON of parmesan on top with fresh cracked pepper, throw in some shrimp if you feel like it, and watch the person across the table decide they’re coming back for dinner.<\/p>\n
This is the trap with cream sauces: they look rich, but without salt they taste like warm butter. Salt the pasta water properly, like the sea, and then salt the sauce again after tasting it. A dish built on flavours like these needs real seasoning, or all the cream and cheese in the world won’t give you anything. It’s genuinely creamy, genuinely cheesy, and it tastes exactly like it looks.<\/p>\n
The classic recipes don’t even include it, which I think is a shame. At my place the garlic spends a minute in the hot butter BEFORE the cream, just long enough to perfume the fat. That’s how it spreads through the whole sauce instead of staying as little crunchy bits. This sauce needs garlic, no question. And you’ll taste the nutmeg, so don’t skip it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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